[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Religion and philosophy](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion) › [The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925) › v2.c35.10 # The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads v2.c35.10 The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads v2.c35.10 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c35.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c35.10) ⁷ iv. 5. 2. 13. A similar custom is recorded of the Colchians (Ap. Rhod. iii. 200 ff.), who buried women. Cook (\*Zeus\*, i. 533, 534) conjectured that it was to bestow life on the tree or on the dead; and elsewhere (p. 687) adopts the view that trees planted round graves were originally homes for the spirits of the dead. Zimmer (\*l. c.\*) thinks the reference is to persons exposed in old age to death as among the Massagetae and others (\*ibid.\*, p. 328). - [Previous: v2.c35.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c35.9) - [Next: v2.c35.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c35.11) - [Up: v2.c35](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c35) ## Cites (1) - [Śatapathabrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.satapatha.4.5.2.13) — Yājñavalkya & Śāṇḍilya (Vedic teacher), Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c35.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c35.10) · Pramāṇa