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(15.) “Likewise its setting on the eighth of the new moon. Therefore the nychthemeron of the bright half, in the middle of the day). The forefathers is a complete lunar month, the day midnight of the manos is said (to be on the full. beginning at the time of half moon, when the moon day."
light on the moon's body begins to increase and the (16.) “And at the end of the dark half is stated night beginning at the time of half moon when her (to be) thoir midday. Hence the funeral oblations light begins to wane ......... The day of are offered to them at the end of the dark half of this nychthemeron extends from the last quarter the month."
of a month to the first quarter of the succeeding month; the night from the first to the second quarter of one identical month. The totality of these two halves is the nychthemeron of the forefathers. Thus the subject is explained by the author of Vishnu-Dharma both at large and in detail, but afterwards he treats it a second time with very little understanding, and identifies the day of the forefathers with the black half of the month and their night with the white half, whilst the correct statement is that which is just men. tioned. This view is also confirmed by their custom of offering food to the forefathers on the day of conjunction, for they explain noon to be the time of taking food. For this reason they offer food to the forefathers at the same time
when they themselves take it." VIL V. Dh. I. 73, 18-19, 356.-40.
समाग[श] तेवशभिर्दिव्यैस्तिष्ययुगं स्मृतम् । द्विगुणं वापरं ज्ञेयं वेता त्रिगुणमुच्यते ।।१७।। चतुर्गुणं कृतं प्रोक्तं पिण्डितं चान्दसंख्यया । चतुर्युगं सहस्राणि राम द्वादश कीर्तितम् ॥१९॥ चतुर्युगैकसप्तस्या मन्वन्तरमिहोच्यते ॥ ३५ ।। कल्पस्तु राम विज्ञेयो मनवस्तु चतुर्दश ।
आदिमध्यान्तरालेषु मनूनां भृगुसत्तम ।। ३६ ।। कृतमानप्रमाणेन संधिर्भवति मानद ।
चतुर्युगसहसं तु कल्पमाहुर्मनीषिणः ॥ ३७॥ कल्पश्च दिवसः प्रोक्तो ब्रह्मणः परमेष्ठिनः। तावती च निशा तस्य यस्यां शेते स भार्गव ।। ३८॥ एवंविधैरहोरात्वैर्दिनमासाय संख्यया ।
पूर्ण वर्षशतं सर्व ब्रह्मा भार्गव जीवति ॥ ३९ ॥ 16 Berani's discussion shows that in his copy of the the night extends from the first to the second quarter of Vishnudharmittara the words krishna, dark,' and one identical month. It ought to be to the third quarter. fukla, bright.' in versos 14 and 15a had exchanged His remark that the same matter is discussed again places and possibly also the words ardharátra and me. in the Vishudharmóttara is true. The 142nd chapter dhyákna in verses 150 and 166. These discrepancies can of the first Kanda gives the times for the Sraddhas. however only be accidental mistakes, such as have han. They do not differ from the ordinary ones, and, though pened also in the Mahabharata, XII. 232, 16, where the there is no distinct statement to the effect that the wame error about the day and the night of the manes dark half of the month is the day of the fathers, any occurs. For all authorities from the earliest Dharma intelligent reader may gather as much from the tenor and Grihyasutras to the latest Prayogas agroe that the of the rules, the first of which enjoins that Sraddhas manes wake during the dark half of the month and that Are to be offered on the new-moon day. There is the Sraddhas must as a rulo be offered during that further a third passage on this subject in the Paitamals. period, not on the full-moon day, as Berdni asserts. Siddhanta UpakaraŅAdhyAya; OMASTTTT: I got Pull-moon Braddhas are only exceptionally permissible in the month of Magha, which is sacred to the manes.
कृष्णाष्टम्यामर्कोदयः । अमावास्यायां मध्याहः । शुक्लारस्याA minor slip in BerOnl'e discussion is the statement that
9: THIETTY: "The day and
