Agniveshyagrihyasutra 3.6.3

Now then, the collection of bones.

On the first dawn, or on the third, or fifth, or seventh, or ninth, or eleventh—on uneven days, half-months, months, seasons, or years—having accomplished [the arrangement], they should collect [them].

He prepares a vessel, milk, clarified butter, a water jar, darbha grass to be strewn around, dark-blue and red threads, a bṛhatī fruit, a stone, an apāmārga plant, a cane branch, sand, two cords, and three palāśa branches.

Having removed the embers from this very cremation [place], he offers the three dismissal oblations: "Release him again, O Agni, to the ancestors...", "Unite with the ancestors...", "Whatever the black bird struck of you..."

Having poured milk and the water jar into this vessel, having sprinkled with the cane branch, he completes [the sprinkling] without decomposing the bones, with the six [verses beginning]: "Which fire we churned for you..."

They should repeat the first or the last [verse] twice.

Now, having sprinkled this cremation ground well with water-jars, she who is the foremost of his women, having untied a bṛhatī-fruit on her left hand with blue and red threads, having stepped upon a millstone, having wiped [herself] once with an apāmārga plant, without looking behind, gathers the bones from the feet or from the head, [saying]: “Arise from here, assemble your body; do not leave a limb or a body behind here!

Go there where you choose on the earth; may the divine Savitṛ place you there!”

[She gathers] the second, [saying]: “This one [is] for you!”

[She gathers] the third, [saying]: “Beyond [this] is another one for you!”

[She gathers] the fourth, [saying]: “Enter together with the third light!”

[She gathers] the fifth, [saying]: “Be lovely in the resting place for your body!”

[She gathers] the sixth, [saying]: “Dear to the gods in the highest gathering place!”

Then, having gathered it well-collected, she rolls it into a ball.

She makes it in such a way that a pigeon would not sit in its shade.

Then she piles around it with an unmeasured number of small stones mixed together; she should not pile around it in such a way that a pigeon would sit in its shade.

Then, having washed these bones with water, having placed them in an earthen jar or in a shallow vessel, she stands up beside [them, reciting]: “Arise, go forth, run away, make a home in the highest firmament!

Together with Yama, agreeing with Yamī, mount this highest heaven!”

Having placed the jar for interment, now begins the Haviryajña-burial for one whom he desires: “May he have an endless world.”

On its raised ground, strewn with sand, enclosed [with mats], he deposits it, [saying]: “By the imperishability of the earth, in the sap of the waters and plants, in the heavenly world, on the back of the firmament, on the summit of the sun, I settle you, such-and-such, son of such-and-such!”

“He indeed attains an endless world,” so it is taught.

Behind the jar they make three southern furrows.

That has been explained previously.

Behind the furrows, having driven in two parṇa branches and tied them with a weak rope, they creep out underneath.

That has been explained previously.

Without looking back, they go to where there is water.

Clothed in their garments, facing south, with clay, they bathe in the water, [saying]: “May Dhātṛ purify [us], may Savitṛ purify [us]!”

Pronouncing his name, having tossed up water three times, having emerged, having sipped water, he then worships the sun, [reciting]: “Arising from darkness...”

Then they come home.

And whatever the women say on this occasion, that they do. || 3