History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c75.980.9

v5.c75.980.9

piṇḍas of cooked rice or flour were not to be offered in śrāddha performed on equinoctial days, on saṅkrānti, on solstitial days, on ekādaśī or trayodaśī or on Maghā and Kṛttikā nakṣatras 481, pitṛs assuming aerial forms were supposed to hover round and enter the brāhmaṇas invited at ś 390, 401, 407, pitryā verses are each repeated loudly with ābāva at the end of ś. rite 502, place that is full of insects or is arid or burnt by fire or terrific in aspect or gives out painful sounds or fetid smell is unfit for ś 379, points in which modern Madras manuals differ from those used in Western India 504; polluted by asuras is purified by sesame and by tying a goat near the place 419; poor man may offer, instead of sumptuous food, uncooked corn, or some vegetables or some slight fee or a few grains of sesame to a brāhmaṇa with water or may offer grass to a cow or raise his arms and repeat loudly that he has nothing 425-426, practice of presenting the clothes, ornaments, bedstead, the horse and the like used by the deceased to the brāhmaṇa invited for śrāddha and also of donating an umbrella and sandals on the completion of śrāddha 535, praise of the importance and benefits of, 349-351, pratisāṁvatsarika or pratyābdika ś 529-530, prāyaścittas prescribed by smṛtis for dining at a pārvaṇaśrāddha, or vṛddhiśrāddha, sapiṇḍana and other śrāddhas 387-388, 548; prāyaścittas prescribed for partaking of food at Navaśrāddhas, monthly śrāddhas and yearly ones 548;