Samskara
Subtitle: A Rite for a Dead Man (Oxford India Paperbacks)
Contributors: A.K. Ramanujan (Translator)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: June 21, 1979
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780195610796
First sentence: He bathed Bhagirathi's body, a dried-up wasted pea-pod, and wrapped a fresh sari around it; then he offered food and flowers to the gods as he did every day, put the flowers in her hair, and gave her holy water.