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QUOTATIONS FROM NÂRADA.
VI, 36.
go all of a sudden : (in all these cases) the matter in dispute must not be decided either way.
36. Now then I will proclaim the excellent rule regarding the (ordeal by) fire, as it has been declared (by the sages). The intermediate space between two circles is ordained to measure thirty-two Angulas.
37. The seven circles are thus declared by persons thoroughly conversant with the art of computation to cover a space of two hundred and twenty-four Angulas.
38. Let the peculiar signs be marked which he has on both hands, both visible and invisible ones, whether caused by a scar or not caused by a scar.
39. After having first marked in this way the hands of the person accused, he should offer clarified butter in fire according to rule, as a propitiatory rite, reciting Mantras (at the same time).
tulâsirobhyâm udbhrântam vikalam nyastalakshanam 1 yadi vâyupranunno vâ dhâvaty Urdhvam adho, pi vâ li nirmuktah sahasâ vâpi tada naikataram vraget il "The mark,' i. e. 'the water or whatever else has been used to mark the even position of the scales' (Smritik., Viram.), or the bill recounting the charge which has been fixed on the head of the person balanced' (V.T.).
36. Vîram. p. 256.
37. Nepalese Narada ; Minor Narada I, 6, 3 (p. 49). I read : saptabhir mandalair evam angulânâm satadvayam | sakaturvimsati proktam samkhyatattvârthadarsibhih II The quotations agree with Nârada I, 21, 286 in referring to eight, instead of seven, circles.
38. Vîram. p. 259. The marking of the hands serves the purpose of marking the difference between the previously extant sores and those eventually caused by the hot iron ball.
39-45. Smritik. kritvaivam abhisastasya prathamam hastalakshanam 1 sântyartham guhuyên mantrair ghritam agnau yathavidhi il tarpiteshv atha deveshu loka pâleshu kaiva hi i adityabhimukho bhQtvå imam mantram udîrayet II tvam agne sarvadevånâm antas karasi pavakah havyam vahasi devânâm antahsântim prayakkhasil prakkhanâni manushyânâm pâpâni sukritani ka tvam eva
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