333:5 Very full descriptions of the Śráddha occur in almost all the Puráńas, especially in the Váyu, Kúrma, Márkańd́eya, Vámana, and Garud́a. The Matsya and Padma (Śrisht́hi Khańd́a) contain descriptions which are much the same as that of the Váyu. The accounts of the Bráhma, Agni, and Varáha are less full and regular than in some of the others; and in none of them is the subject so fully and perspicuously treated as in our text. For satisfactory information, however, the Śráddha Mayúkha and the Nirńaya Sindhu should be consulted.

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