1875.] G. Thibaut — On the S'ulvasutras. 265 



After having divided tbe felloe at its inner edge into sixty-four parts, 

 draw tbe dividing lines. 



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The spokes are divided into five parts, each up to the two circles (in 

 nemi and nabbi). That means : the area of a spoke is considered to extend 

 into the felloe and the nave up to the two circles which had been drawn in 

 them at the distance of a quarter from the edge, and this whole area is 

 divided into five pai'ts. 



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Two bricks are placed in each of the interstices in the nemi (the inter- 

 stices between the spokes). 



And one brick in the interstices in the nave. 



The remainder of the nave is to be divided into eight parts. 



This is the construction in the shape of a wheel with spokes, which 

 requires altogether sixteen different kinds of bricks. 



As remarked above, the third and fifth layers are to be made equal to 

 the first, the fourth to the second. 



I lastly extract the chapter treating of the s'mas'anachit. It is not 

 easy to say what would be the correct definition of a s'mas'ana in the sense 

 in which it is used in the s'ulvasutra ; it seems to be a construction on 

 which the dead body was placed, perhaps the pile on which it was burnt. 

 There is, however, no doubt about the form of the chiti, which will appear 

 clear enough from the diagram. Vide Diagrams 16, 17, 18. 



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" He may construct the s'mas'anachiti", such is the tradition. Having 

 divided the whole agni into fifteen squares. 



The area of the agni, 7-J = \ 5 square purushas, divided in this manner, 

 yields fifteen squares, of one half square purusha each. 



The arrangement of these fifteen squares has already been taught. 



As the commentator explains, the subject has been treated in a pre- 

 vious portion of Baudhayana's kalpasutra, from which he quotes the follow- 

 ing : 



He who wishes for prosperity in the world of the fathers, may construct 

 the s'mas'anachiti. Six purushas are the length of the prachi hne, three 

 the length of tbe eastern side, two the length of the western side. 



