History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c72.354

v5.c72.354

It is provided in the Gṛhya kārikas, the Smṛtyarthasāra (p 94), Dharmasindhu (p. 435) and other works that if a man⁶⁴² went to a distant country and no news of his being alive was heard, then his son (or other relative), after the lapse of 20 years from the time when no news was heard if the man went away when he was young or 15 years if he left when he was of middle age or 12 years if he left later in life, should perform three cāndrāyaṇas or thirty kṛcchras, prepare an effigy of the man with kuśas (or with palāsa leaves), should burn it and then observe āśauca and perform śrāddhas &c.