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III KÂNDA, 10 KANDIKÂ, 10.
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9. Some also sacrifice an animal.
10. The ritual thereof has been declared by the (ritual for the) spit-ox.
KANDIKÂ 10. 1. Now the water libations (which are performed for deceased persons).
2. When (a child) that has not reached the age of two years dies, his father and mother become impure.
3. The other (relations) remain pure.
4. (The impurity lasts) through one night or three nights.
5. They bury the body without burning it.
6. If a child dies) during the impurity of his mother (caused by the child's birth), the impurity lasts till the mother's) getting up (from child-bed), in the same way as the impurity caused by a child's birth.
7. In this case (of the child being younger than two years) no water libations (are performed).
8. If a child of more than two years dies, all his relations should follow (the corpse) to the cemetery
9. Singing the Yama song and murmuring the Yama hymn, according to some (teachers).
10. If (the dead person) has received the initiation,
9. According to the commentators, a goat is sacrificed. 10. See chap. 8. 10, 2. Manu V, 68; Yagñavalkya III, 1. 7. Manu V, 68; Yâgñavalkya III, 1.
9. The Yama song is stated to be the second verse of Taittiriya Aranyaka VI, 5, 3 ("He who day by day leads away cows, horses, men, and everything that moves, Vivasvat's son Yama is insatiable of the five human tribes'); the Yama hymn is Rig-veda X, 14. Comp. Yâgñavalkya III, 2. 10. The bhômigoshana (election of the site for the Smasâna) is
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