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‘The ceremony performed after the burning of dead bodies is saṁchayana, in which, after collecting the bones, a portion of the ashes is grouped into a human form and baśāli or food offered to it. I take the smaśāna-chaitya alluded to in no. 9, to be a monumental building erected on such spot in memory of departed kings and other great personages.’