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general and with tliat of the long-eared white goat in parti. cular. The flesh of tlie rhinoceros, the Kalasaka, potherb and honey, give special satisfaction to those who are adored at tlie obsequial ceremonies. Blessed is he, and the king who per- forms at the due time the Sraddha ceremony of hií ancestors at Gya and that affordsspecial delight to his aneestors. Grains that spring up spontaneously, wild-rice, white and black Panic forest vegetables, barely, wheal-rice, sesamum, various kinds of pulse and mustard are considered specially fit for anceslral offerings. king, a householder should not offer any- kind of grain that is not rendered sacrcd by religious rites nojthe pulsecalled Rajamðsha, nor millet, nor Ientils, nor gourds, nor garlick, nor onions, nor nightshadc, nor camel's thorn, nor salt, nor the effloresccnce of salt deserts, nor red vegetable extracts, nor any thing that looks like salt, nor any thing that is hated by people. He should not offer that water at a Sráddha that has been brought by night, or has been left off, or is so little as cannot satisíy a cow, or smells badly or is covered with froth. He should not offer milk of animals with undivided hoof, of a camel, a ewe, a deer, or a buííalo. Neither the celestials nor the mancs will partake of the food if a Sraddha is Iookcd at by a eunuch, a foundling, an out- cast, a heretic, a drunken man, or one diseased, a cock.a naked ascetic, a monkey, a village hag, by a woman in her courses or pregnant, by an unclean person, or by a carrier of corpses. The ceremony should be celebrated on a plot <•' grouud carefully cnclosed. The porformer should scatter sesamum on the ground and drive away evil spirits. He should not offer food that is fetid, or spoiled by hairs or insects, or mixed with acid gruel, or stale. Whatever pw e food is offered to the manes, with faith and mentioning tbeif names and race, gives them nourishment. king, i" tbe days of yore, in the forest of Kalápa the Pitris said to Ikshwaku, the son of Manu "Those, who shall respectfol'y offer to us cakes at Gya, shall follow a righteous path. May