Chapter 80

Vishnu Smriti 80

The ancestors are pleased for a month with sesame seeds, rice, barley, black beans, water, roots, fruits, and vegetables, with śyāmāka (श्यामाक) millet, priyaṅgu (प्रियङ्गु) millet, wild rice, green gram, and wheat. // Vi_80.1 //

For two months with fish meat. // Vi_80.2 //

For three with deer meat. // Vi_80.3 //

For four with ram's meat. // Vi_80.4 //

For five with bird meat. // Vi_80.5 //

For six with goat meat. // Vi_80.6 //

For seven with the meat of the raurava (रौरव) deer. // Vi_80.7 //

For eight with the meat of the spotted deer. // Vi_80.8 //

For nine with the meat of the gavaya (गवय) (a species of ox). // Vi_80.9 //

For ten with buffalo meat. // Vi_80.10 //

For eleven with the meat of a young goat. // Vi_80.11 //

For a year with cow's milk or its products. // Vi_80.12 //

On this subject, there is a verse sung by the ancestors (pitṛgītā gāthā (पितृगीता गाथा)). // Vi_80.13 //

Kālaśāka (कालशाक) vegetable, the flesh of the large-scaled fish, and the meat of the white-nosed rhinoceros (vārdhrīṇasa (वार्ध्रीणस)), / And the meat of rhinoceroses, excluding the horn—these we feast upon until the end of time. || Vi_80.14 ||