Zend Avesta Part 01

SR No.: 007671
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Darmesteter
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1895
Total Pages: 2695
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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LXXIII, 20.
SRÂDDHAS.
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ones (at the offering addressed to the manes), and offer it first to the two Brâhmanas facing the east (who have been invited to the Sraddha of the gods).
14. Afterwards he must offer it to the (three) Brâhmanas facing the north (who represent his three ancestors, addressing himself) to his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, (and calling out) their name and race.
15. While the Brâhmanas are eating the food, let him mutter (the three Mantras), 'Whatever (trickles down) through my fault,' With days and nights 1,' and 'Whatever (limb) of yours, Agni.'
16. And let him mutter) the Itihâsa (Epics), Purâna (Legends), and Dharmasastra (Institutes of the Sacred Law).
17. Near the leavings let him deposit upon blades of Kusa grass with the ends turned towards the south one ball of rice for his father, while saying, 'Earth is (like) a spoon, imperishable (satisfaction).'
18. With the Mantra, 'Air is (like) a spoon, imperishable (satisfaction,' let him deposit) a second ball for his grandfather.
19. With the Mantra, 'Heaven is (like) a spoon, imperishable (satisfaction,' let him deposit) a third ball for his great-grandfather.
20. With the Mantra, 'Those ancestors who
14. The formula of this invocation, according to Nand., is this, • To NN., my ancestor, of the Gotra NN., who is like a Vasu, (I offer this food, svadhâ namah.' The use of the particle ka, according to the same, implies that the maternal grandfather and the other maternal ancestors must also be addressed, as ordained below (LXXV, 7).
15. 'A similar Mantra is quoted, Sânkh. III, 13, 5.
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