History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c72.232.4

v5.c72.232.4

The Kauśikasūtra⁵⁷⁵ (85 4–10) gives certain options viz. the mandapa on which the mound is to be erected is either 7, 7, 5, 3 prakramas on the south, north, east and west or 9, 9, 7, 5 on the same sides in order or 11, 11, 9, 7; that in the case of those who worshipped the gods, the length was eleven on all sides; that in the case of the Śaunakīns the sides (of the mound) are to be measured in odd numbers (of prakramas) and the mounds are either round or four-cornered; that such mounds are seen (in those days) and that the grave built for one who had set up vedic fires was to be of the height of a man with arms upraised. These passages show that the graves were generally quadrangular but sometimes round also (acc. to-certain schools). The mounds at Lauriya referred to above are round.