History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.734

v6.c82.734

Certain matters were to be done only in malamāsa such as the gift ¹⁰⁶⁰ of 33 apūpas (cakes) every day to brāhmaṇas or at least once in the intercalary month; certain acts were not to be done in adhimāsa, but only in the *śuddha* 1060a month, such as the sinking of wells, construction of tanks, solemn sacrifices, the mahādānas and vratas Certain matters can be done in adhimāsa as well as in śuddha-māsa ¹⁰⁶¹ e. g rites on a pregnancy (such as *puṁsavana*), taking interest on money lent, wages of workmen for fixed periods, monthly śrāddha (on amāvāsyā), daily gifts, bath at a holy place, *japa* (muttering mantras), homa with barley grains or rice or sesame, rites on the birth of a child, funeral rites, *nava-śrāddhas*, śrāddha on 13th tithi with Maghā-nakṣatra, the sixteen śrāddhas, bath and śrāddha and gifts and *japa* on lunar or solar eclipse, obligatory and *naimittika* acts; these may be done in malamāsa also A great deal of discussion is held on śrāddhas in malamāsa by Hemādri on Kāla (pp 56-63), Malamāsatattva (pp. 841-856), Nirṇayasindhu (pp. 11-15), Samayaprakāśa pp. 151-155 This is passed over for reasons of space For some remarks on the śrāddha of a person dying in an intercalary month, vide H of Dh. vol. IV. pp. 546-547