{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe07/sbe07077.htm","path":"hin/sbe07/sbe07077.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe07/sbe07077.htm","text":"1. He who makes a Sr\u00e2ddha-offering while his father is alive, must offer it to those persons to whom his father offers (his Sr\u00e2ddhas).\n2. (If he offers a Sr\u00e2ddha) while both his father and grandfather are alive, (he must offer it to those persons) to whom his grandfather (offers his Sr\u00e2ddhas).\n3. While his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather are alive, he must offer no Sr\u00e2ddha at all.\n4. 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).\n5. 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.\n[7. Nand. renders this S\u00fbtra differently, in accordance with his own theory regarding the number of the trenches.\n[LXXV. 1. M. III, 220.--4. M. III, 221.--7. Y. I, 228.]\n6. 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.\n7. An intelligent man must offer Sr\u00e2ddhas 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 Sr\u00e2ddhas addressed to other relatives, (uncles, brothers, and the like, must be performed) without Mantras.","title":"LXXV.","type":"page"}