A Brahman is seated to represent the pretha or dead person, and fed after going through sradh rites.
For sradh ceremonies, Niyogis do not generally sit as Brahmans representing the ancestors, Vaidikis being engaged for this purpose.
It is generally believed that the welfare of a parent's soul depends on the performance of sradh (memorial services) by his son.
The recurring annual sradh (Pratyabdhika) need not of necessity be performed.
But no Brahman, orthodox or unorthodox, dares to abandon the death ceremonial, and annual sradh (memorial rites).
Every month, for a year after a death in a family, sradh should, as indicated, be performed.
This weakness is so well known that, in the north of the Presidency, the term Ramanuja Matham is used to denote the consumption of meat and drink at death or sradh ceremonies, just as Saivam signifies vegetarianism.
On the eleventh day, a ceremony corresponding to the ekoddishta sradh of the Brahman is carried out.
It is practically a form of sradh ceremony, and all the formalities of the sradh, except the homam (sacred fire) and repeating of mantras from the Vedas, are gone through.
Sradh (annual death ceremony) is not as a rule performed, except in some of the larger towns.
The Kammas perform a first annual ceremony, but not a regular sradh afterwards.
A final beli is performed, and the sradh memorial ceremony is celebrated.
The record refreshes his memory on occasions of sradh (memorial service), etc.
On the night before the sradh day, a room is prepared for the reception of the soul of the deceased.
They also draw the figure of an elephant, and worship it when they perform sradh (memorial service for the dead) and other ceremonies.
Sradh (memorial service) is performed once a year on Sankaranthi (Pongal) day.
They are in some places very particular regarding the performance ofsradh (memorial ceremony), which is carried out annually in the following manner.
They also draw the figure of an elephant, and worship it, when they perform sradh (memorial service for the dead) and other ceremonies.
All caste Hindus who perform the sradh ceremonies calculate the day of death, not by the day of the month, but by the thithis (day after full or new moon).
All this over, the only thing to be done for the deceased is the annual sradh or yearly funeral commemorative rite.
He performed the Sradh ceremony with great eclat, the chief feature of the celebration was the feeding of the poor.
He came to believe in the religious rites of Hinduism and on the death of his mother he performed the Sradh ceremony according to the Hindu rites.
The sradh ceremony was performed, and the birds were then set at liberty.
They also draw the figure of an elephant, and worship it, when they perform sradh and other ceremonies.
On sradh (memorial) days, pindams (balls of cooked rice) are offered to the crows.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sradh" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
