History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c75.237.2

v5.c75.237.2

205n, 206, 212, duty to carry dead body is on the sapiṇḍas of the deceased 215, *dvija* not to carry the dead body of a śūdra 214, fuel for the pyre was not to be carried by śūdras if deceased was dvija but if so carried the pyre should be made by the castemen only 216, ground for c to be open on all sides 205, how relatives are to act and show grief after c 211; long list of persons who should not be cremated 223, Mitāksarā prescribes that if a brāhmaṇa carries a śūdra's corpse the period of impurity for a brāhmaṇa is a month but if a śūdra has to carry the corpse of a brāhmaṇa the impurity is only for ten days 216, c. of bones of āhitāgni, if he died away from home 223, c. of effigy if a man gone to a distant land is unheard of for 12 or 15 years 225, c. of sacrificer with sacrificial implements is *pratipatti-karma* of the implements 208n, 334n; parts of the body on which the several sacrificial implements are placed at time of c 207-208, performer of c rites had to undergo tonsure as an *aṅga* (ancillary part) 217, procedure of c in modern times follows that in Āśv. gr and in Garuḍapurāṇa 212, procedure of, from Antyeṣṭipaddhati, which is now followed by Ṛgvedins in Western India 212-214, procedure where a man returns alive after his effigy is cremated under the belief that he was dead 225;