अयने विषुवे कुर्याद् व्यतीपाते दिनक्षये । चन्द्रादित्योपरागे च द्वादश्यां श्रवणेषु च ॥ २० ॥ तृतीयायां शुक्लपक्षे नवम्यामथ कार्तिके । चतसृष्वप्यष्टकासु हेमन्ते शिशिरे तथा ॥ २१ ॥ माघे च सितसप्तम्यां मघाराकासमागमे । राकया चानुमत्या च मासर्क्षाणि युतान्यपि ॥ २२ ॥ द्वादश्यामनुराधा स्याच्छ्रवणस्तिस्र उत्तरा: । तिसृष्वेकादशी वासु जन्मर्क्षश्रोणयोगूयुक् ॥ २३ ॥
ayane visuve kuryad vyatipate dina-ksaye candradityoparage ca dvadasyam sravanesu ca trtiyayam sukla-pakse navamyam atha kartike catasrsv apy astakasu hemante sisire tatha maghe ca sita-saptamyam magha-raka-samagame rakaya canumatya ca masarksani yutany api dvadasyam anuradha syac chravanas tisra uttarah tisrsv ekadasi vasu janmarksa-srona-yoga-yuk
- ayane
- on the day when the sun begins to move north, or Makara-sankranti, and on the day when the sun begins to move south, or Karkata-sankranti
- visuve
- on the Mesa-sankranti and on the Tula-sankranti
- kuryat
- one should perform
- vyatipate
- in the yoga named Vyatipata
- dina-ksaye
- on that day in which three tithis are combined
- candra-aditya-uparage
- at the time of the eclipse of either the moon or the sun
- ca
- and also
- dvadasyam sravanesu
- on the twelfth lunar day and in the naksatra named Sravana
- ca
- and
- trtiyayam
- on the Aksaya-trtiya day
- sukla-pakse
- in the bright fortnight of the month
- navamyam
- on the ninth lunar day
- atha
- also
- kartike
- in the month of Kartika (October-November)
- catasrsu
- on the four
- api
- also
- astakasu
- on the Astakas
- hemante
- before the winter season
- sisire
- in the winter season
- tatha
- and also
- maghe
- in the month of Magha (January-February)
- ca
- and
- sita-saptamyam
- on the seventh lunar day of the bright fortnight
- magha-raka-samagame
- in the conjunction of Magha-naksatra and the full-moon day
- rakaya
- with a day of the completely full moon
- ca
- and
- anumatya
- with a full-moon day when the moon is slightly less than completely full
- ca
- and
- masa-rksani
- the naksatras that are the sources of the names of the various months
- yutani
- are conjoined
- api
- also
- dvadasyam
- on the twelfth lunar day
- anuradha
- the naksatra named Anuradha
- syat
- may occur
- sravanah
- the naksatra named Sravana
- tisrah
- the three (naksatras)
- uttarah
- the naksatras named Uttara (Uttara-phalguni, Uttarasadha and Uttara-bhadrapada)
- tisrsu
- on three
- ekadasi
- the eleventh lunar day
- va
- or
- asu
- on these
- janma-rksa
- of one’s own janma-naksatra, or birth star
- srona
- of Sravana-naksatra
- yoga
- by a conjunction
- yuk
- having
One should perform the sraddha ceremony on the Makara-sankranti [the day when the sun begins to move north] or on the Karkata-sankranti [the day when the sun begins to move south]. One should also perform this ceremony on the Mesa-sankranti day and the Tula-sankranti day, in the yoga named Vyatipata, on that day in which three lunar tithis are conjoined, during an eclipse of either the moon or the sun, on the twelfth lunar day, and in the Sravana-naksatra. One should perform this ceremony on the Aksaya-trtiya day, on the ninth lunar day of the bright fortnight of the month of Kartika, on the four astakas in the winter season and cool season, on the seventh lunar day of the bright fortnight of the month of Magha, during the conjunction of Magha-naksatra and the full-moon day, and on the days when the moon is completely full, or not quite completely full, when these days are conjoined with the naksatras from which the names of certain months are derived. One should also perform the sraddha ceremony on the twelfth lunar day when it is in conjunction with any of the naksatras named Anuradha, Sravana, Uttara-phalguni, Uttarasadha or Uttara-bhadrapada. Again, one should perform this ceremony when the eleventh lunar day is in conjunction with either Uttara-phalguni, Uttarasadha or Uttara-bhadrapada. Finally, one should perform this ceremony on days conjoined with one’s own birth star [janma-naksatra] or with Sravana-naksatra.