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1805

[Funeral and Lower Castes]

Family members and relatives of the deceased person pray for the departed soul to rest in peace

The Hindu religion does not consider death to be the end of a journey, but a transition between different levels of existence. During a funeral, most Hindu dead are cremated on a wooden funeral pyre. At the time this lithograph was made, women often accompanied