Hindu Dharma that does
not give any cause for excuse for not performing shraddha due to the absence of
a particular person!
Son (including the one
whose threading ceremony has not been done), daughter, grandson, great
grandson, wife, daughter’s son (if he is one of the heirs), real brother,
nephew, cousin’s son, father, mother, daughter-in-law, son of elder and younger
sisters, maternal uncle, anyone in the seven generations and from the same
lineage (sapinda), anyone after the seven generations and belonging to the same
family domain (samanodak), disciple, priests (upadhyay), friend, son-in-law of
the deceased person can perform Shraddha in that order.
In case of a joint
family, the eldest and earning male person should perform Shraddha. In case of
the unit family, everyone should perform shraddha independently.
Hindu Dharma has made
arrangement so that for each and every dead person the shraddha can be
performed so as to give momentum to that person to progress to a higher
sub-plane. Holy text Dharma Sindhu mentions that, ‘If a particular dead person
does not have any relative or a close person, then it is the duty of the king
to perform Shraddha for that person’.
Performance of Shraddha by women:
As mentioned above that
the daughter, wife, mother and daughter-in-law of the deceased person have the
authority to perform Shraddha. In spite of this, in the current era, the
priests who conduct Shraddha deny their consent for women to perform Shraddha.
This could be because in the earlier days the thread ceremony was performed for
females, and in current era, this practice has been discontinued in all
classes. Therefore, in accordance to that, even performing of Shraddha has been
disallowed for females. In emergency conditions, however, if no one is
available for performing Shraddha, then it is better for it to be performed by
women instead of not performing it at all.
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