[Advaita-l] शुक्लयजुर्वेदीय संक्षिप्त भोजन-विधि: + शुक्लयजुर्वेदीय ब्रह्मयज्ञप्रयोगः + तर्पण प्रयोगः

[Jaldhar H. Vyas]

On Fri, 12 Dec 2014, Venkatesh Murthy via Advaita-l wrote:

> In the Divya Pitru Tarpana I always heard we should not give it with 
> Black Till and water but we should use pure water only. Black Till is 
> for Yama Tarpana and Manushya Pitrus only.

I am a shuklayajurvedi and FWIW the practice is to use water only for 
nitya tarpana.  kala tal is used for masika shraddha (very rarely 
practiced by Gujaratis) and varshika shraddha only.

> On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 7:43 AM, Animesh via Advaita-l  wrote:

> ( The point that to be noted is  " prayogas are according to current 
> practices , which don't follow pArasakara strictly .The step by step
> procedure strictly according to pAraskara grihya is mostly out of 
> practice. " Yet in some more posts I  would like to revive the strict 
> prayaga according to pAraskara .)

Yes you are right both that the sutra says this and it is not the current 
practice.  Personally I am happy to stick with sampradayika level of rigor 
but your efforts to publicize such things are laudable.

Incidently even though the trikandika sutra is a parishishta of Maharshi 
Paraskaras grhya sutra, its author is said to be Maharshi Katyayana.

On Sun, 14 Dec 2014, Venkatesh Murthy via Advaita-l wrote:

>
> You have given the reference - " tato apasvayaM tilamishraM kavyavAdaanal
> (gum ) somaM........". But in practice I see that the Jeevat Pitruka person
> with Father alive will not give Tarpana with Yajnopavita in Apasavya. He
> must give it with Savya only. Or he can give it in Savya and putting the
> Yajnopavita around his left thumb when he is giving Divya Pitru Tarpana.
> This is also correct but not Apasavya for Jeevat Pitruka.

>
> Similarly I think Jeevat Pitruka should not use Black Till for Tarpana.
>

Personally I don't think one whose father is still alive should do pitra 
tarpana at all so I omit it myself.

-- 
Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>