History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c75.237.4

v5.c75.237.4

of women dying in or immediately after childbirth or while in monthly illness 231, śūdras not to carry the dead body of a *dvija* if members of the deceased's varna are available 214, to be carried out at a sacred spot or at least after invoking the presence of tīrthas like the Ganges in the water to be used for washing dead body 217, tonsure necessary in, on first day of death and also after end of impurity acc to Madanapārijāta, others holding that it depends upon the usage of each country 218, varying views about the distribution of leaves to represent different parts of the body when an effigy is cremated 224-225, weeping permitted when body is burning, but none after cremation is finished and water is offered 218, wife of deceased made to lie down on wood pile arranged on c. ground and then made to rise up 207, wife of āhitāgni dying before him had c, performed with his vedic fires and sacrificial implements 225