History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c75.237.1

v5.c75.237.1

Cremation, see under effigy' 'death,' 'burial' 'fires,' 'dead bodies', 'funeral rites,' 'sacrifice', 'tonsure,' acc to Brahmapurāṇa great noise should be made with four kinds of musical instruments when taking a corpse for 217, at end of c relatives take a bath, offer water to deceased and on entering house touch a stone, a bull, fire, cowdung, fried barley 210, bamboo staff with a bundle of grass at its top was carried to cremation ground acc to Kāt Śr. 205n; bath for all relatives on mother's and father's side up to 7th degree (except for a child less than one year old) necessary on c. 211, brahmacārin was not to carry the dead body of a person or relative except of his own parents or of guru or ācārya 214, brahmacārin carrying dead body of a person other than that, of a parent or guru had to undergo expiation for vratatopa 215, carrying the dead body of a brāhmaṇa who is poor and without relatives is highly extolled as equal to a sacrifice at each step 215; cow or goat was taken to c. ground with its left fore-foot tied with a rope, was killed and corpse covered with its body 206, corpse should be first bathed and then cremated but not naked 216, dead body was not to be carried through a village when being taken for c 216, dead body was carried to c. ground in a cart drawn by oxen acc. to Atharvaveda or by men, acc to Sat Śr.