History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c75.386

v5.c75.386

Graves, or sepulchral mounds 246-250, at Lauriya Nandangarh resemble in many respects the mounds described in Śrauta sūtras 254, clods or baked bricks were employed in building mounds over charred bones of deceased persons 254, difference between g of godly people and of asuras 247-248, ground of, should not be visible from the village 248, height of, depended on the varṇa of persons whose ashes were to be buried 250, pegs of different kinds of trees are fixed in different directions of these 250; performer of rites about graves return to their houses holding the tail of an ox 250, placing of bricks silently without mantras 249-250, procedure of the erection of a mound with *dhavana* and without *dhavana* including dialogue, dancing and singing acc. to Sat śrauta 251-252, procedure for making sepulchral mounds for those who had performed *agnicayana* 248-251, proper time for making 247-248, shape of, should be four cornered and not round (which is practised by Asuras and Eastern people) 247-248, not too large, but broader behind and on north side 248, should not be erected near certain plants and trees 248; size of, should be just the size of the man whose bones were to be deposited 248; size of mounds differed among 'devadarśins' and Śaunakas 253, various measurements in the sūtras provided for constructing a mound over the charred bones deposited in a pit 253; verses were recited while piling up layers of clay or bricks, which refer to pillars and posts 254, were in ancient India generally quadrangular, but sometimes also round 254