Brihaddevata 7.13

7.13

udīrṣva nārītyanayā mṛtaṃ patnyanurohati .
bhrātā kanīyānpretasya nigadya pratiṣedhati .. 13 ..

11. The (stanza) 'These' (ime: x. 18. 3) prays for long life for those who have escaped death; For the living this' (imam jivebhyah: 4) again prays (for it) for them in the ceremony with the barrier (paridhi)a. - asastre m'fk, asasta br. - me jyoga, mo jyo b, ime yo m', mo yo (jivanam ) f . - asaste m'kr, °sta f, asastak b. - tebhyah paridhikarmani br, suktebhyah pari ffkm. This sloka is found in B and m1 only. a Rg-veda x. 18. 4: imam jivebhyah paridhim dadhami; cp. Sayana; Asvalayana Grhya Sutra iv. 6. 9. 12. 'As' (yatha: x. 18. 5) is addressed to Dhatr; the next to Tvastr (6), then with another (7), 'These wives' (imah), he (the seer) utters a prayer for the women in the ceremony with collyrium (anjana) a. tayaivanjanakarmani B, taya paridhikarmani A: the latter reading is probably due to a clerical error repeating the last word of the preceding sloka, which in that case (though occurring in B only) must have been original. The preceding sloka mentions the stanza which refers to the paridhi, the present sloka mentions the one which refers to anjana.This sloka is wanting in m1. a Cp. Rg-veda x. 18. 7: ima narir.. aanjanena sarpisa sam visantu; Asvalayana Grhya Sutra iv. 6. 11, 12. 13. With the (stanza) 'Rise up, O woman' (ud irsva nari: x. 18. 8) the wife ascends (the funeral pyre) after her dead (husband) a. The younger brother of the departed, repeating (the stanza), prohibits (her).

x. 18 mrtam palyanurohati m', mrtam patyanyanurohati hd, mrtapatni tu rohati, mrtam patni nu rohati fk, mrtam patnim tu rehatim b, mrtamanvarurohati rrr - nigadya m', nigatva hdr", nigadat bfk, nigata 11119. a Had the MS. evidence not been so strongly in favour of anurohati, I should have been inclined to adopt the corrected reading of b: mrtam patnim tu rohatim, as giving a better construction: 'with Rg-veda x. 18. 8 he prohibits the wife mounting the (funeral pyre of the) dead man'; cp. Rgvidhana iii. 8. 4: devaro 'nvaruruksantim ud irsveti nivartayet; and with rohatim cp. below, vii. 130: suryam arohatim patim; Asvalayana Grhya Sutra iv. 2. 18. B 14. The Hotr ought to perform this rite, should there be no brother-in-law, because a Brahmana enjoins that (the widow) should not follow the departed (husband) a. This sloka is not found in A, but in B and m1 only. That is, by burning herself with him on the funeral pyre. On the whole history of Sati see Jolly, Recht und Sitte, in Buhler and Kielhorn's Encyclopaedia of Indo-Aryan Research, vol. ii, part 8, p. 67 ff.; cp. also Lanman, Sanskrit Reader, notes on Rg-veda x. 18. B 15. This law regarding women may or may not apply to the other castes. In taking the bow (from the hand) of the departed man, one should mutter (the stanza) The bow' (dhanuh: x. 18. 9) a for the sake of averting evil. And because these (stanzas) are employed on the burning ground at the funeral ceremony, The first line of 15 is found in B and m1 only.-The second line follows the reading of B; the reading of Am1 is: santyartham ca japatyasyam dhanurityuttaramrcam | ( japatya ° rrrr', napamtya o h). I have preferred the former, as it follows the text of the Rg-veda (qizizziai yazi) and as in A seems to make no sense. - yasmadetah (= trcah ) B, yasmadete (= dvrcah ) Am': cp. next Sloka.-smasane cantyakarmani B, smasanesvantyakarma su am' (॰svantya ° hdm', °°131º).-The end of the varga is here marked by 3 in bfk, not in hd. a Cp. Asvalayana Grhya Sutra iv. 2. 20.