History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c75.261

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Dead, bodies, disposal of, in ancient India had four stages, cremation, collecting charred bones and depositing underground in an urn, Śāntikarma, erection of a monument over the urn 255, embalming of, not unknown in ancient India 233, general rule in India of cremation of, from the times of the oldest literary monuments 232, methods of disposal differed at different times and among different peoples 231-232, preserved in caves, as in Rome 232n, cult of the dead, prominent feature in primitive societies 339