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the water, indeed, is this (terrestrial) world: he thus places him in the deity Pragapati, in the world nigh unto the water.
4. He then says to some one, Proceed in that (southern) direction without drawing breath, and, having thrown down the jar, return hither without looking behind thee!' He then mutters (Våg. S. XXXV, 7), 'O Death, go away another way, what second way there is of thine other than the path of the gods?; I call unto thee that hast eyes and hearest: hurt not our family nor our men!' for long life he thereby prays for these, and accordingly each subsequent one of them dies of old age.
5. He then arranges him (the dead man) limb by limb, with (Våg. S. XXXV, 8-9), 'Propitious be the wind unto thee, propitious the heat of the sun; propitious be the bricks; propitious be the fires unto thee, and may the earthly ones not scorch thee!-May the regions fit themselves to thee, and may the waters be most kind unto thee, and the rivers; and kind also the air: may all the regions fit themselves to thee!'-he thereby makes every thing fit itself to him, and be auspicious for him.
6. Now thirteen unmarked bricks, measuring a foot (square), have been made: they are just like those bricks in the fire-altar. Those (altar bricks) he lays down with a formula, silently these: he thus keeps the divine separate from what belongs to the Fathers. · Viz. the pitriyâna,' or path of the Fathers. See 1, 9, 3, 2.
That is, not marked with lines, as those of the fire-altar are. As to the use of pebbles, instead of bricks, in the case of one who has not performed the Agnikayana, see XIII, 8, 4, 11.
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