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XIII KANDA, 8 ADHYAYA, I BRAHMANA, I.
men, of that the eastern quarter belongs to the Hotri, the southern to the Brahman, the western to the Adhvaryu, and the northern to the Udgâtri; and the Hotrikas share this along with them.
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14. Visvakarman Bhauvana once performed this sacrifice, and having performed it he overpassed all beings, and became everything here; and verily he who, knowing this, performs the Sarvamedha, or who even knows this, overpasses all beings, and becomes everything here.
15. It was Kasyapa who officiated in his sacrifice, and it was concerning this that the Earth' also sang the stanza;-‘No mortal must give me away; thou wast foolish, Visvakarman Bhauvana: she (the earth) will sink into the midst of the water; vain is this thy promise unto Kasyapa.'
EIGHTH ADHYAYA. FIRST BRAHMANA. FUNERAL CEREMONIES.
I. They now do what is auspicious for him. They now prepare a burial-place (smasâna 3) for him,
1 Or, the ground, which Visvakarman Bhauvana gave away as sacrificial fee. On this legend cp. Ait. Br. VIII, 21; J. Muir, Orig. Sanskrit Texts, vol. i, p. 456; vol. iv, p. 369.
• The commentator is at pains to show that 'atha' here has not the force of thereupon '-that is after the performance of the Sarvamedha-but that of introducing a new topic ('Now, they do...); and that therefore the directions about to be given are by no means intended to apply only to one who has performed the Sarvamedha, or even to the Agnikit, or builder of a fire-altar, but also to others.
* Yâska (Nir. III, 5) resolves this word into 'sman' (body) + 'sayana' (couch); whilst Prof. Weber, Ind. Stud. I, p. 189, proposes 'asman' (stone) + 'sayana' (couch). The smarâna, or burial-place, sepulchre, is constructed in the form of a tumulus, or grave-mound.
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