History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c75.907

v5.c75.907

Sapiṇḍīkaraṇa or Sapiṇḍana śrāddha 520-525; conflict of views about mother's s. 524; could be performed at the end of a year after death or at the end of four, six or eleven months or three fortnights or on 12th day after death or on the happening of a lucky event (birth of a son or marriage) 520, different times after death prescribed for this śrāddha in ancient works 520ff, even if s be performed within one year, still for one year food and a jar of 'water should be given to a brāhmaṇa 521, four piṇḍas are to be prepared, one for the *preta* and three for his deceased paternal ancestors and then the performer divides the preta-piṇḍa into three parts and puts each third into each of the three piṇḍas with the two mantras 'ye samānā ' 522, mantras differ in different works 523-524, means the reception of a deceased person into the community of *pitṛs* to whom piṇḍas are offered 520, navaśrāddhas, 16 śrāddhas and s must be performed by one heir alone, though there be many heirs, but after a year śrāddha may be performed by each heir separately 526; no auspicious rite like marriage can be performed until sapiṇḍana of a deceased family member has been performed 525, no sapiṇḍana for a person unless he had upanayana performed 524-525, no sapiṇḍana for those who left off their faith or committed suicide or became ascetics or were born of mixed unions, or for patita women 525; number of brāhmaṇas to be invited 522, on completion of s the preta ceases to be so and becomes one of the pitṛs 523, of woman who became a *satī* or was made a putrikā or was married in the āsura form 524, partakes of both ekoddiṣṭa (applying to preta) and pārvaṇa (applying to three ancestors) 523, procedure of, described 522 ff, saṅkalpa in s 521n, this śrāddha and ekoddiṣṭa-śrāddha are performed for women also 524; to be performed in the afternoon 523; twelfth day is generally commended for several reasons 520-521, twelfth day after death is the only day for s for śūdras, acc. to some 521, two meanings of the word *preta* 523, was to be performed after the sixteen śrāddhas 520, 521, widow dying sonless has no s performed for her, but only ekoddiṣṭa 524