[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930) › v5.c72.95 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c72.95 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c72.95 - **Language:** English ### [v5.c72.95](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v5.c72.95) 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, - [Previous: v5.c72.94](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v5.c72.94) - [Next: v5.c72.96](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v5.c72.96) - [Up: v5.c72](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v5.c72) ## Cites (3) - [Āśvalāyanagṛhyasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.rgveda.asvalayana.4.1-11) — Āśvalāyana, Sanskrit - [Śatapathabrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.satapatha.13.8.1.1) — Yājñavalkya & Śāṇḍilya (Vedic teacher), Sanskrit - [Atharvavedasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.atharva) — Atharvan & Aṅgiras, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v5.c72.95](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v5.c72.95) · Pramāṇa