Note 24 — RITUAL AND MORAL CONDUCT.[10]
W. A. (William Austin) Montriou translation
Which, in the time of our author, meant, the place of cremation. In the third book, sl. 1, 2, Yájnavalkya says:—A child under two years of age is to be buried, nor shall water be offered; every other deceased, being followed by his relatives to the place for disposal of the dead, shall there be burned.
It was certainly otherwise at the period of the Vedas (vide Die Todtenbestattung im indischen Alterthum. German Oriental Society's Journal, Vol. VIII. pp. 467—475): the paraphrase in the text is the meaning of the term used, smasána.