Manava Dharmashastra 4.241

4.241

saha gacchati | idaṃ pratyakṣasiddhaprasaṃkhyānārthamucyate | mṛtasya śarīraṃ citāvutsṛjya kāṣṭhamiva niṣprayojanaṃ vimukhā bāndhavāḥ pratigacchanti | dharmastu kevalaṃ puruṣamanugacchati |

Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
‘Follows’—accompanies.

This verse describes what is actually seen to happen. Relations throw away the body of the dead man on the ground, just as if it were a log of wood, or a clod of earth, and go away, with their faces turned away; but Spiritual Merit alone follows the man.—(241)