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Numerous procedures are laid down by various works for various sraddhas. The Brahma Purana gives the following details regarding the procedure of the performance of sraddha. A sraddha should be performed with the help of a brahmin well-versed in the vedas (220.50). The food was first offered to the pitys. Then the five mantras, viz. Trimadhu, Irisuparna, Brhadaranyaka, Saurasukta and Purusasukta were recited. Then food was given to the Brahmins. After taking the dinner, the brahmins should break the vow of silence observed by them during the dinner. After that the vessel of pinda was given to Chaya. The food was divided into two parts and each part was again divided into three parts. Then the Varahabhumi was made clean and kusa grass was spread on it. Then a pinda of fragrant flowers, herbs and kusa grass should be offered with devotion 115 San. Gr. III.11, Kausitaki gr. III.11, Kathaka gr. 59,1; Paraskera gr., III.9, Visnu Dh. Su. - Ch.86. 1-20. sesame,

733 to grandfather. The food remaining after the pindas should be given to lepbhuks. Then clothes which are . white, clean and two inches long should be given in dana. Then the water mixed with sesame should be offered first to pitrs and then to the gods. After that the aghamarsana sukta should be muttered *k thrice. After releasing the pavitraka, the oblation consisting of milk, honey, sesame, etc. should be offered and then the daksina in silver should be given to brahmins after bowing down to them (219.65-91). Further, it is said that the offering of kusa grass should be given on the ground outside and near water to one who had died recently and the rites of collecting the bones and others should be done on the third day after death (220.61,62). the nitya karmans should be performed and the dinner should be served to the guests, Some suggests that this ceremony is performed in honour of the pitrs, whereas some say that it has no connection with the pitrs. After giving dinner to Brahmins, Some say that a separate paka should be prepared for the pitrs, while some people say that all the rites should be performed with the paka prepared first, and that there is no necessity to prepare a separate paka (220.121-126). Just as out of many cows, the calf finds out its mother, similarly, the go food given to Brahmins in sraddhas reaches the Jiva. The deceased get the satisfaction through sraddha which

734 116 cannot be had by name, gotra, etc. The following mantrashould be recited at the beginning and end of every sraddha. It should be recited with concentration at the time of pindadana also (220.140-145). Elsewhere it is said that in the case of one whose father is dead but the grandfather is living, one should offer the pins to the father. grandfather should be given a dinner and then a pinda should be offered to the great grandfather. It is prescribed The that the pinda should be offered to the dead and the dinner should be given to the living. In these conditions, the sapindikarana and the parvana sradana are not performed (220.207-209). If among the sapindas, after the death of one, if another death occurs immediately, then the impurification of the second one ceases together with that of the first and therefore the sraddha of both the persons should be performed within the remaining days of the impurification of the first (221.154-156).