Mueller, _ib_.IX.p.

I (_sic_), has given a thorough account of the later ritual and ritualistic paraphernalia.

We confine ourselves here to the older ceremony.
The scene of the Vedic hymn is as follows: The friends and relatives stand about the corpse of a married man.

By the side of the corpse sits the widow.

The hymn begins: "Depart, O Death, upon some other pathway, upon thy path, which differs from the path of gods ...