Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29): Sâṅkhâyana-Grihya-Sûtra: IV, 2

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KHANDA 2.

1 1 Now (follows) the Ekoddishta (i.e. the Srâddha ceremony directed to a single dead person),

2. With one strainer,

3 3. One (pot of) Argha-water,

4. One lump (of flour).

5 5. No inviting (takes place here), nor the putting

8. And (then) omission of the fourth one.

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Footnotes

108:1 2, 1. Eka uddishto yasmin srâddhe tad ekoddishtam (Nâr.). This is the kind of Srâddha sacrifice which is to be performed for one twice-born during the first year after his death; see Manu III, 247; Yâgñavalkya I, 250.

108:3 This rule about the Argha water corresponds to those given with regard to the Pârvana Srâddha in the Sûtras 3 and 4 of the preceding chapter.

108:5 'Because the âvâhana (inviting) is forbidden here, it follows 109:8 After the Ekoddishta Srâddha has been performed for a dead person during the first year after his death, he is to be admitted, by the Sapindîkarana ceremony, among the other Manes, and receives thenceforward his Pinda together with them at the ordinary Pârvana Srâddha. As the ritual of this Srâddha requires that the number of the 'fathers' worshipped should be three, the accession of a new person makes necessary the omission of the pra-pra-pitâmaha, who has now become fourth among the fathers.