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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).

tulajirobhyam udbh^anta/?^ viialaw nyastalakshawam i yadi vayu- prawunno va dhavaty urdhvam adho^pi va II nirmukta-^ sahasa vapi tada naikatara;?^ vra^et 11 'The mark,' i.e. 'the water or whatever else has been used to mark the even position of the scales' (Smn'ti>^., Viram.), or * the bill recounting the charge which has been fixed on the head of the person balanced ' (V. T.).

37. Nepalese Narada; Minor Narada I, 6, 3 (p. 49). I read: saptabhir ma;/^alair evam afigulana;;z jatadvayam | sa^aturviwjati proktaw sa/^zkhyatattvarthadarj-ibhii^ 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 abhij-astasya prathamaw hastala- kshawam I j-antyarthaw ^^huyan mantrair ghr/tam agnau yatha- vidhi II tarpiteshv atha deveshu lokapaleshu >^aiva hi i adityabhi- mukho bhutva imsim mantram udirayet II tvam agne sarvadevanam antaj ^arasi pavaka>^ i havya/^z vahasi devanam anta>^jantiw praya- ^^^asi II pra^^^an^ni manushya«a»2 papani sukrz'tani ^a l tvam eva