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The *grihān* means a dwelling-house with many chambers and implies that 'the funeral structure was either an actual house (mausoleum) with many rooms, erected over or beside the grave in memory of the deceased, and for the benefit of his soul dedicated to some religious order or philanthropic use.'¹ Its extensiveness is indicated by its other epithet, *harmya*, which has been frequently used in the early Vedic literature to imply a nobleman's residence and the king's palace.²