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# Kaushitakagrihyasutra 5.6: atha ṣaṣṭhaḥ khaṇḍaḥ

Kauṣītakagṛhyasūtra 5.6

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### atha ṣaṣṭhaḥ khaṇḍaḥ

### [5.6.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.kausitaka.5.6.1)

purāṇe kumbhe śarīrāṇyopya upasarpa mātaramiti tisṛbhiraraṇye nikhananti \1\

> Having poured the bones into an old jar, they bury them in the forest with the three \[verses\]: 'Approach this mother \[earth\]...'  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [5.6.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.kausitaka.5.6.2)

utte stabhnāmi iti loṣṭenāpidhāya \2\

> Having covered it with a clod of earth with: 'I brace \[the earth\] above you...'  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [5.6.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.kausitaka.5.6.3)

pravasatastu pretasyāpi vānyavatsāyāḥ payasā tūṣṇīṃnyāyamagnihotram \3\

> If \[he dies\] while on a journey, the deceased \[man's\] Agnihotra is performed silently with the milk of a cow that has another calf;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [5.6.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.kausitaka.5.6.4)

adhastāddhāraṇaṃ samidhaḥ \4\

> the holding of the kindling wood is \[done\] below.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [5.6.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.kausitaka.5.6.5)

ā śarīrāṇāṃ aṅgamādadarśane śarīrāṇāṃ catvāriṃśacchirasi grīvāyāṃ daśāṃsānvāṃsayoḥ bāhubhyāṃ śatamaṅgulībhirdaśorasi triṃśajjaṭhare viṃśatiḥ ṣaḷ vṛṣaṇayoḥ śiśne catvāryūrubhyāṃ śataṃ triṃśajjānujaṅghāṣṭhīvatoḥ pādato 'ṅgulībhirdaśa \ evaṃ trīṇi ṣaṣṭiśatāni palāśavṛntānāmāhṛtya puruṣākṛtiṃ kṛtvorṇāsūtraiḥ pariveṣṭya yavacūrṇaiḥ parilipya sarpiṣā sannīya dīpanaprabhṛti samānam \5\

> Until the appearance of a limb of the bones: forty \[palāśa leaf-stalks\] for the bones of the head, ten on the neck, shoulder-blades on the two shoulders, one hundred for the two arms, ten with the fingers, thirty on the chest, twenty on the belly, six on the testicles, four on the penis, one hundred for the two thighs, thirty for the knees, shanks, and kneecaps, ten with the toes from the feet. Having thus brought three hundred and sixty leaf-stalks of the palāśa tree, having formed the shape of a man, having wrapped it with woolen threads, having smeared it all over with barley meal mixed with clarified butter, from the kindling onward \[the rite\] is the same.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [5.6.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.kausitaka.5.6.6)

icchanpatnīṃ pūrvamāriṇīmagnibhiḥ saṃskṛtya sāntapanena vānyāmānīya tataḥ punarādadhīta \\6\\

> If he wishes, having cremated with the sacred fires the wife who died before \[him\], or having brought another with the Sāntapana fire, he should then set up the fires again.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.kausitaka~en-mt.5.6.1) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (1)

- [Śāṅkhāyanaśrautasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.srauta.sankhayana.4.15.23.p1) — Śāṅkhāyana, Sanskrit

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