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IV ADHYAYA, 2 KANDIKÂ, 1.
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11. Of the depth of one Vitasti (span). 12. The cemetery should be free from all sides. 13. It should be fertile in herbs.
14. But plants with thorns and with milkyjuice, &c., as stated above.
15. From which the waters flow off to all sides : this is a characteristic required for the cemetery (smasâna) where the body is to be burned.
16. 'They cut off (from the dead body) the hair, the beard, the hairs of the body, and the nails'this has been stated above.
17. (They should provide) plenty of sacrificial grass and of butter.
18. They here pour clarified butter into curds.
19. This is the 'sprinkled butter' used for the Fathers (i. e. Manes).
KANDIKÂ 2. 1. (The relations of the dead person) now carry (his sacred) fires and (his) sacrificial vessels in that direction.
12. Narayana : By the word smasâna (cemetery) two different smasanas are designated here, because below (Sūtra 15) a distinction is added (to the word smasâna), in the words, 'This is a characteristic required for the smasâna where the body is to be burned.' Thus the place where the body is burned, and the place where the gathered bones are deposited, both are called smasana.
14. See above, II, 7, 5. 15. See the note on Sätra 12. 16. See the Srauta-sūtra VI, 10, 2.
17. Dvigulpham barhir âgyañ ka. Nârâyana explains dvigulpha by prabhūta. Comp. bahulatrina, Kâtyayana XXV, 7, 15.
18. Here' means, at a ceremony directed to the Manes. Narayana.
2, 1. In the direction stated above, chap. 1, 6.
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