 It is cognate with the Latin "crēdo" ('to entrust, give credence'), the Old Avestan "zrazdā-" ('devoted, trusting, believing'), or the Old Irish "creitid" ('believe').In practice, the karta (person who performs the Śrāddha) (1) invites Brahmanaas (priests) that day, invokes in them the divinity of his/her parent, worships and feeds them (2) performs a homa (fire ritual), appeasing Agni and Soma - the deities who transmit the offerings to the ancestors, nourish and protect them and (3) offers balls of rice to the departed souls ("pinda pradaana", offered to the Pitṛs, the ancestral spirits).The offerings are made to three generations i.e.father, grandfather and great grandfather / mother, fathers’mother, fathers’ grandmother.