Volume : VIII, Issue : IV, April - 2018

THE STUDY OF DEATH CREMATION IN KURNOOL DISTRICT OF ANDHRA PRADESH

M. Venkatalakshmamma, N. Munirathnamma

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According to the Hindu religious books, death is the sixteenth and the last samskara or ceremony. The aim of present investigation is to study the death cremations, for this, the observations are in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh. I have been observed two types of customs of those who die in the family. Many steps observed in the death cremations like they ing the dead body out of the house,a bunch of incant sticks or lit a candle right from the time of death,put salt in a cloth andon the stomach,legs of the dead body are tied with a rope,incent sticks should be kept near the pillow,spray perfume,flowers or garlands and put them on dead body,from 6pm onwards, they take a log and put fire and after all the relatives come on the same day of death or the next day they start custom of burning or cremation.

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M. Venkatalakshmamma, N. Munirathnamma, THE STUDY OF DEATH CREMATION IN KURNOOL DISTRICT OF ANDHRA PRADESH, INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-8 | Issue-4 | April-2018

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