History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c72.239

v5.c72.239

Another feature to be noted is that clods were employed (and so the mound was called *loṣṭaciti*) or baked bricks in building the mound or grave over the bones by piling up layers of clay or bricks. In laying down the bricks first on the east, then on the north, then on the west and then on the south, the sūtras such as Sat. Śr. (29.1.53),⁵⁷⁶ Baud. P. S. (I. 19.4–7) four verses were respectively employed that are (in order) Ṛg. X. 18.13, 10, 11, 12 (which are also A. V. XVIII. 3.52, 49.50, 51 and Tai. Ā. VI.7.1). One of these (Ṛg. X. 18.12) speaks of pillars and the other (Ṛg. X. 18.13) of a post (sthūṇā). Vide above p 189. The discovery of two wooden posts in two mounds (at Lauriya above) in which the bones were deposited indicates that the Lauriya mounds followed a vedic custom which is mentioned by the śrautasūtras. The main difference between the Vedic and sūtra ritual on the one hand and the Lauriya mounds on the other is the height of the latter, which betokens a later age than that of the sūtras.