Grihya Sutras

SR No.: 007685
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hermann Oldenberg
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1886
Total Pages: 2642
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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1, 293.
ORDEAL BY FIRE.
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every two circles is ordained to measure thirty-two Angulas.
* 286. Thus the space covered by the eight circles will measure two hundred and fifty-six Angulas.
* 287. He should place seven leaves of the holy fig-tree in the hands of the defendant, and should fasten the leaves (on his hands) with seven threads.
* 288. A professional blacksmith, who has practice in working with fire, and whose skill has been tested on previous occasions, should be caused to heat the iron in fire.
* 289, 290. An iron ball fifty Palas in weight having been repeatedly made fiery, sparkling and red-hot, a pure Brahman who reveres truth, should address it as follows, when it has been heated thrice:
Listen to the law of Manu, which is superintended by the guardians of the world (themselves).
* 291. Thou, O fire, art the means of purification and the exalted mouth of all the gods. Thou, dwelling in the heart of all beings, knowest this affair.
* 292. Truth and falsehood proceed from thy tongue. Deign not to show thyself unworthy of the character thus attributed to thee in the Vedas and other books.
* 293. This man (the defendant) has been thus addressed by that man (the plaintiff), and has denied circle shall equal the defendant's foot in breadth, where the foot is longer than sixteen Angulas. Pitamaha says that the outlines of the circles shall be marked with cow-dung.
288. 'A professional blacksmith, not one officiating temporarily in that capacity. A.
289, 290. The Viramitrodaya says that the iron ball shall be put into cold water, after it has been heated for the first and second times.
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