Commentary for Bava Batra 202:7
ואי בעית אימא כדאמר רב שישא בריה דרב אידי בניפלי הכא נמי בניפלי
in [a width of] eleven [cubits] and a fifth? But that [statement] of R. Huna b. R. Joshua must be rejected. If you like, it may be said: As R. Shisha son of R. Idi [referred the case, <i>infra</i>.] to miscarriages, [so] here also [the chambers in question are for the burial] of miscarriages.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Or, newly-born infants. The corner chambers as well as those which, according to R. Simeon's plan, would overlap, are to be used for burial of small bodies which occupy little space. Small burial chambers would not coalesce with, or touch the others. ');"><sup>13</sup></span> We have learnt elsewhere [in a Mishnah]:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Oh. XVI, 3. ');"><sup>14</sup></span>
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