TY - JOUR
AU - Bakker, Hans T.
AB -  Indo-Iran J (2007) 50: 11–47 DOI 10.1007/s10783-007-9051-0 Monuments to the Dead in Ancient North India Hans T. Bakker © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007 The funerary monument in Sanskrit literature We possess a moving literary description of what the death of a king—great in the eyes of his contemporaries—brought about, how it was experienced by the court, and which ritual and ceremonies were performed to cope with the calamity. B¯an . a in Hars . acarita 5 tells us that, even before the actual demise of Hars . a’s father, Prabh¯akaravardhana, the latter’s first wife, queen Ya ´ sovat¯ı, was so overwhelmed by grief and the prospect of widowhood that she, against the express wish of her son, committed herself to the flames (i.e. became a sat¯ı ), while her husband was still alive. After the death of his mother Hars . a goes to his dying father and clasps his feet in de- spair. The latter comforts him, recommends him to his royal duties, and utters his last words: ‘enemies should be exterminated.’ 1 The body is brought to the bank of the Sarasvat¯ı on a bier, a funeral pyre is built and the cremation ritual is 
TI - Monuments to the Dead in Ancient North India
JF - Indo-Iranian Journal
DO - 10.1163/000000007790085518
DA - 2007-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/brill/monuments-to-the-dead-in-ancient-north-india-mDXagQVNj6
SP - 11
EP - 47
VL - 50
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -