In reply, we have been referred to the meaning of the term "Sraddha" given in Sir M. Monier Williams ' Sanskrit English Dictionary (p. 1097) as follows ". .a ceremony in honour and for the benefit of dead relatives observed with great strictness at various fixed periods and on occasions of rejoicing as well as mourning by the surviving relatives (these ceremonies are performed by the daily offering of water and on stated occasions by the offering of Pindas or balls of rice and meal to three paternal and three maternal forefathers, i.e. to father, grand father, and great grandfather, it should be borne in mind that a Sraddha is not a funeral ceremony (antyeshti) but a supplement to such a ceremony; it is an act of reverential homage to a deceased person performed by relatives, and is moreover supposed to supply the dead with strengthening nutriment after the performance of the previous funeral ceremonies has endowed 433 the with ethereal bodies; indeed until those antyeshti or funeral rites ' have been performed, and until the succeeding first Sraddha has, been celebrated the deceased relative is a prata or restless, wandering ghost, and has no real body (only a lingrasarira, q.v.); it is not until the first Sraddha has taken place that he attains a position among the Pitris or Divine Fathers in their blissful abode called Pitri loka, and the Sro is most desirable and efficacious when performed by a son;" Thus, it is clear that there is a distinction between cremation ceremonies and Sraddha ceremonies which are periodic.