History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c75.713

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tion of the wives of paternal ancestors in p, 475, some verses from the purāṇas are to be recited, while brāhmaṇas are engaged in dinner at p 445; some writers proposed that nine piṇḍas should be offered, three to *pitṛvarga*, three to *mātṛvarga* and three to *mātāmahavarga* 508n; three *āhutis* are to be offered according to some and two according to others in Dakṣiṇāgni or smārta fire or on brāhmaṇas' hand 443n; three piṇḍas are prescribed for paternal ancestors and three for mothers' paternal ancestors by Kātyāyana and Gobhila 472-473; thumbs of brāhmaṇas invited for śrāddha in p should be moved in the food served in the plates 444, 467; *tila* water offered in the midst of mango trees serves two purposes 449n, vaiśvadeva brāhmaṇas are to be seated facing east and pitrya ones facing north 458; vaiśvadeva brāhmaṇas have precedence in all items except two viz. in washing the hand smeared with remnants of food and the final send-off at the end of śrāddha 458, Vedic works refer generally to the three paternal ancestors as the *devatās* of p. and not to any other relatives, male or female, 380, 472, verses called saptavyādha are to be recited at p while brāhmaṇas are dīning 445, Viśvedevas Purūrava or Purūravas and Ārdrava are the two to be invoked in p 457, water is offered to pitṛs in p with the Pitṛtīrtha 435n, when the wives of ancestors came to be associated with them in p cannot be satisfactorily solved, but they had certainly become associated in the sūtra period 474-476; where paternal ancestors are honoured there maternal ancestors must be honoured acc. to Dhaumya and others 473, where yavas are employed in the daiva part of the p, rite, sesame are to be employed for all purposes in the *pitṛya* part 442n, whether daily *vaiśvadeva* and *balihoma* should be performed before or after p. 452, wives of paternal ancestors i e the mother, paternal grand-mother and paternal great-grandmother were not associated with their husbands in the times of the Vedas (except probably in one passage of Vāj S) and Brāhmanas and in almost all sūtras 472