Like cultivators expecting auspicious showers of rain, the departed manes always expect that their sons and grandsons would present food to them.
आशंसन्ते हि पितरः सुवृष्टिमिव कर्षकाः। अस्माकमपि पुत्रो वा पौत्रे वान्नं प्रदास्यति॥