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funeral pyre N

funeral pyre

погреба́льный костёр m

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In the morning, after the funeral pyre has burned down, we see the young monk kneeling and sifting his fingers through the ashes. en.wikipedia.org

She tried to cremate them in a single funeral pyre. en.wikipedia.org

Overcome by repentance, he burns himself on the funeral pyre of the woman. en.wikipedia.org

The custom of suttee (throwing oneself on the husband's funeral pyre) though outlawed was still practiced, particularly in remote areas. en.wikipedia.org

The bodies were cremated in crematories excavated in the rock, where the funeral pyre stood. en.wikipedia.org

The majority of accounts describe the woman seated or lying down on the funeral pyre beside her dead husband. en.wikipedia.org

There were also claims that the body burned in the funeral pyre had been a substitute. en.wikipedia.org

Then all the women prepared to become satis (i.e. to follow their husbands into death by mounting the funeral pyre). en.wikipedia.org

Standing beside the burning funeral pyre, he sees the foreman looking at his pre-pubescent sister with lustful eyes. en.wikipedia.org

Sometimes those carrying the dead would come across an already burning funeral pyre, dump a new body on it, and walk away. en.wikipedia.org

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