Note 2 — Chapter XV · FUNERAL CEREMONIES

While this is going on the men are busied in making preparations for the cremation. A place is cleared in a wood near the funeral place—the methkudi—and here a pyre is built of wood, some of which has been brought by the funeral party, while the rest is found near the burning ground. The wood used on this occasion must be of the kind called kers2 and the pyre is built of an oblong shape, rising about three feet above the ground.