Note 40 — Chapter XX · THE SHRADDHA CEREMONY.
G. D. (George Devereux) Oswell translation
One of the features of a shraddha. ceremony is the assembly of Pandits, who engage in a dispute more or less factitious, in the course of which a point arises when they all get so excited that they almost come to actual fisticuffs; an arbitrator then steps forward, and the excitement subsides as suddenly as it had arisen.