One should offer a serpent incenses and lights, much strew rice and sesamum, and should dedicate uncooked rice-flour, eatables and milk.

One should offer a serpent made of gold, according to his means, and a cow, to a twice-born. Then one should, with hands together "may the King of Serpents be pleased;"

And should further perform for them the rite Narayana-bali, by which they are absolved of all sins and obtain residence in heaven,

79. Thus, having done all the rites, one should give every day a jar with food and water until the end of the year, or rice-balls with water regularly.

80. Having done this on the eleventh day he should then offer the rice-balls for all the ancestors, and when free from pollution he should have made a gift of a bed and other gifts.

Footnotes

^103:1 For an account of these ceremonies, see the Daily Practice of the Hindus by Mr. Sris Chandra Vasu, Panini Office, Allahabad.

^104:1 It is usually worn ever the left shoulder under the right arm, for this ceremony, he mast change it.

^104:2 Brahma.

^104:3 Dharma or Yama.

^106:1 Orthodox Hindus place a mark on the forehead to show caste and other things.

^108:1 Including the latter part of October and the first part of November.

^110:1 That is Fire.

^111:1 S'iva.

^111:2 The primeval man; Visnu.

^112:1 The food is placed near the image, and passes of the hands are made as though a influence it towards the image.

^112:2 Made into a ball, usually with sugar and cocoanut.

^113:1 This ceremony is performed on the twelfth day, as it were in anticipation of the annual event. It is the ceremony for all the ancestors together.