History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c72.432

v5.c72.432

The Antyeṣṭipaddhati of Nārāyaṇabhaṭṭa describes (on folio 187) Nārāyaṇabali rite at greater length than in the Mitākṣarā. One or two details may be pointed out. Five kalaśas (jars) are to be placed over a quantity of rice or *yavas*, then filled with water, then have the three mantras 'Āpo hi ṣṭhā' (Rg. X 9. 1-3) repeated over them, then copper plates are to be placed over them on which five images of Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Śiva, Yama and the deceased are to be drawn and the worship of these five is to be performed respectively with the Puruṣasūkta (Rg. X. 90), Ṛg. X. 121 1-10, Rg. I. 43. 1 (= Tai. Ā. X. 17), Ṛg X. 14. 13 and the name and gotra of the deceased, sixteen oblations of cooked rice are to be offered to Nārāyaṇa with the sixteen verses of the Puruṣasūkta (Ṛg X. 90). Ten piṇḍas⁶⁸⁵ are to be offered on *darbhas* to the deceased after repeating his name and gotra (as stated in the note below). After the ten piṇḍas are cast in a river, there is *tarpaṇa* of the deceased sixteen times with the sixteen stanzas of the Puruṣasūkta. Then *bali* is offered separately to Viṣṇu, Brahmā, Śiva and Yama with his servants.