History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c75.712.4

v5.c75.712.4

method of padārthānusamaya is the rule, but sometimes that of kāṇḍānusamaya has to be followed 442n, most of the fundamental conceptions and items of p as performed in modern times are clearly brought out e.en in the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa 431-432, names and gotras of the ancestors should be mentioned in offering pādya, arghya, gandha, puṣpa etc, 443n, 449, 451, number of āhutis in agnaukaraṇa differs in different works 462; order in which the brāhmaṇas invited at p are to be dismissed at the end 447, performer of p and brāhmaṇas invited at t should abstain from sexual intercourse on the night of the śrāddhaday 448, performer collects portions from all kinds of food cooked for śrāddha, puts water over them and spreads them on darbhas for the benefit of various deceased persons 450-51, performer has to refer to ancestors in a certain order about his relationship to them, their names and gotras and the case relation in which the words are to be used 459, piṇḍa is offered to each ancestor after mentioning his gotra, his relationship to performer and name (all in vocative) 476; piṇḍas should be offered to male ancestors near the remains of the food eaten by the brāhmaṇas and the procedure mentioned in piṇḍapitṛyajña is to be followed 446, 451, piṇḍas were to be separately offered to mother's paternal ancestors 478; procedure of p. acc. to Aśv. gr 434-438, procedure of p. acc to Śrāddhasūtra of Kātyāyana 439; procedure of p acc to Yājñavalkya-smṛti 440-448; procedure of p acc.