History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c72.106.2

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6 and facing the south plunge into water and pour out one libation of water with joined hands. The Āp. Dh. S. (II. 6. 15. 2–7) lays down a bath when a person's relatives on the mother's side and father's relatives up to the 7th degree or as long as relationship can be traced die, except in the case of children less than a year old In the case of a child's death before one year, the parents and those who carry the child's body have to bathe. All the above should have dishevelled hair, should throw dust in the hair, wear only one garment, turn their faces to the south, plunge into water, offer water to the dead thrice and then sit down on the bank (of the river or pond), then come to the village and do what the women tell them to do (such as touching fire and bull &c.). Yāj. III 2 also provides the same rules as Pār. gṛ. and prescribes the recitation of the mantra 'apa naḥ śośucad agham' ('May evil be burnt away from us,' Ṛg. I. 97 1, A. V. IV. 33 1, Tai. Ā. VI. 10.1). The G P. S. (II. 23) provides that the funeral pyre is to be made with the wood of sacrificial trees, (II.