[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930) › v5.c72.232.4 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c72.232.4 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c72.232.4 - **Language:** English ### [v5.c72.232.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.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. - [Previous: v5.c72.232.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v5.c72.232.3) - [Next: v5.c72.233](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v5.c72.233) - [Up: v5.c72.232](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v5.c72.232) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v5.c72.232.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v5.c72.232.4) · Pramāṇa