History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c72.129

v5.c72.129

There was some difference of opinion as to the offering of water (*udakakriyā* or *udakadāna*) to the deceased by his *sapiṇḍas* and *samānodakas* Āśv gr. quoted above (p 209) speaks of offering water once, but the Sat. Śr 28 2. 72 and others prescribe that water mixed with sesame is offered thrice with joined hands on the day of death to the deceased after reciting his gotra and name and every day thereafter up to the 11th.⁵¹¹ Gaut Dh. S. 14. 38, Vas. 4 12 prescribe that water should be offered by *sapiṇḍas* to the deceased with their faces to the south on the first, third, seventh and ninth days of death and Haradatta says that in all 75 *añjalis* of water were to be offered (three on 1st day, 9 on 3rd, 30 on 7th and 33 on 9th), but that the usage in his country was that on the first day water was offered three times with joined hands and then one more *añjali* on each succeeding day from the 2nd. On the other hand, Viṣṇu Dh S. 19. 7 and 13, Pracetas, Paithīnasi (both quoted by Aparārka p. 874)