The Law Code of Yājñavalkya 3.1.62

3.1.62

iti yamasmaraṇāt | brahmadaṇḍahatā brāhmaṇadaṇḍahatā | pretavahanasādhanaṃ khaṭvādi kaṭaśabdenocyate | na cāhitāgnim agnibhir dahanti yajñapātraiś cety etat śrutivihitāgniyajñapātrādipratipattilopaprasaṅgād ayaṃ smārto dāhādiniṣedho viprādihatāhitāgniviṣayaṃ nāskandatīty āśaṅkanīyam | yataś caṇḍālādihatāhitāgnisaṃbandhinām agniyajñapātrāṇāṃ smṛtyantare pratipattyantaraṃ vidhīyate |

—because of this statement in the smṛti of Yama. "Those killed by a Brahmin’s staff" means those killed by the punishment of a Brahmin. The word "litter" (kaṭa) refers to the means for carrying the dead body, such as a cot. Nor should it be doubted that, because it would entail the loss of the disposal of the sacrificial fires and implements enjoined by revelation—according to the rule, "They burn the maintainer of sacred fires with his sacred fires and sacrificial vessels"—this prohibition in the smṛti against burning and other rites does not apply to an āhitāgni killed by a Brahmin or the like. For in another smṛti, an alternative disposal of the sacrificial fires and implements belonging to an āhitāgni killed by a Caṇḍāla or the like is enjoined: