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This article has benefited from the learned comments and suggestions of Phyllis Granoff, Yuko Yokochi, Alexis Sanderson, Arlo Griffiths and Oskar von Hinüber. The scope of this study is limited to funerary practices within the brahminical (Hindu) fold of the ancient period—i.e. the Vedic period to the middle of the 7th century (the reign of Harṣavardhana)—in northern India. Funerary practices in the South, i.e. Dravida country, and South-east Asia seem to have differed significantly from those in North India (see notes 21, 25, 79). This subject deserves a study of its own. In late-medieval North India too new forms of commemoration (samādhis, chatarīs) emerged, possibly under Islamic influences (note 79).
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Bakker, H.T. Monuments to the Dead in Ancient North India. Indo-Iran J 50, 11–47 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10783-007-9051-0
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