Note 6 — Chapter IV · WORSHIP OF ANCESTORS AND SAINTS.

The pitriyas or ancestral spirits are propitiated by pouring water over the Bordi (jujube), the Tulsi (sweet basil), the Vad (banyan), the Pipal or durvā grass (cynodon dactylon) on the 13th, 14th and 15th days of the bright half of Chaitra and on the same days of the dark half of Kārtik and Shrāvan. On Vaishākh Shud Trij, that is, on the third of the bright half of Vaishākh, which is called Akhā Trij, women offer to Brāhmans two earthen jars filled with water and covered with an earthen cup containing a betelnut, a pice and a pān or betel leaf, for the propitiation of the spirits of their deceased ancestors.6