Uttara Kālamṛta
Chapter 9 · Rites and Rituals · Verse 2
Sanskrit · DevanāgarīUttara Kālamṛta manuscript tradition
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Father, grandfather and great-grand father are the threc generations thal have a right to the offering of the Pindas at the time of the annual Shraddha. The three others can have only a Pindalepa, a fraction of the Pinda with ghee. The native is thus the seventh in the line. This is Sapindya. This is observed on the twelfth day of the death. Note the generalion when the family or families get different from those of the bride and the bridegroom. This difference is to be counted from the seventh or the fifth gcencrations from the father and the mother respectively of the bride and the bridegroom.

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