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ayane —on the day when the sun begins to move north, or Makara-saṅkrānti, and on the day when the sun begins to move south, or Karkaṭa-saṅkrānti;  viṣuve —on the Meṣa-saṅkrānti and on the Tulā-saṅkrānti;  kuryāt —one should perform;  vyatīpāte —in the  yoga  named Vyatīpāta;  dina-kṣaye —on that day in which three  tithis  are combined;  candra-āditya-uparāge —at the time of the eclipse of either the moon or the sun;  ca —and also;  dvādaśyām śravaṇeṣu —on the twelfth lunar day and in the  nakṣatra  named Śravaṇa;  ca —and;  tṛtīyāyām —on the Akṣaya-tṛtīyā day;  śukla-pakṣe —in the bright fortnight of the month;  navamyām —on the ninth lunar day;  atha —also;  kārtike —in the month of Kārtika (October–November);  cataṣṛṣu —on the four;  api —also;  aṣṭakāsu —on the Aṣṭakās;  hemante —before the winter season;  śiśire —in the winter season;  tathā —and also;  māghe —in the month of Māgha (January–February);  ca —and;  sita-saptamyām —on the seventh lunar day of the bright fortnight;  maghā-rākā-samāgame —in the conjunction of Maghā- nakṣatra  and the full-moon day;  rākayā —with a day of the completely full moon;  ca —and;  anumatyā —with a full-moon day when the moon is slightly less than completely full;  ca —and;  māsa-ṛkṣāṇi —the  nakṣatras  that are the sources of the names of the various months;  yutāni —are conjoined;  api —also;  dvādaśyām —on the twelfth lunar day;  anurādhā —the  nakṣatra  named Anurādhā;  syāt —may occur;  śravaṇaḥ —the  nakṣatra  named Śravaṇa;  tisraḥ —the three ( nakṣatras );  uttarāḥ —the  nakṣatras  named Uttarā (Uttara-phalgunī, Uttarāṣāḍhā and Uttara-bhādrapadā);  tiṣṛṣu —on three;  ekādaśī —the eleventh lunar day;  vā —or;  āsu —on these;  janma-ṛkṣa —of one's own  janma-nakṣatra , or birth star;  śroṇa —of Śravaṇa- nakṣatra ;  yoga —by a conjunction;  yuk —having.
TRANSLATION
One should perform the śrāddha ceremony on the Makara-saṅkrānti [the day when the sun begins to move north] or on the Karkaṭa-saṅkrānti [the day when the sun begins to move south]. One should also perform this ceremony on the Meṣa-saṅkrānti day and the Tulā-saṅkrānti day, in the  yoga  named Vyatīpāta, on that day in which three lunar  tithis  are conjoined, during an eclipse of either the moon or the sun, on the twelfth lunar day, and in the Śravaṇa- nakṣatra . One should perform this ceremony on the Akṣaya-tṛtīyā day, on the ninth lunar day of the bright fortnight of