Note 131 — Chapter VI · THE EVIL EYE AND THE SCARING OF GHOSTS.

When life is extinct, the corpse is placed on the cow-dunged floor and then carried on a bier to the burning ground with the cries of “Shri Rām”, “Rām”, “Rām nām satya hai”,131 or “Jaya Shri Krishna”. In the fuel with which it is burnt is put Tulsi (sweet basil), Pipal and sandal wood and cocoanuts. The bones and ashes are collected and preserved, to be thrown into the Dāmodar kund, (pool of water) at Gaya or other holy waters. For three days after death, holy water and milk is offered to the spirit of the deceased. On the 10th, 11th and 12th day after death, on all the days of every month in the first year corresponding to the day of death, and on every anniversary of the death, Shrāddha is performed. Shrāddha is also performed annually on the day corresponding to the day of death in the dark half of the month of Bhādrapad.