History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c72.113.3

v5.c72.113.3

Then he offers on the chest of the deceased clarified butter (or pṛṣadājya) (according to some) with the mantra 'asmādvai &c. (vide above note 498). Then he prepares apūpas (balls) with barley flour and mixes them with pṛṣadājya and places portions of the balls on the five parts viz. forehead, mouth, the two arms and chest with the following mantras viz Ṛg X. 16. 7 (for the ball on forehead and mouth), Ṛg X. 14. 10 (for the two arms) and Ṛg. X 14. 11 (for the chest). Then he makes the fire flame up with the mantra Ṛg. X. 16 9 (kravyādam-agnim) towards the head of a male (and the feet of a woman). Then he should repeat certain mantras while the body is being burnt viz. Ṛg. X. 14. 7-8, Ṛg. X. 14. 10-11, Ṛg. X. 16. 1-6, X. 17. 3-6. X. 18. 10-13, X. 154. 1-5, X. 14. 12 While muttering these mantras he should throw sesame on the body that is being burnt. Then the performer should take a jar (full of water) on his left shoulder, should make a hole in it on the back of the jar with a broken but smooth stone. He should go round thrice with the left towards the burning body from the spot where the feet of the corpse lie and mutter certain mantras The jar is struck thrice All the *sagotra* relatives go round the burning corpse. Then the jar is completely broken near that part of the funeral pyre where the head rests The relatives without looking back turn to the left and come out of the cemetery with the youngest members first The performer recites Ṛg X. 18 3 (ime jīvā &c ).