911. There is no re-doing of what is done excepting the rites for the departed, O Bird; but, for the sake of the departed it may be done again, as a means of unfading satisfaction.

97-99. Now I shall tell you the rules concerning the monthly, the annual and the fortnightly ceremonies, and of dying on lunar days.

If one dies at the full moon his rites fall on the fourth day. If one dies on the fourth day his rites fall on the ninth.

If one dies on the ninth day, his day is the fourteenth. In these cases one should perform the fortnightly S'raddha on the twentieth day.

100-105. When in one month [Ksayamasa] two sankrantis occur, in the irregular month, the month being double, the S'raddha is not performed.

When there are two months in one month, of those two, the two fortnights and the thirty days are the same [both must be performed.] For the first half day take the former [the dark]; for the second half,

the latter. Thus are understood by the wise the two months which are in the irregular month.

The Sapinda ceremony, O bird, should be done when there is no sankranta; similarly the monthly and the first annual S'raddhas.

If there is an additional month in the middle of a year, then in the thirteenth month the annual ceremony for the departed occurs.

When there is no , rice-balls are not used; when there is sankranta, rice-balls are proper. Thus the annual S'raddha should be done in both months.

106. Thus, at the end of the first year one should perform the annual S'raddha, and in that, in addition, the twice-born should be fed.

107-110. After a year one should always offer three rice-balls at the S'raddha. The ceremony for one only should not be done; by it one becomes the destroyer of his forefathers.

The S'raddha at a sacred bathing-place, the S'raddha at Gaya, the Gajachchhayam, for the fathers--these he should not do during the year, nor at eclipses, nor on yuga days.

If the son performs the S'raddha at Gaya, O Lord of Birds, it should be done after a year, with devotion to the forefathers.

The forefathers are freed from the ocean of existence by the S'raddha at Gaya and, by favour of the Visnu, they go to the supreme state.

111-113. He should worship the feet of Visnu with the shoots of the holy basil, and in proper order offer rice-balls round them.

He who offers, on the head of Gaya, a rice-ball of the size of even a s'ami leaf helps over seven clans and one hundred and one fatuities.

He who, delighting the family, having gone to Gaya, performs the S'raddha and gives satisfaction to the forefathers, his life is fruitful.

111-115. O Lord of birds, the forefathers hear a song sung by the Holy Ones in Kalapa, the garden of Iksvaku, the son of Manu:--