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VASISHTHA.
XI, 30
30. (But) how can the oblation to the gods be made if he feeds a single Brâhmana at a funeral sacrifice ? Let him take (a portion) of each (kind of) food that has been prepared (and put it) into a vessel ;'
31. Let him place it in the sanctuary of a god and afterwards continue (the performance of) the funeral sacrifice. Let him offer that food in the fire or give it (as alms) to a student.'
32. “As long as the food continues warm, as long as they eat in silence, as long as the qualities of the food are not declared (by them), so long the manes feast on it.'
33. The qualities of the food must not be declared as long as the (Brahmanas who represent the) manes are not satiated. Afterwards when they are satisfied, they may say, “ Beautiful is the sacrificial
food.”'
34. “But an ascetic who, invited to dine at a sacrifice of the manes or of the gods, rejects meat, shall go to hell for as many years as the slaughtered beast has hairs.
35. •Three (things are held to) sanctify a funeral sacrifice, a daughter's son, the midday, and sesamum grains; and they recommend three (other things) for it, purity, freedom from anger and from precipitation.'
36. “The eighth division of the day, during which the sun's (progress in the heavens) becomes slow, one must know to be midday; what is (then) given to the manes lasts (them) for a very long time.'
37. “The ancestors of that man who has inter
32. Identical with Vishnu LXXXII, 20, and Manu III, 237. 34. Manu V, 35. 35. Identical with Manu III, 235. 37. Vishnu LXIX, 2-4.
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