Feeding the dead : ancestor worship in ancient India /
Sayers, Matthew R.,author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Ancestral rites in the early Vedas -- The solemn ancestral rites -- The domestic rice-ball sacrifice to the ancestors -- The Śrāddha-rite -- Ancestral rites in the Buddhist literature -- Soteriology -- Mediation -- Conclusion.
Ancestor worship
Śrāddha (Hindu rite)