Noun:

பிணம் சுடதல்,

cremation தமிழ் அர்த்தத்தின் உதாரணம்:

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cremation's Usage Examples:

Among these the cremation ceremonies are especially conspicuous.

(8) Excavated tombs, of either the pit or the grotto kind, in which the dead were laid, together with various objects of use and luxury, without cremation, and in either coffins or loculi or simple wrappings.

A group of Italic cremation tombs a pozzo of the Villanova period were found under the pavement of the medieval Vicolo del Campidoglio.

The more exalted the personage the longer, as a rule, is the body kept before cremation.

But after cremation came in a mourning procession of servants and chiefs carrying the body to the funeral pyre to be burnt by the demondressed priests, after which the crowd of wives and slaves were exhorted to serve their lord faithfully in the next world, were sacrificed and their bodies burnt.

Vessels of clay, more or less ornate in character, which occur with these early interments of unburnt bodies, have been regarded as food-vessels and drinking-cups, differing in character and purpose from the cinerary urns of larger size in which the ashes of the dead were deposited after cremation.

Pre-eminent among these is the discovery, by Mr William Peppe, on the Birdpur estate, adjoining the boundary between English and Nepalese territory, of the stupa, or cairn, erected by the Sakiya clan over their share of the ashes from the cremation pyre of the Buddha.

It was immediately after the latter had conducted the second postmortem, on 19 May, that the body was released for cremation.

A crematorium was completed in 1909, and cremation instead of interment has since been urged by the District commissioners.

illumined only by the terrible flames of the cremation pyres.

After the 6th century cremation seems not to have been common, if we may trust the sagas, but isolated instances occur as late as the 10th century.

Synonyms:

incineration,

Antonyms:

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