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HINDU FUNERAL RITES
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into some brook of running water. On the spot where the body has been burned, they raise a monument similar to a mile-stone, plastered with gypsum. The bodies of children under three years are not burned. Those who fulfil these duties toward the dead afterwards wash both themselves and their clothing for two days, because they have become unclean by touching the dead. Those who cannot afford to burn their dead throw them either somewhere on the open field or into running water.

ON THE BANKS OF THE GANGES IN BENARES.

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