Storia do Mogor 265.15.5

265.15.5

The wives of these great men do not marry again, though in no way prohibited. When those who followed the corpse return home, they bathe their bodies and put on clean clothes. The widow and all in the household equally bathe their bodies and remain in mourning for forty days. The relations of the deceased distribute alms of bread, cloth, and money. After forty days are over they go to the grave, where they prepare many dishes and distribute them among the poor. When these great ladies come out, as a sign of their being widows, they cover their palanquins with green cloth. Similarly, when any one of the wives of these nobles dies, there are special women for washing the body, which is placed in its grave-clothes with much special ceremony; it is carried to the grave, followed by women and eunuchs. In the case of women they do not call out the commendations to Muhammad as is done for men, for they declare that women have no entry into heaven. When a Hindu dies, they carry him to be burnt at once with a great noise of drums and trumpets. Those who follow go bareheaded, with no shoes on their feet.