Manu Smriti - Hindu Online

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3.268. Two months with fish, three months with the meat of gazelles, four with mutton, and five indeed with the
flesh of birds,
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3.269. Six months with the flesh of kids, seven with that of spotted deer, eight with that of the black antelope,
but nine with that of the (deer called) Ruru,
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3.270. Ten months they are satisfied with the meat of boars and buffaloes, but eleven months indeed with that of
hares and tortoises,
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3.271. One year with cow-milk and milk-rice; from the flesh of a long-eared white he-goat their satisfaction
endures twelve years.
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3.272. The (vegetable called) Kalasaka, (the fish called) Mahasalka, the flesh of a rhinoceros and that of a red
goat, and all kinds of food eaten by hermits in the forest serve for an endless time.
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3.273. Whatever (food), mixed with honey, one gives on the thirteenth lunar day in the rainy season under the
asterism of Maghah, that also procures endless (satisfaction).
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3.274. ’May such a man (the manes say) be born in our family who will give us milk-rice, with honey and
clarified butter, on the thirteenth lunar day (of the month of Bhadrapada) and (in the afternoon) when the
shadow of an elephant falls towards the east.’
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3.275. Whatever (a man), full of faith, duly gives according to the prescribed rule, that becomes in the other
world a perpetual and imperishable (gratification) for the manes.
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3.276. The days of the dark half of the month, beginning with the tenth, but excepting the fourteenth, are
recommended for a funeral sacrifice; (it is) not thus (with) the others.
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3.277. He who performs it on the even (lunar) days and under the even constellations, gains (the fulfilment of)
all his wishes; he who honours the manes on odd (lunar days) and under odd (constellations), obtains
distinguished offspring.