[Footnote 307: As meaning the food, _s_râddha occurs in _s_râddhabhu_g_ and similar words. As meaning the sacrificial act, it is explained, yatraita_k_ _kh_raddhayâ dîyate tad eva karma _s_râddha_s_abdâbhidheyam. Pretam pit_rîms_ _k_a nirdi_s_ya bho_g_ya_m_ yat priyam âtmana_h_ _s_raddhayâ dîyate yatra ta_k_ _kh_râddham parikîrtitam. "Gobhilîya G_ri_hya-sûtras," p. 892. We also read _s_raddhânvita_h_ _s_râddha_m_ kurvîta, "let a man perform the _s_râddha with faith;" "Gobhilîya G_ri_hya-sûtras," p. 1053.] [Footnote 308: Manu III. 82.] [Footnote 309: Pit_rî_n uddi_s_ya yad dîyate brâhma_n_ebhya_h_ _s_raddhayâ ta_k_ _kh_râdd ham.] [Footnote 310: Âpastamba II. 16, 3, Brâhma_n_âs tv âhavanîyârthe.] [Footnote 311: L. c. p. 142.] [Footnote 312: Manu III. 138, 140.] [Footnote 313: "Â_s_v. G_ri_hya-sûtras" IV. 5, 8.] [Footnote 314: It is described as a vik_ri_ti of the Pârva_n_a-_s_râddha in "Gobhilîya G_ri_hya-sûtras," p. 1011.] [Footnote 315: One of the differences between the acts before and after the Sapi_nd_îkara_n_a is noted by Sâlankâyana:--Sapi_nd_îkara_n_am yâvad _rig_udarbhai_h_ pit_ri_kriyâ Sapi_nd_îkara_n_âd ûrdhva_m_ dvigu_n_air vidhivad bhavet. "Gobhilîya G_ri_hya-sûtras," p. 930.] [Footnote 316: "Gobhilîya G_ri_hya-sûtras," p. 1023.] [Footnote 317: "G_ri_hya-sûtras," ed. Oldenberg, p. 83.] [Footnote 318: A pratyâbdikam ekoddish_t_am on the anniversary of the deceased is mentioned by Gobhilîya, l. c. p. 1011.] [Footnote 319: "Gobhilîya G_ri_hya-sûtras," p. 1039.] [Footnote 320: "_S_ânkh. G_ri_hya," p. 83; "Gobh. G_ri_hya," p. 1024. According to some authorities the ekoddish_t_a is called nava, new, during ten days; navami_s_ra, mixed, for six months; and purâ_n_a, old, afterward. "Gobhilîya G_ri_hya-sûtras," p. 1020.] [Footnote 321: "Gobhilîya," l. c. p. 1032.] [Footnote 322: "Gobhilîya," l. c. p. 1047.] [Footnote 323: "Life and Essays," ii. p. 195.] [Footnote 324: Colebrooke adds that in most provinces the periods for these sixteen ceremonies, and for the concluding obsequies entitled Sapi_nd_ana, are anticipated, and the whole is completed on the second or third day; after which they are again performed at the proper times, but in honor of the whole set of progenitors instead of the deceased singly. It is this which Dr. Donner, in his learned paper on the "Pi_nd_apit_ri_ya_gñ_a" (p. 11), takes as the general rule.] [Footnote 325: See this subject most exhaustively treated, particularly in its bearings on the law of inheritance, in Rajkumar Sarvâdhikâri's "Tagore Law Lectures for 1880," p. 93.] [Footnote 326: "Gobhilîya G_ri_hya-sûtras," p. 892.] [Footnote 327: L. c. p. 897.] [Footnote 328: See p. 666, and p. 1008. G_ri_hyakâra_h_ pi_nd_apit_ri_ya_gñ_asya _s_râddhatvam âha.]