History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c75.980.6

v5.c75.980.6

373, 381, non-Āryans (called *dasyus* in the Mahābhārata) like Yavanas, Mlecchas, Kirātas, Śakas, Cīnas may perform śrāddhas 364, no legal machinery exists to enforce the liability to perform śrāddha of the deceased whose wealth was inherited by an heir 510, no piṇḍadāna on certain śrāddhas, such as āmaśrāddha and on *yugādi* days 481, no scrutiny should be made about a brāhmaṇa of whom nothing is known, since *siddhas* roam on the earth as brāhmaṇas 389; no ś. to be offered to father or mother if he or she became a mleccha (by forcible or voluntary conversion) and the piṇḍa to be offered to him or her should be offered to Viṣṇu 483, no ś. for deceased ascetics except pārvaṇa on the 11th day after death and every year afterwards 519; not to be performed on 14th of the dark half of a month for anyone except for those killed by poison or snakes or beasts or in battle or by brāhmaṇa's wrath 370n; number of brāhmaṇas to be invited did not depend on the means of the inviter, but on whether he could honour them all well 403, number of brāhmaṇas to be invited differed acc. to the views of different authors and works 402-404, observances for inviter and invitee 410-412;