History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c75.333.3

v5.c75.333.3

procedure of offering water to deceased after cremation 218-219; procedure of what to do after returning to the house on cremation 237, procedure for ten days after death 262, procedure on 10th day after death 263-264; procession of relatives returning after cremation arranged according to age, the elder coming first 199n; relatives after performing f. r. should touch dūrvā tendrils, fire and bull and should offer a piṇḍa to the departed 237, relatives should, for one day after rites on death, purchase or obtain food from another (house) of one kind only and without salt 238, rules of conduct to be observed by relatives (male and female) after they return from cremation and for three days after 238-239, slaves and attendants were buried with the corpses of the master in Babylon and Celtic Britain but no such practice mentioned even in early Vedic literature 256, some persons, such as the impotent, thieves of gold, women that kill their foetus or husbands, or drink surā were forbidden to offer water to deceased relations 222; some works allow a man to perform his own antyeṣṭi, while living 261, the mantra 'aśmāt-tvam' is not to be repeated in f. r.