Description of Pitrs - Verse 77-78

It is here that they have their miserable hellish abodes devoid ofjoys of heaven. Offering three Pindas to those who passed to the other world by uttering their names and Gotras, they offer Pindas anticlockwise on the ground strewn over with Kusa grass. Thus they propitiate the Pitrs abiding in their places after death ( or in their abodes as Pretas or Ghosts) .