These young princes and their servants, by the employment of the most inadequate appliances succeeded in carrying out the cremation of their relation in the most perfect manner, with singular skill and remarkable dignity.
When the cremation is half completed, the contents of a tender cocoanut are placed beside the head of the corpse as an offering, and prayers are muttered.
The sanchayana, or collection of bones after the cremation of a corpse, is observed on the third, fifth, or seventh day after death.
Dom folk-lore, the story of King Haris-Chandra, who was so generous that he gave all he had to the poor and sold himself to a Dom at Benares, who employed him to watch his cremation ground at night.
The actual ceremony ofcremation follows after a period which is determined by the state of the corpse and the financial position of the deceased's family.
When cremation is complete the bones are collected into a box made of precious metal, which is buried under a tower, the height of which varies with the wealth of the deceased.
Cremation in Cambodia: The Head of the Procession.
From the moment of death to the cremation custom exacts that all visitors to the family should be housed and fed at the expense of the relations.
Cremation may take place on any day, except Tuesday.
Groot remarks that "being of religious origin, cremation is mostly denoted in China by clerical terms, expressive of the metamorphosis the funeral pyre is intended to effect, viz.
Professor de Groot says also that "there exists evidence that during the Mongol domination cremation also throve in Fuhkien.
During the Mongol Dynasty, the instances of cremation which are mentioned in Chinese books are, relatively speaking, numerous.
The time for cremation is generally at the time of the Tsing-Ming.
It appears that during the Sung Dynasty cremation was especially common in the provinces of Shan-si, Cheh-kiang, and Kiang-su.
The strongest feature in confirmation of this suspicion was the cremation of the body of the unfortunate young lady.
I could not possibly evade the duty, with three such links as a sudden death, a cremation instead of a burial, and a vast fortune on the issue.
Again, on the death of a high caste Sudra, the barber has to carry the fire to the cremation ground, though the funeral pyre is lighted by the relations of the deceased.
The relations cannot follow their regular occupation until a caste feast has been held, and some cooked food thrown on the spot where cremation took place.
The dead are, as a rule, buried in a sitting posture, but, at the present day, cremation is sometimes resorted to.
From this group of hymns it appears that burial was practised as well as cremation by the Vedic Indians.
Cremation was, however, the usual manner of disposing of the dead, and the later Vedic ritual practically knew this method alone, sanctioning only the burial of ascetics and children under two years of age.
Some passages of the Rigveda distinguish the path of the fathers or dead ancestors from the path of the gods, doubtless becausecremation appeared as a different process from sacrifice.
Helmsley was quite taken aback by this sudden proposition, which presented cremation in an entirely new light.
Helmsley hardly knew whether to smile or to look serious,--such quaint propositions as this old stonemason put forward on the subject of cremation were utterly novel to his experience.
It is not improbable that towards the end of the Mycenæan period, to which in any case the connection with the Homeric poems would belong, cremation was beginning to supersede the older practice of interment.
After the cremation or burial, these articles are distributed among those present by the Tandan, who receives an extra share for his trouble.
Self-cremation is said [62] to have been "habitually practiced by Tottiya widows in the times anterior to British domination; and great respect was always shown to the memory of such as observed the custom.
Take the nest of a crow from a margosa tree, and bury it at the cremation ground.
The wood used for the purpose of cremation is that of a mango tree, which must be cut down after the death.
The actual origin of cremation is lost in obscurity, most probably the primary idea was the purification of the body by fire.
It is supposed the early practice of the Romans was to bury, but their later practice was to burn, and cremation was held by them in honour, the bodies of suicides and young children not being allowed to be burnt.
The cremation accomplished, and while the glowing embers were being extinguished with wine and perfumed waters, an eagle rose from the ashes as if carrying the soul of the hero to Heaven.
The acceptance of cremation as a national, exclusive system brought as a consequence the institution of the ustrina, the sacred enclosures in which pyres were built to convert the corpses into ashes.
Inhumation seems to have been more common than cremation in prehistoric Rome; hence, certain families, to give material evidence of their ancient lineage, would never submit to cremation.
But while the cremation was in progress, a hurricane swept the ustrinum, and frightened away the attendants, so that the half-charred remains did fall a prey to the dogs.
In Israel an unusual lack of interest in the future life accompanied cremation of kings, if cremated they were; but the commentators prefer to believe that they were not, and that only odorous substances and "furniture" were burned.
But Homer supposes cremationand caim-burial to be universal in Greece; and his whole theory of the future life rests on cremation.
The architect has certainly exhibited much taste in his design for the building, and has provided every convenience in the internal arrangement for carrying on a large business in the cremation line.
This will be the grand temple of cremation when it is erected--a proceeding to take place in the dim future: when or where not stated.
Before this meeting, a large number of designs for cremation and mortuary buildings were brought in competition, and finally the prize was awarded to Mr. G.
This is perhaps the natural cause of the long interval that elapses--twelve months--between the death and the cremation of a Siamese king.
The grand lodge erected for the Second King and his household, at the cremation of his little niece, resembled that of his brother, the Supreme King, in the regal style of its decorations.
Within these mysterious precincts the Buddhist rite of cremation is performed, with circumstances more or less horrible, according to the condition or the superstition of the deceased.
Because thecremation is about to begin,' he tells me.
They turned me out just as thecremation was commencing.
When cremation day comes round again, however, he is dug up, taken to a temple and burned.
As he could only revile them for their misfortune and degradation, he brought a false charge against the eldest daughter whom he accused of having given an exhibition of unholy glee at the cremation of the Princess.
After this, the widow bedecked with the trappings of woe proceeds to the cremation ground.
Dauvit's argument that cremation would destroy the evidence in poisoning cases was a pure rationalisation.
I suspect that early training has something to do with it, and there may be an unconscious connecting of cremation with hell-fire.
In one instance partial cremation seemed to have been practiced, as fragments of half-burned human bones were found in a largo pottery urn.
They are not invariably found associated with human remains, though this may be owing to the fact that the bones have completely perished through decay or because cremation has been practiced.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cremation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
