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43 square of the city and having done so they killed before his vcr y cyes eight younger brothers of his father and having done so they, beating him very much by means of the lashes of whips, made him miserably eat very small pieces of flesh: ( as small as the “kāgani' or gunjā fruit) and having done so they made him drink the water in the form of blood. After that in the second square they killed before him his eight younger aunts (the wives of those cight younger uncles that were killed ). In the same way, in the third square they killed the eight elder brothers of his father, in the fourth his four elderly aunts, in the fifth the sons of his father (ie. all his brothers excluding himself), in the sixth square the wives ( of all the brothers ), in the seventh the son-inlaws of his father ( i.e. the husbands of his sisters ), in the eighth the daughters of his father (i.e. his sisters ), in the ninth the grandsons of his father (i.e. tre sons of his brothers and sisters ), in the tenth the grand-daughters of his father (i.e. the daughters of his brothers and sisters ), in the eleventh the husbands of those grand-daughters of his father, in the twelfth the wives of those grand-sons of his father, in the thirteenth the husbands of his father's sisters, in the fourteenth his father's sisters, in the fifteenth the husbands of his mother's sisters, in the sixteenth his mother's sisters, in the seventeenth the wives of his maternal uncle, and in the eighteenth they killed before him his remaining friends, caste