History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c72.217

v5.c72.217

⁵⁵⁹ अथैकेषा कुम्भान्त निधानमनाहिताग्ने स्त्रियाश्च निवपनान्त हविर्याजिन पुनर्दहनान्तं सोमयाजिनश्चयनान्तमग्निश्चित इति । सत्या श्रौ 28 4, 28, almost the same words occur in बौ पि. सू II 3 2 This passage refers to four modes of the disposal of the charred bones viz. burial in the earth of the urn for women and men who had not consecrated śrauta fires, depositing the bones alone on the earth for him'who performs havir-yajñas (in which only boiled rice and clarified butter are offered, vide Gaut 8 20), re-cremation for one who had offered soma sacrifice and building a brick or clod structure for him who *(Continued from the last page)* had performed the solemn rite of Agnicayana. Modes of urn burial, earth burial and re-cremation resemble the funeral customs of the copper age folk of the lower Indus at Mohenjo-daro and Harappa. Vide Memoir No 31 of the Archaeological Survey of India by Ramprasad Chanda at pp. 13-14