History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c95.339
History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c95.339
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It is difficult to reconcile the doctrine of Karma and punarjanma with the system of Śrāddhas in which balls of rice are offered to the three paternal ancestors of the performer of śrāddha This subject has been dealt with in H. of Dh. vol. IV. pp 335-339. The offering of balls of rice to the spirits of the departed male ancestors was in vogue in the times of the Veda probably and even before the Vedas and the theory of Karma and Punar-janma arose later and as people were not prepared to give up the theory of śrāddhas, they kept both.