Reflecting then, by the light of the scriptures. I became convinced that the ordinance is in the Vedas that the cake should not be presented to the hand of him whose Shraddha is performed. My conviction was that the obsequial cake should never be presented in this world by a man to the visible hand of the nan whose obsequial rites are performed. The departed Manes do not come in their visible forms for taking the cake. On the other hand, the ordinance lays down that it should be presented on the blades of Kusha grass spread the earth for the purpose. I then, disregarding that hand which was the mark of may father's presence, and recollecting the true ordinance of the scriptures regarding to mode of presenting the cake, offered the entire cake, O chief of the Bharatas, upon those blades of Kusha grass that were spread before me.
ततो मे पुनरेवासीत् संज्ञा संचिन्त्य शास्त्रतः। नायं वेदेषु विहितो विधिहस्त इति प्रभो॥ पिण्डो देयो नरेणेह ततो मतिरभून्मम। साक्षान्नेह मनुष्यस्य पिण्डं हि पितरः क्वचित्॥ गृह्णन्ति विहितं चेत्थं पिण्डो देयः कुशेष्विति। ततोऽहं तदनादृत्य पितुर्हस्तनिदर्शनम्॥ शास्त्रप्रमाण्यसूक्ष्मं तु विधिं पिण्डस्य संस्मरन्। ततो दर्भेषु तत् सर्वमददं भरतर्षभ।॥