[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930) › v5.c73.t1.167 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c73.t1.167 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c73.t1.167 - **Language:** English ### [v5.c73.t1.167](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v5.c73.t1.167) It will be noticed that many of the fundamental conceptions of a pārvaṇa-śrāddha are very clearly brought out in the Śat. Br. Wearing the sacred thread on the right shoulder, afternoon as the proper time, cleansing the paddy only once, boiling the rice on the Dakṣiṇa fire, offering into the same fire two oblations to the gods first, the two formulas of presentation to Agni Kavyavāhana and to Soma Pitṛmat, drawing a line or furrow to the south of the Dakṣiṇa fire, laying down a firebrand, making the three paternal ancestors wash (\*avanejāna\*),⁹⁶¹ darbha grass severed from near the root, spreading the darbhas on the line or furrow and offering three piṇḍas to the three ancestors to regale themselves, turning away from the piṇḍas for a moment and then resuming his position and saying that the ancestors have regaled themselves, offering water for washing (pratyavanejana), pulling down the tuck and performing obeisance six times (and identifying the Fathers with seasons) and praying to the Fathers to bestow houses, smelling the boiled rice, throwing the darbhas and firebrand into the fire—these are the principal matters even now in the Pārvana-śrāddha performed by students of the Śukla Yajurveda, although several other details (such as the introduction of the mother's paternal ancestors) and some mantras are added. The Kātyāyana Śr. IV. 1. closely follows the Śat. Br., but adds certain details \*viz.\* he folds his hands and repeats the six mantras (Vāj. S. II. 32 'namo vaḥ pitaro rasāya' \*&c\*) throwing three threads on each piṇḍa with the mantra 'etadvaḥ' (Vāj. S. II. 32) or the woollen fringe of a garment or hair from the chest of the sacrificer when he is beyond fifty years of age, sprinkling water on the piṇḍas or on the ground near them with (Vāj. S II. 34)⁹⁶². - [Previous: v5.c73.t1.166](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v5.c73.t1.166) - [Next: v5.c73.t1.168](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v5.c73.t1.168) - [Up: v5.c73.t1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v5.c73.t1) ## Cites (3) - [Kātyāyanaśrautasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.srauta.katyayana-school.katyayana.4.1) — Kātyāyana (Vājasaneyi sūtrakāra), Sanskrit - [Śuklayajurvedasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.suklayajur*vajasaneyi.2.34) — Sanskrit - [Śatapathabrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.satapatha) — Yājñavalkya & Śāṇḍilya (Vedic teacher), Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v5.c73.t1.167](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v5.c73.t1.167) · Pramāṇa