History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c75.357.5

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are mentioned in Vanaparva chapters 77 and 82, occupies a unique place in the hearts of all pious Hindus even now 643, on entering G pilgrim bathes in Phalgu river, performs tarpaṇa and śrāddha and on same day performs śrāddha on Preta-śilā and offers piṇḍas whereby the persons for whom this is done become free from the position of *preta* 662-663, one may offer piṇḍa to oneself but without sesame 670, one may offer to pitṛs at G piṇḍas of *pāyasa*, boiled rice, barley flour, fruits, roots, sesame cake, jaggery or honey 653, order in which several tīrthas at G are to be visited 662ff, *padas* (stone slabs with foot-prints thereon) at G and śrāddhas at them 661n, 676, pañcatīrthī (five tīrthas) of Gayā and rites there 663n, 675, passed through several vicissitudes 650, pilgrim should gratify the Gayā brāhmaṇas 656, Pretaśilā adjoins the west bank of Phalgu river and is to the north of Gayā 671, procedure of offering a piṇḍa to oneself while living 670, procedure of śrāddha, acc. to Vāyupurāṇa 653-656, procedure of Gayā śrāddha acc. to Raghunandana 671-677, Rāmatīrtha (i e Prabhāsa-hrada), bath, śrāddha and piṇḍas at, free pitṛs of pilgrim from condition of being *preta* 674, references to Gayā from Ṛgveda downwards 645-647, rites from the first to the seventh day of entering Gayā described 672-676, river Vaitaraṇī in G.