:8 ON THE DUTIES 



"Dm! Let these wives, pure, beautiful, commit 

 " themselves to the fire, with their husband's corpse. 



A Paurduica Mantra. 



" With this benediction, and uttering the mys- 

 s: tic Namo Na??iali y she ascends the flaming pile." 



While the prescribed ceremonies are performed 

 by the widow, the son, or other near kinsman, of 

 the deceased, applies the first torch, with the forms 

 directed for funeral rites in the Gnhya [gi\ by 

 which his tribe is governed. 



The Sancalfa is evidently formed on the words of 

 Angiras 7 ; 



" The wife who commits herself to the flames 

 <( with her husband's corpse, shall equal Arund- 

 ff hati', and reside in S-zvarga; 



u Accompanying her husband, she shall reside so 

 " long in Sziarga as are the thirty-five millions of 

 " hairs on the human body. 



u As the snake-catcher forcibly drags the serpent 

 " from his earth, so, bearing her husband from 

 " hell, with him she shall enjoy heavenly bliss. 



" Dying with her husband, she sanctifies her ma- 

 " ternal and paternal ancestors; and the ancestry of 

 <% him to whom she gave her virginity. 



(g) Extracts or compilations from the sacred books, containing 

 the particular forms for religious ceremonies, to be observed by the 

 race or family for whom that portion of the sacred writings has 

 been adopted, which composes their Grlhya. We learn from the 

 igavata, that Vya'sa divided the Feda into four (Rich, Tajusb, 

 Paman, ttri'Afbarttan) or five, including the Itibasas or other Pu/a- 

 ??at as one Veda. Paila accepted the Rigveda ; Jaimeni and 

 Cavi, or Sucra, the SAman>Ua\ Baisampayana learned the 

 Rdju.r'veda ; Samuntu, Daruna, and others of the family of An- 

 giras, the At'Oarvaveda. " My father (Suc'ha, sonof Vya'sa 

 '.' speaks) selected the Itibasai and P u> anas ; then the several Ri'sbis 

 9 chose the FeJas variously (parts of each). Their pupils, the 

 «* successors of their pupils, and the pupils of these, became fol- 

 V lowers of particular &4c'0a V 



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