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Rise Up, Woman: Death, Yama, and the Funeral Hymns of the Rigveda
Five consecutive hymns in the Rigveda's tenth book handle a corpse: they coax the fire to cook rather than consume it, send the dead man down a path two dogs guard, and tell the widow to stand up and live. One of those verses was later rewritten to put her on the pyre.