“O Munis! seeing now the king lifeless, and his son a mere boy, the ministers themselves performed all his funeral ceremonies.
- First they burned the king on the banks of the Ganges without uttering any Mantra, as his death was an accidental one due to snake bite,
- afterwards they had an effigy of the king made of kus’a grass and placed it on a funeral pyre and burned it, with sandal and scented wood.
- The priest then performed and completed his funeral obsequies, repeating duly the Vedic mantras, and distributed various things in charities to the Brâhmins, together with sufficient quantity of gold, and varieties of food and clothings so that the king may attain heaven.
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