<!--QuoteBegin-ishwa+Sep 30 2006, 05:38 PM-->QUOTE(ishwa @ Sep 30 2006, 05:38 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->The ancient Hindus did know both cremation and burial as systems.
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Dear ishwa ji, thank you for sharing your insight. Your posts are always enlightening.
You did mention cremation, burial, and exposing (like Parsees). There is one more mode which is very common among Hindus even today - submitting the dead body to rivers. It is a tradition, followed in rural areas of UP/Bihar/Nepal to limited extent even to this day, that if someone dies an Akaal Mrityu (untimely death), or death of an infant etc, this is the preferred mode of last rites.
Do you have any information about historicity of this tradition? Or example of any famous person's last rites done like this? Mentions in Vedas?
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Dear ishwa ji, thank you for sharing your insight. Your posts are always enlightening.
You did mention cremation, burial, and exposing (like Parsees). There is one more mode which is very common among Hindus even today - submitting the dead body to rivers. It is a tradition, followed in rural areas of UP/Bihar/Nepal to limited extent even to this day, that if someone dies an Akaal Mrityu (untimely death), or death of an infant etc, this is the preferred mode of last rites.
Do you have any information about historicity of this tradition? Or example of any famous person's last rites done like this? Mentions in Vedas?