History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c75.333.4

v5.c75.333.4

when deceased had not kept śrauta fires 210-211, toes and thumbs of the corpse were tied with a white thread or the fringe of a garment in, 204, throwing of *aśmā* into water after anointing it with oil 264, urn containing bones was supported by wooden post 201n, varied acc to the śrauta or gṛhya sūtra, or acc as the deceased was an āhitāgni or not, or acc as the deceased was a woman or child or an ascetic or died in a distant land or by accident or committed suicide 190; verses of Ṛgveda X. 14-18 were employed by most of the sūtras, are used even now in cremation rites and occur in other Vedic saṁhitās 191; views differ as to the stoppage of certain actions for ten or twelve days after death by relatives 239-240, what fire cannot be used in f. r 210, what the relatives and those who carried the corpse though no relatives were to do on day of cremation and one day thereafter 238, what is stopped for ten days after death is performance of kāmya rites, giving and accepting gifts, homa and vedic study, but nitya and naimittika acts to be performed in vedic and smārta fires are to be performed through another 239, women could, in default of son or male sapiṇḍas of the deceased, perform f. r. of their husbands or father, father-in-law, brother but without vedic mantras, acc.