Chapter XIV AURVA proceeded: "Let the devout performer of an ancestral oblation propitiate Brahmā, Indra, Rudra, the Aśvīns, the sun, fire, the Vāsus, the winds, the Viśvadevas, the sages, birds, men, animals, reptiles, progenitors, and all existent things, by offering adoration to them monthly, on the fifteenth day of the moon's wane (or dark fortnight), or on the eighth day