History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c51.137

v3.c51.137

²⁶¹⁹ Vide note 2435 for the mantras. Āśv. and Lāṭ. II. 10. 4 say the mantra is ‘अत्र पितरो मादयध्वं यथाभागमावृषायध्वमिति ।.’ Kāt. X. 5. 11 notes that the procedure of Piṇḍapitṛyajña from piṇḍadāna to smelling the piṇḍas is observed but without water and (in X. 5. 12) gives it as his opinion that it is really the yajamāna’s ancestors that are offered pieces of the puroḍāśa and not those of the camasādhvaryus.