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2. After them aged persons forming an odd number, men and women not going together, (carry) the dead body.
ASVALÂYANA-GRIHYA-SUTRA.
3. Some (say) that (the dead body should be carried) in a cart with a seat, drawn by cows.
4. (Some prescribe) a she-animal for covering (the dead body with its limbs):
5. A cow,
6. Or a she-goat of one colour.
7. Some (take) a black one.
8. They tie (a rope) to its left fore-foot and lead it behind (the dead body).
9. Then follow the relations (of the dead person), wearing their sacrificial cords below (round their body), with the hair-locks untied, the older ones first, the younger ones last.
10. When they have thus arrived at the place, the performer (of the rites) walks three times round the spot with his left side turned towards it, and with a Sami branch sprinkles water on it, with (the verse), 'Go away, withdraw, and depart from here' (Rig-veda X, 14, 9).
II. To the south-east, on an elevated corner (of that place), he places the Âhavaniya fire,
12. To the north-west the Gârhapatya fire, 13. To the south-west the Dakshina fire.
14. After that a person that knows (how to do it), piles up between the fires a pile of fuel.
4. See chap. 3, 20-25.
10. Kartodakena (i. e. kartâ udakena) is evidently the right reading, not gartodakena.
12, 13. The words, ' on an elevated corner' (Sutra 11) have to be supplied.
14. As to the pronoun enam, which refers, with an irregular
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