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FUNERAL RITES
his burial, 40, 212; Mo-3ze would have no wearing of mourning and only the simplest burial, 40, 218 sq. (b) IN INDIA.
He who knows goes the path of the gods, whether people perform f. r. for him or no, 1, 68; carrying out and burning the dead person, 1,79; 7, 75; 12, 343; 29, 237-43, 355 sq.; 42, 90, 185, 297; 45, 60; unbelievers deck out the body of the dead with perfumes, flowers, &c., 1, 137, 137 n.; mourners shave their hair and beard, 2, 36; bathing for twelve days after the death of a Guru, 2, 36 sq., 36 n.; performed for a sinner who has done penance, 2, 81, 279; details about f. r., 2, 137 sq.; 7, 7583; 14, 177 sq., 180-2; 29, 236-46, 355-9; 30, xxviii, 305; 38, 109 n.; 42, 253 sq.; 44, xiv sq., 197-205; performed for those who have performed sacrifices, 2, 159; may be performed by children before initiation, 2, 186 n.; 14, 10; water libations to the dead offered by the relatives, 2, 253 sq.; 7, 75 sq.; 11, xlii sq.; 14, 27-30, 177 sq., 180-2; 25, 179 sq., 183 sq.; 29, 324, 355-7; 33, 373; 49 (i), 90; performed for a (living) relative who is cast off, 2, 278; funeral oblations offered by the heir, 7, 65; 14, 177 sq., 180-2, 226 sq.; 25, 352-5, 364, 364 n., 365 n., 366, 368 n.; 33, 193-5; f. oblation must be offered by a son, even though he inherit no property, 7, 65; plunging into water, after the funeral, and return of the mourners, 7, 75 sq.; 29, 243 sq., 246, 357; walking round the pile from left to right, 7, 75; 11, 129; 17, 299 sq.; rules about impurity, abstinence from certain kinds of food, &c., 7, 76; 14, 27-30, 177 sq., 180-2; 25, 179, 181, 186 sq.; 33, 373; collecting the bones, 7, 76; 25, 178; 29, 245 sq.; 44, 117 n.; consolatory speeches addressed to the mourners, 7, 77-9; the relatives should not weep, but perform the obsequies to the best of their power, 7, 79 sq.; give rice and a jar with water to the man who has passed into the abode of disembodied spirits, 7, 80; how outcasts receive offerings of water, 7,
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93; suicides do not receive offerings of water, 7, 93; 14, 119; a student breaks his vow by performing f. r. except for parents or teachers, 7, 96; 14, 118, 214; penance for performing f. r. for a stranger, 7, 178 sq.; their effect on the departed, 7, 189; cremation and burial ceremonies among Buddhists, 11, xxxixxlv, 122-33; 19, 322-4; mourning women, 11, xli; 42, 55, 124 sq., 127, 156, 620, 634 sq., 638; the coffin carried round the grave three times, 11, xlii; treatment of the body of a universal king, and of a Buddha, 11, 92 sq., 125 sq.; funeral feasts, 11, 131-5; enumerated among the public spectacles which the Bhikkhu avoids, 11, 192; to be performed by a widow, 14, 89 sq.; on touching a funeral pile, a Brahmana must bathe, 14, 171; the dead are taken to the fire, in that fire the Devas offer man, and from that oblation man rises, brilliant in colour, 15, 208; dance and music at Buddha's funeral, and at the erection of Kaityas over relics, 19, 322 sq., 322 n., 335; Vedic texts required for f.r. may be recited by an uninitiated and a Sûdra, 25, 61; children buried, 25, 120, 180; 29, 355; smoke from a burning corpse to be avoided by a Snâtaka, 25, 139; for those fallen in battle, 25, 186, 186 n.; cremation called a burnt-offering, 25, 187, 187 n.; for a faithful wife, 25, 198; sacrificial utensils burnt with the dead body, 29, 241 sq.; 30, 323; first offerings to the deceased, 29, 357-9; f. r. as sorcery practices, 42, 77, 253 sq., 297, 435 sq.; spells put into the funeral fire by enemies, 42, 77; the Kûdî-plant fastened to the dead, 42, 172, 436; the dead body washed, 42, 172, 436; preparation of the burial-ground and tomb, depositing of the charred bones in the sepulchral mound, purification and bath, 44, xlvi, xlix, 421-40; burning a sacrificer in his sacrificial fires, 44, 175; peculiar f. r. of the Eastern and other ungodly people,44, 423, 430; in non-sunwise direction, 44, 429, 431 n. See also Ancestor worship, Fathers (c), and Srâddhas.
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