Samskara
Subtitle: A Rite of a Dead Man
Contributors: A.K. Ramanujan (Translator)
Publisher: OUP India
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780195623888
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.