Institutes of Vishnu — LXXV.

LXXV. | Internet Sacred Text ArchiveSacred Texts Hinduism Index Previous Next # LXXV. 1. He who makes a *S*râddha-offering while his father is alive, must offer it to those persons to whom his father offers (his *S*râddhas). 2. (If he offers a *S*râddha) while both his father and grandfather are alive, (he must offer it to those persons) to whom his grandfather (offers his *S*râddhas). 3. While his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather are alive, he must offer no *S*râddha at all. 4. He whose father is dead (but whose grandfather is alive), must first of all offer a ball of rice to his father, after that, two balls to the two ancestors coming before his grandfather (or to his great-grandfather and to his fourth ascendant). 5. He whose father and grandfather are dead (but whose great-grandfather is alive), must first offer two balls to those two, and then offer one ball to the grandfather of his grandfather. [7. Nand. renders this Sûtra differently, in accordance with his own theory regarding the number of the trenches. [LXXV. 1. M. III, 220.--4. M. III, 221.--7. Y. I, 228.] 6. He whose grandfather is dead (but whose father and great-grandfather are alive), must give one ball to his grandfather and two balls to the father and grandfather of his great-grandfather. 7. An intelligent man must offer *S*râddhas to his maternal grandfather, and to the father and grandfather of him, in the same way (as to his paternal ancestors), duly modifying the Mantras. But the *S*râddhas addressed to other relatives, (uncles, brothers, and the like, must be performed) without Mantras. Next: LXXVI.