History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c73.t1.1.3

v5.c73.t1.1.3

That is called *daivika śrāddha* which is intended to propitiate gods (it is like nityaśrāddha and is performed on the 7th or 12th *tithi* or the like with sacrificial food) When a man going to a distant country on a pilgrimage or the like performs a śrāddha in which clarified butter is served (to brāhmaṇas) in abundance or when he comes back to his house, that is yātrā-śrāddha, That is called puṣṭiśrāddha which is performed for the health (or fattening) of the body (when taking some medicine for the purpose) or for the increase of one's wealth. Out of these⁸⁶⁰ twelve the principal ones are *pārvaṇa*, *ekoddiṣṭa*, *vṛddhi* and *sapiṇḍana*. There are works called Ṣaṇ-navati-śrāddha such as those of Śivabhaṭṭa, son of Govinda, and of Raghunātha. The 96 śrāddhas to be performed in a year are briefly enumerated in a verse⁸⁶¹ quoted in the note. They are: 12 śrāddhas on the 12 amāvāsyās in the year, the four śrāddhas on the Yugādi days (note 841 above), the fourteen śrāddhas on the Manvantarādi days (p. 375 above), the śrāddhas on 12 *saṅkrāntis* (i. e. the sun's apparent motion from one sign of the Zodiac to another), the 13 śrāddhas on the Yoga called Dhṛti (i. e. Vaidhṛti) and the 13 śrāddhas on the Vyatīpāta yoga, the 16 Mahālaya śrāddhas, the four Anvaṣṭakā days (according to Āśv. as noted on pp 359-360), the four Aṣṭakā days and the four days (i e. 7th of dark half of the months of Hemanta and Śiśira) of the day previous (to the Aṣṭakā).