History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c74.t2.36

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¹³⁷² गङ्गायमुनयोर्मध्ये कर्षाग्निं यस्तु साधयेत्। अहीनाङ्गो ह्यरोगश्च पञ्चेन्द्रियसमन्वितः। यावन्ति रोमकूपाणि तस्य गात्रेषु देहिनः॥ तावद्वर्षसहस्राणि स्वर्गलोके महीयते॥ मत्स्य 107 9, कूर्म I 38. 3-4, नारदीय, उत्तर, 63.154 (reads करीषाग्निं तु धारयेत्), पद्म I 44. 9 (reads पञ्चाग्निं यस्तु) कर्षाग्नि is short for करीषाग्नि for metrical reasons कूर्म I. 38.3 reads 'करीषाग्निं च साधयेत् ' Vide Gupta Inscriptions No. 42 p. 200, the Ahsaḍ Stone Inscription of आदित्यसेन of मगध, which states that his fifth ancestor Kumāragupta plunged himself in the slow-burning fire of dried cowdung cakes as if in water at Prayāga. शौर्यसत्यव्रतधरो यः प्रयागगतो घने। अम्भसीव करीषाग्नौ मग्न स पुष्पपूजितः॥ p 203 (of the text). घने means घने सत्यापि. The learned editor was probably unaware of the provisions about suicide at Prayāga by being burnt with dry cowdung cakes in the Matsya and other purāṇas.