Snakha Samhita.Original Text with A Literal Prose English Translation

(i8) The griefless one through the purification of his own soul beholds the glory of the supreme soul subtler than the subtlest and larger than the largest things of the world burning effulgent in the hearts of all. [...] The region situate about the root (ball) of the thumb is called the Priijapqtyam Tirtham ; the tips of fingers are sacred to the gods and are hence called the Daiva Tirthas while the region about the root of the index finger is called the Pitri Tirtham. [...] (2) (Similarly ) the Abhishlarupadd the Gdyatri Sirds with the Prayava Mantra the Stoma Suktas the seven Vydhritis the Bharunda Samans the Mantras composed in the Gayatri metre the Purusha Vraiam the Bhdsa Mantrah the Soma Vratam the Avigneyam the Vdrhaspatyam the Veik Suktam the Anrita63o Sanitha Sathhiti. [...] Mantrah the S'atarudri Mantrak the Atharve S'iras Mantrah the Tri Suparna the Maheivratam the Go-suktam the As'va Suktam the Indra Suktam the two Semans the three 7'ushpangadikas the Rathataram the Agni Vrata and the Veimadevya Mantras are purifying. [...] (4) A man would remain unclean for a single day on the death of the king of his country on the birth of a son of his daughter and on the death of his maternal uncle or of a son or wife of his preceptor.