Commentary for Bava Batra 201:8

והא אמר ר' יוחנן

<b><i>GEMARA</i></b>. Where are these two [chambers]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which, according to R. Simeon, are to be cut on the right and on the left of the entrance. ');">⁸</span> to project? If outwards,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Under the floor of the court. ');">⁹</span> they would, surely, be trodden upon!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' By those who have to pass the court into the grottos; and treading upon a grave is an insult to the dead, which is forbidden. ');">¹⁰</span> Furthermore, we have learnt:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Oh. XV, 8. ');">¹¹</span> 'He who stands<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., if he was carried into the court, not having trodden upon the surrounding graves. ');">¹²</span> in the court of a [family] grave is [Levitically] clean'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' But if the graves were projecting into the court, as assumed, he would have become Levitically unclean on account of his treading on these graves. ');">¹³</span> — R. Jose b. Hanina replied: They are made in the shape of a door-bolt.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The chambers are dug vertically and the bodies are placed in an upright Position. ');">¹⁴</span> But, Surely. R. Johanan said:

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