History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c75.357.6

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656, rules of conduct to be observed while one is in Gayā 655-656, Samārohaṇa, meaning of, in Aurṇavābha's explanation of the three padas of Viṣṇu 647, saṅkalpa acc to Raghunandana, before a bath in Phalgu 671n, seven gotras to whom śrāddha may be offered at G 662, six Gayās that confer *mukti* by worship and piṇḍadāna at them, enumerated 667; size of piṇḍas to be offered at Gayā-śrāddha 662, Ṣoḍaśīkarma at G described 672-673, special characteristics of śrāddhas at G 669-670, śrāddha may be performed at G. at all times, even in an intercalary month, even when Jupiter and Venus are invisible 370, 655, śrāddha at G. is made without arghya and āvāhana 661, śrāddha at Pretaśilā is the first and that at Akṣayavaṭa is the last and the rest of the śrāddhas should be performed in the order set out in Vāyupurāṇa or, if one does not know it, in any order 666, story of Gayāsura 656-657, story of the mace manufactured from the bones of an asura called Gada 660, story of Śilā, that was placed on the head of Gayāsura 657-658, story of Viśāla, a sonless king and of a person who offered one-sixth of his property to a trader and who was saved from remaining *preta* 666; *tarpaṇa* of ancestors at G. 671n; tax was levied on Kashmirians performing śrāddha at Gayā 571, the unmanifest forms (such as hills like Prabhāsa) and manifest forms (such as image of Ādi-Gadādhara) of Viṣṇu 660-661; though there are numerous tīrthas at Gayā, visit to three alone is absolutely necessary viz.