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2 54 QUOTATIONS FROM NARADA. VI, 36.
go all of a sudden : (in all these cases) the matter in
dispute must not be decided either way.
36. Now then I will proclaim the excellent rule
regarding the (ordeal by) fire, as it has been declared
(by the sages). The intermediate space between two
circles is ordained to measure thirty-two Angulas.
37. The seven circles are thus declared by persons
thoroughly conversant with the art of computation
to cover a space of two hundred and twenty-four
Angulas.
38. Let the peculiar signs be marked which he
has on both hands, both visible and invisible ones,
whether caused by a scar or not caused by a scar.
39. After having first marked in this way the
hands of the person accused, he should offer clarified
butter in fire according to rule, as a propitiatory rite,
reciting Mantras (at the same time).
tulasirobhyam udbhrantazzz viZalazzz nyastalakshazzam I yadi vayu-
prazzunno va dhavaty urdhvam adho-'pi va II nirmuktaZz sahasa vapi
tada naikatarazzz vraget II ‘The mark,’ i. e. ‘the water or whatever
else has been used to mark the even position of the scales’ (Smz-ztiT,
Viram.), or ‘the bill recounting the charge which has been fixed
on the head of the person balanced’ (V. T.).
36. Viram. p. 256.
37. Nepalese Narada; Minor Narada I, 6, 3 (p. 49). I read :
saptabhir mazzz/alair evam ahgulanazzz jatadvayam I saZ’aturvizzzsati
proktazzz sazzzkhyatattvarthadanribhiZz II The quotations agree with
Narada I, 21, 286 in referring to eight, instead of seven, circles.
38. Viram. p. 259. The marking of the hands serves the pur-
pose of marking the difference between the previously extant sores
and those eventually caused by the hot iron ball.
39-45. Smrzti^. krz’tvaivam abhffastasya prathamazzz hastala-
kshazzam 1 jantyarthazzz guhuyan mantrair ghrz’tam agnau yatha-
vidhi II tarpiteshv atha deveshu lokapaleshu Z’aiva hi l adityabhi-
mukho bhutva imazzz mantram udirayet II tvam agne sarvadevanam
anta^ Zzarasi pavakaZz I havyazzz vahasi devanam anta/z^antizzz praya-
ZZZzasi 11 praZT/zanani manushyazzazzz papani sukrztani Z’a 1 tvam eva
go all of a sudden : (in all these cases) the matter in
dispute must not be decided either way.
36. Now then I will proclaim the excellent rule
regarding the (ordeal by) fire, as it has been declared
(by the sages). The intermediate space between two
circles is ordained to measure thirty-two Angulas.
37. The seven circles are thus declared by persons
thoroughly conversant with the art of computation
to cover a space of two hundred and twenty-four
Angulas.
38. Let the peculiar signs be marked which he
has on both hands, both visible and invisible ones,
whether caused by a scar or not caused by a scar.
39. After having first marked in this way the
hands of the person accused, he should offer clarified
butter in fire according to rule, as a propitiatory rite,
reciting Mantras (at the same time).
tulasirobhyam udbhrantazzz viZalazzz nyastalakshazzam I yadi vayu-
prazzunno va dhavaty urdhvam adho-'pi va II nirmuktaZz sahasa vapi
tada naikatarazzz vraget II ‘The mark,’ i. e. ‘the water or whatever
else has been used to mark the even position of the scales’ (Smz-ztiT,
Viram.), or ‘the bill recounting the charge which has been fixed
on the head of the person balanced’ (V. T.).
36. Viram. p. 256.
37. Nepalese Narada; Minor Narada I, 6, 3 (p. 49). I read :
saptabhir mazzz/alair evam ahgulanazzz jatadvayam I saZ’aturvizzzsati
proktazzz sazzzkhyatattvarthadanribhiZz II The quotations agree with
Narada I, 21, 286 in referring to eight, instead of seven, circles.
38. Viram. p. 259. The marking of the hands serves the pur-
pose of marking the difference between the previously extant sores
and those eventually caused by the hot iron ball.
39-45. Smrzti^. krz’tvaivam abhffastasya prathamazzz hastala-
kshazzam 1 jantyarthazzz guhuyan mantrair ghrz’tam agnau yatha-
vidhi II tarpiteshv atha deveshu lokapaleshu Z’aiva hi l adityabhi-
mukho bhutva imazzz mantram udirayet II tvam agne sarvadevanam
anta^ Zzarasi pavakaZz I havyazzz vahasi devanam anta/z^antizzz praya-
ZZZzasi 11 praZT/zanani manushyazzazzz papani sukrztani Z’a 1 tvam eva