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LXXV, 5.
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5. He must fill the three trenches for the men with water mixed with food.
6. (He must fill) the three trenches for the women with milk mixed with food.
7. (And he must fill up) each triad of trenches singly with sour milk, meat, and milk.
8. After having filled the trenches), he must mutter the Mantra, ‘May this (food) be imperishable for ye men and for ye women.'
LXXV. 1. He who makes a Sraddha-offering while his father is alive, must offer it to those persons to whom his father offers (his Srâddhas).
2. (If he offers a Sraddha) while both his father and grandfather are alive, (he must offer it to those persons) to whom his grandfather (offers his Sraddhas).
3. While his father, grandfather, and greatgrandfather are alive, he must offer no Sraddha 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 Satra 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.
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