Around the Shores of Asia a Diary of Travel From the Golden Horn to the Golden
Around the Shores of Asia a Diary of Travel From the Golden Horn to the Golden
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Perhaps this explains why so many of these idols are portrayed so hideously ugly of aspect, for thus depicted tradition seems to have handed them down.
A last act of faith one sees illustrated at the burning ghat : here the living bring their loved dead to be burned and their ashes cast upon the sacred waters. These bodies are brought, sometimes wrapped in choicest fabrics according to the means of the deceased and laid upon a pile of faggots to which usually the nearest of kin applies the torc...h. We saw funeral pyre after funeral pyre thus alight, and also bodies being brought and awaiting their BENARES 79 turn to be cremated. There also were the stones where in former days the widow of the deceased gave herself up a willing sacrifice to be burned with her lord ; but the Government now forbids this act of suttee however willing and eager the living may be to perform this consummate act of wifely devotion.
These funeral pyres by the Ganges burn slowly, and sometimes the fires, if not fed with enthusiasm by the hired attendant (we were told he must be an outcast), are not permitted to accomplish their full mission and only a partly-burned body is committed to the waves.
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Perhaps this explains why so many of these idols are portrayed so hideously ugly of aspect, for thus depicted tradition seems to have handed them down.
A last act of faith one sees illustrated at the burning ghat : here the living bring their loved dead to be burned and their ashes cast upon the sacred waters. These bodies are brought, sometimes wrapped in choicest fabrics according to the means of the deceased and laid upon a pile of faggots to which usually the nearest of kin applies the torc...h. We saw funeral pyre after funeral pyre thus alight, and also bodies being brought and awaiting their BENARES 79 turn to be cremated. There also were the stones where in former days the widow of the deceased gave herself up a willing sacrifice to be burned with her lord ; but the Government now forbids this act of suttee however willing and eager the living may be to perform this consummate act of wifely devotion.
These funeral pyres by the Ganges burn slowly, and sometimes the fires, if not fed with enthusiasm by the hired attendant (we were told he must be an outcast), are not permitted to accomplish their full mission and only a partly-burned body is committed to the waves.
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