History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c75.981.4

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Vṛddhiśrāddha, meaning of, 359n, and it is same as Nāndīśrāddha 527, was offered to three immediate ancestors, father, grandfather, great-grandfather 365, water, quality of, to be employed in *ś* 415; what food is of the nature of *havis* and fit for *ś.* 412, what men and women should engage in cooking *ś* food 462-466; when *ś* is performed at a tīrtha the piṇḍas should be cast into the sacred water, otherwise they may be cast into fire or water or handed over to a brāhmaṇa or may be allowed to be eaten by a cow or goat 480-481; who are entitled to offer śrāddha (*śrāddhādhikārin*) 364-365, who are *lepabhājaḥ* or *lepabhāginaḥ* 483, who are the deities of *ś*, the three male ancestors or Vasus, Rudras and Ādityas 348; whoever took the wealth of the deceased had to offer śrāddha and piṇḍas to the deceased even under the Mitākṣarā system 364, 510; who should be invited for śrāddha dinner according to the -gṛhya and dharma sūtras 384-385, who was the real recipient of the offerings made in śrāddha viz. the brāhmaṇas or pitṛs 460, women and śūdras should get *ś.* performed through a priest or they may themselves perform *ś* without mantras but only mention the name and gotra of the deceased 365, word śrāddha does not occur in any authentic and ancient vedic work, but only in the Kaṭhopaniṣad 349-50, worship of ṛtus (seasons) in *ś* provided for in some digests 433n.