History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c72.95

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⁴⁸⁴ श्मशान has two meanings viz. the place where a corpse is cremated and also the place where the charred bones (after cremation) collected in a jar are deposited in the earth. नारायण remarks on आश्व. गृ. IV. 1.11 (अभित आकाशं श्मशानं) 'श्मशानग्रहणेनात्र श्मशानद्वयं गृह्यते । ..दहनदेशश्च श्मशानं 'सञ्चित्य यत्रास्थीनि निधीयन्ते तच्च श्मशानम् । तद्द्वयं सर्वतआकाशं भवेत्'. The शतपथब्रा. XIII 8.1.1 derives श्मशान in two ways as being a form of शवाश्न or श्मशाश्न in the words अथारमै कल्याणं कुर्वन्ति । अथारमै श्मशान कुर्वन्ति । . श्मशा उ हैव नाम पितृणामत्तारस्ते हाशुभिल्लोकेऽकृतश्मशानस्य साधुकृत्यासुपद्मभयन्ति तेभ्य एतदन्नं करोति तस्माच्छ्रशाश्नं श्मशानं ह वै तच्छुशानमित्याचक्षते परोक्षम्। अथर्व- 18444 shows that the dead body was carried in a cart drawn by oxen,