History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c75.884

v5.c75.884

Sañcayana (collection of the charred bones of a person cremated) 240–244, bones of a male are collected in an urn without protuberances and of a woman in an urn with protuberances 241, collected charred bones should be cast into the Ganges or some holy river or into the sea, since the deceased would remain in heaven as long as even a particle of the bones remains in the Ganges 244, of the dead are cast at Prayāga 243; even in modern times, particularly in towns and cities, the collection of charred bones is done immediately after cremation 242; four modes of the disposal of charred bones, acc. to Sāt. śr 246n, great divergence of views about the day on which this is to be done, but many works lay down 4th day after cremation 240–241, Kauśika-sūtra and Satyāṣāḍha śrautasūtra differ in details, the most important being that the urn is deposited at the root of a tree 242; men and women (but not mixed up together) may collect 241; no S. for one whose upanayana has not been performed 244; procedure of, in Āśv. gr̥hya-sūtra 241; procedure of, acc to Antyeṣṭi-paddhati 242–243; rattling noise should not be made in collecting 241; relatives return to house without looking back, bathe and offer śrāddha to deceased alone 241; rite of casting ashes into the Ganges described 243–244, some smr̥tis made the day of S depend on the varṇa of the person deceased 241; some prescribed certain tithis and nakṣatras for S. 241, some sūtras prescribe a śānti rite called paridhi-karma after S while others do so after śauca ends 240, urn (in which bones are collected) to be put in a pit 241