1 1. (The relations of the dead person) now carry (his sacred) fires and (his) sacrificial vessels in that direction.
5. A cow,
6. Or a she-goat of one colour.
7. Some (take) a black one.
8. They tie (a rope) to its left fore-foot and lead it behind (the dead body).
9. Then follow the relations (of the dead person), wearing their sacrificial cords below (round their body), with the hair-locks untied, the older fines first, the younger ones last.
10 10. When they have thus arrived at the place, the performer (of the rites) walks three times round the spot with his left side turned towards it, and with a Samî branch sprinkles water on it, with (the verse), 'Go away, withdraw, and depart from here' (Rig-veda X, 14, 9).
11. To the south-east, on an elevated corner (of that place), he places the Âhavanîya fire,
12 12-13. To the north-west the Gârhapatya fire,
13. To the south-west the Dakshina fire.
14 14. After that a person that knows (how to do it), piles up between the fires a pile of fuel.
17. And a bow for a Kshatriya.
18 18. Her brother-in-law, being a representative of her husband, or a pupil (of her husband), or an aged servant, should cause her to rise (from that place) with (the verse), 'Arise, O wife, to the world of life' (Rig-veda X, 18, 8).
19 19. The performer (of the rites) should murmur (that verse), if a Sûdra (makes her rise from the pile).
20. With (the verse), 'Taking the bow out of the hand of the deceased' (Rig-veda X, 18, 9), (he takes away) the bow.
21. It has been stated (what is to be done) in case a Sûdra (should perform this act).
22 22. Having bent the bow, he should, before the piling up (of the things mentioned below, which are put on the dead body) is done, break it to pieces, and throw it (on the pile).
237:12 Nârâyana: By the word smasâna (cemetery) two different smasânas are designated here, because below (Sûtra 15) a distinction is added (to the word smasâna), in the words, 'This is a characteristic required for the smasâna where the body is to be burned.' Thus the place where the body is burned, and the place where the gathered bones are deposited, both are called smasâna.
237:1 2, 1. In the direction stated above, chap. 1, 6.
238:4 See chap. 3, 20-25.
238:10 Kartodakena (i.e. kartâ udakena) is evidently the right reading, not gartodakena.
238:12-13 12, 13. The words, 'on an elevated corner' (Sûtra 11) have to be supplied.
238:14 As to the pronoun enam, which refers, with an irregular
239:18 Possibly the words devarah and patisthânîyah refer to two different persons, so that we should have to translate, 'Her brother-in-law, (or some other) representative of her husband, &c.'
239:19 This refers to the case of the aged servant. The word for which we have put Sûdra here and in Sûtra 21, is vrishala.
239:22 See Sûtra 19.
