History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c90.146

v7.c90.146

¹⁴⁰¹ The मिताक्षरा has a long discussion on Yāj III. 289 about the expiations for eating food tainted by various defects About eating food in śrāddhas of various kinds it quotes several authorities as follows: हारीतेनाप्युक्तम्। एकादशाहे भुक्त्वात्र शश्वयने तथा। उपोष्य त्रिदिनंस्नात्वा कूष्माण्डैर्जुहुयाद्धृतम्॥ इति। विष्णुनाप्युक्तम्। प्राजापत्यं नवश्राद्धे पञ्चगव्यं द्विनासिके॥ इदं चापद्विषयम्। अनापदि तु—'चान्द्रायणं नवश्राद्धे प्राजापत्यं तु मिश्रके। एकोद्दिष्टे पुराणेषु प्राजापत्यं विधीयते॥ इति हारीतोक्तं द्रष्टव्यम्। प्राजापत्यं तु मिश्रके इत्येतदाद्यमासिकविषयं द्रष्टव्यम्। (*Continued on next page*) (*Continued from last page*) Srāddhas are of three kinds, नवश्राद्ध (up to ten days after death), मिश्र or नवमिश्र (performed after ten days up to one year) and पुराण (those performed after a year from a person’s death). The word पुराणेषु means पुराणेषु श्राद्धेषु. हारीत provides प्रायश्चित्त for eating the food in the three kinds of श्राद्धs, नव, मिश्र and पुराण. The word पुराणेषु in that verse of हारीत has nothing to do with Purāṇa works. Vide H of Dh vol IV p. 262 notes 591a and 593 for more details about the three kinds of śrāddhas