History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c75.333.2

v5.c75.333.2

for one who had undergone consecration for a *soma* sacrifice or *sattra*, acc to śrauta sūtras 202-204, for ten days after death, a handful of water mixed with sesame was to be offered to deceased on the stone called *aśmā* placed on kuśas and one large piṇḍa also on kuśas every day 262, for Yati 229-231, funeral pyre is to be made of the wood of sacrificial trees 211, great importance attached to the incident of a crow seizing or eating the piṇḍa offered on the 10th day after death 264, king to arrange for funeral rites of the deceased in the absence of all relatives 256-257, lamp fed with sesame oil to be kept burning for ten days after death 219, milk and water to be placed in space for ten nights after death for reducing torments of thirst to the spirit of the deceased 340, no funeral rites for those who start in anger on the Great Journey (to the Himālayas) or who commit suicide in one of various ways 222-223, order of persons who are *adhikārin* for performing f r is generally the same as the adhikārins for śrāddha, but varies in different works 256-260, person who begins the funeral rites on the first day has to carry them on till the 10th day even if a nearer relative becomes available after the former has begun 221, piṇḍas to be offered to deceased on day of cremation and for ten days more in addition by the son or nearest sapiṇḍa 219-221, procedure of, according to Āśv gr. 208-210, procedure of, became more elaborate in medieval and later times 190;