Mahabharata · Chapter 13.136
yamastu yāni śrāddhāni provāca śaśabindave /
tāni me śṛṇu kāmyāni nakṣatreṣu pṛthakpṛthak //
śrāddhaṃ yaḥ kṛttikāyoge kurvīta satataṃ naraḥ /
agnīnādhāya sāpatyo yajeta vigatajvaraḥ //
apatyakāmo rohiṇyāṃ tejaskāmo mṛgottame /
krūrakarmā dadacchrāddhamārdrāyāṃ mānavo bhavet //
kṛṣibhāgī bhavenmartyaḥ kurvañśrāddhaṃ punarvasau /
puṣṭikāmo'tha puṣyeṇa śrāddhamīheta mānavaḥ //
āśleṣāyāṃ dadacchrāddhaṃ dhīrānputrānprajāyate /
jñātīnāṃ tu bhavecchreṣṭho maghāsu śrāddhamāvapan //
phalgunīṣu dadacchrāddhaṃ subhagaḥ śrāddhado bhavet /
apatyabhāguttarāsu hastena phalabhāgbhavet //
citrāyāṃ tu dadacchrāddhaṃ labhedrūpavataḥ sutān /
svātiyoge pitṝnarcya vāṇijyamupajīvati //
bahuputro viśākhāsu putramīnahanbhavennaraḥ /
anurādhāsu kurvāṇo rājyacakraṃ pravartayet //
ādhipatyaṃ vrajenmartyo jyeṣṭhāyāmapavarjayan /
naraḥ kurukulaśreṣṭha ṛddho damapuraḥsaraḥ //
mūle tvārogyamṛccheta yaśo'ṣāḍhāsu cottamam /
uttarāsu tvaṣāḍhāsu vītaśokaścarenmahīm //
śrāddhaṃ tvabhijitau kurvanvidyāṃ śreṣṭhāmavāpnuyāt /
śravaṇeṣu dadacchrāddhaṃ pretya gacchetsa tadgatim //
rājyabhāgī dhaniṣṭhāyāṃ bhaveta niyataṃ naraḥ /
nakṣatre vāruṇe kurvanbhiṣaksiddhimavāpnuyāt //
pūrvaproṣṭhapadāḥ kurvanbahūnvindatyajāvikān /
uttarāsu prakurvāṇo vindo gāḥ sahasraśaḥ //
bahukupyakṛtaṃ vittaṃ vindate revatīṃ śritaḥ /
aśvinīṣvaśvānvindeta bharaṇīṣvāyuruttamam //
imaṃ śrāddhavidhiṃ śrutvā śaśabindustathā'karot /
aklesenājayaccāpi mahīṃ so'nuśaśāsa ha //
Original text: Mahābhārata (southern recension) · Edition: Śrīman Mahābhāratam, ed. T. R. Krishnacharya and T. R. Vyasacharya, Nirnaya Sagar Press, Bombay 1906–1910; e-text by SARIT (Shrinivasa Varakhedi and others) · SARIT: Search and Retrieval of Indic Texts · SARIT (e-text) via Internet Archive · CC BY-SA 3.0