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1
I would not be surprised if the manyheaded naga sheltering the Buddha, Vişņu etc. derived from the mukha-vatti and perhaps the same holds true of the ring, horseshoe-shaped or circular, of flames around Siva Nata-raja.
2
On "outside the village" see of late J.F. Sprockhoff, "Aranyaka und Vanaprastha in der vedischen Literatur", WZKS 28 (1984), p. 6 ff.
