| The importance given in India to the birth of sons reflects the need to ensure that there will be a male descendant to perform the shraddha ceremony after one's death. |
| The Avestan yasna is equivalent to yajna, zrazda to shraddha, and kavi is common to both texts. |
| Rites honouring the dead, called shraddha, continue to be performed by the survivors at specified times. |
| The group is bound together and linked with three generations of ancestors through a ceremony called Shraddha. |
| After returning, I went to Benares with my parents, for my father was to perform a shraddha ceremony there. |
| An important and meritorious complement of the funeral offices is the shraddha ceremony, in which food is offered to Brahmans for the benefit of the deceased. |
