This ceremony, popularly called Hiranya Shraddham, helps the deceased parents and ancestors in their new world. ... Knowingly or unknowingly, in their life on Earth one of the parents may have committed some sin or selfishness. Then the parent suffers in their new world.

This ceremony, popularly called Hiranya Shraddham, helps the deceased parents and ancestors in their new world. Knowingly or unknowingly, in their life on Earth one of the parents may have committed some sin or selfishness. Then the parent suffers in their new world.

Depending on the availability of a learned and deserving Brahmana and an appropriately auspicious time, one’s offering good bhojana and daana aiming at and in the pious memory of Pitru Devas is defined as Shraaddha.

Pārvaṇaśrāddha (पार्वणश्राद्ध).—Done in Parvas without the invocation of deities; three fold; those eligible and those ineligible to be fed on the occasion; of the eligibles the family and gotra must have been known; they must be well behaved and going in the path of virtue; friends and preceptors, grandsons, sons-in-law, uncles and other relations, somayājins, vaiyākaraṇas, mīmāṃsakas, sāmaga Brahmacāris are eligible; the ineligibles include the unrighteous, the diseased, bastards, aśvapālas, the mad, the self-conceited, the deceitful, the hypocritical, temple priests, etc., also Mlecchas, Lingins, Triśaṅkus, Barbaras, Drāviḍas, etc. They must be informed a day previous to the śrāddha; other details;