and falt unprepared by art, are held things fit, in * their own nature, for the last mentioned offering. 258. Having difmiffed the invited Bráhmens, ↑ keeping his mind attentive, and his speech suppreffed, let him, after an ablution, look toward ' the south, and ask these blessings of the Pitris : 259. "May generous givers abo ind in our house! may the fcriptures be studied, and progeny increase in it! may faith never depart from us! and may we have much to bestow on the ' needy !"

260. Thus having ended the fráddha, let him cause a cow, a priest, a kid, or the fire, to deyour what remains of the cakes; or let him caft them into the waters.

261. Some make the offering of the round 'cakes after the repaft of the Brábmens; fome 'cause the birds to eat what remains, or caft it into water or fire.

262. Let a lawful wife, ever dutiful to her lord, and constantly honouring his ancestors, eat 'the middlemoft of the three cakes, or that offered to his paternal grandfather, with due ceremonies, praying for offspring:

263. So may fhe bring forth a fon, who will be long lived, famed, and ftrong minded, wealthy, having numerous defcendants, endued with the best of qualities, and performing all 'duties religious and civil.

264. THEN, having wafhed both his hands and fipped water, let him prepare fome rice for his paternal kinfmen; and, having given it them with due reverence, let him prepare food alfo for his maternal relations.

265. Let the refidue continue in its place, until the Bráhmens have been difmiffed; and

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then let him perform the remaining domestick • facraments.

266. WHAT fort of oblations, given duly to the manes, are capable of fatisfying them, for a long time or for eternity, I will now declare without omission.

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The ancestors of men are fatisfied a whole month with tila, rice, barley, black ⚫ lentils or vetches, water, roots, and fruit, given ⚫ with prescribed ceremonies;

268. Two months, with fish; three months, with venifon; four, with mutton; five, with the • flesh of fuch birds, as the twice born may eat

269. Six months, with the flesh of kids; feven, with that of spotted deer; eight, with that of the deer, or antelope, called éna; nine, with • that of the ruru :

270. Ten months are they satisfied with the flesh of wild boars and wild buffalos; eleven, with that of rabbits or hares, and of tortoises; 271. A whole year with the milk of cows, and food made of that milk; from the flesh of the long eared white goat, their fatisfaction en• dures twelve years.

272. The potherb cálafáca, the fish mabáfalca, or the diodon, the flesh of a rhinoceros, or of an 'iron-coloured kid, honey, and all fuch forest grains as are eaten by hermits, are formed for their fatisfaction without end.

273. Whatever pure food, mixed with honey, a man offers on the thirteenth day of the moon, in the feafon of rain, and under the lunar afte• rifm Maghà, has likewife a ceafeless duration.

274. "Oh! may that man, Jay the manes, be born in our line, who may give us milky food, * with honey and pure butter, both on the thirteenth

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275. Whatever a man, endued with strong faith, piously offers, as the law has directed, becomes a perpetual unperishable gratification to his ancestors in the other world:

276. The tenth and fo forth, except the * fourteenth, in the dark half of the month, are the lunar days moft approved for facred obfequies as they are, so are not the others.

277. He, who does honour to the manes, on even lunar days, and under even lunar ftations, enjoys all his defires; on odd lunar days, and * under odd lunar afterisms, he procures an illuftrious race.

278. As the latter or dark half of the month furpaffes, for the celebration of obfequies, the former, or bright half, fo the latter half of the day furpaffes, for the fame purpose, the former < half of it.

279. The oblation to ancestors must be duly made, even to the conclufion of it with the diftribution to the fervants, (or even to the close of life,) in the form prescribed, by a Bráhmen wearing his thread on his right fhoulder, proceeding from left to right, without remiffness, and with *cus 'a-grafs in his hand.

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280. Obfequies muft not be performed by night; fince the night is called rácsbasì or infested by demons; nor while the fun is rifing or fetting, B nor when it has just risen.

281. A house-keeper, unable to give a monthly * repaft, may perform obfequies here below, according to the facred ordinance, only thrice a year, in the feafons of hémanta, grishma, and • verfhàs

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verfbà; but the five facraments he must perform daily.

282. The facrificial oblation at obfequies to ancestors, is ordained to be made in no vulgar fire; nor fhou'd the monthly fráddha of that Brahmen, who keeps a perpetual fire, be made on any day, except on that of the conjunction.

283. When a twice born man, having performed his ablution, offers a fatisfaction to the manes with water only, being unable to give a repast, he gains by that offering all the fruit of a fráddha.

284. The wife call our fathers, Vafus; our ⚫ paternal grandfathers, Rudras; our paternal great grandfathers, Adityas; (that is all are to be revered as deities,) and to this effect there is a primeval text in the Véda.

285. Let a man, who is able, continually feed on vighafa, and continually feed on amrita; by vighafa is meant the refidue of a repast at obfequies; and by amrita, the refidue of a facrifice to the gods.

286. THIS complete fyftem of rules, for the five facraments and the like, has been declared to you now hear the law for thofe means of fub'fiftence, which the chief of the twice born may • feek.

CHAPTER THE FOURTH.

On Economicks; and Private Morals.

1. “Let a Bráhmen, having dwelt with a preceptor during the first quarter of a man's life, país the fecond quarter of human life in his own ‹ house, when he has contracted a legal marriage.

2. He must live, with no injury, or with the • leaft poffible injury, to animated beings, by 'pursuing those means of gaining fubfiftence, which are strictly prefcribed by law, except in times of distress:

3. For the fole purpose of supporting life, let him acquire property by thofe irreproach⚫able occupations, which are peculiar to his clafs, · and unattended with bodily pain.

4. He may live by rita and amrita, or, if neceffary, by mrita or pramrita, or even by fatyanrita; but never let him subsist by fwavritti: 5. By rita, must be understood lawful gleaning and gathering; by amrita, what is given • unasked; by mrita, what is asked as alms; tillage is called pramrita ;

6. Traffick and money lending are fatyanrita; even by them, when he is deeply diftreffed, may he fupport life; but fervice for hire is named fwavritti, or dog living, and of course he must by ⚫ all means avoid it.