History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c89.245

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The Dharmasindhu provides a śānti for the extremely rare occurrence of a person coming to life after people thinking him to be dead take his body for cremation to a cemetery. The person in whose house such a person enters meets death. Therefore, a *homa* should be performed wherein eight thousand udumbara fuel-sticks anointed with milk and ghee are to be offered to the accompaniment of the Gāyatrī mantra (Rg. III. 62. 10). At the end of the homa a *kapilā* cow and a bronze vessel full of sesame should be donated to a brāhmaṇa; the bronze vessel should weigh 81 *palas* or 40½ or 20¼ or 9, 6 or at least three palas according¹²⁷⁷ to one's means.