Funeral pyre
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the pyre · funeral bier · funeral pyre
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The funeral pyres on which the bodies of the Seven, and separately Capaneus, are burned; the site of Evadne's suicide.
but all the rest on one funeral pyre.
To yonder pyre where lies dead Capaneus, I will leap down.
Behold yon pyre, which thou art overlooking, nigh thereto, set apart for Zeus!
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
The pyre built for Daśaratha's cremation, later the site of Bharata's renewed lament.
Others brought sandalwood and fragrant resins of aguru, the sarala pine, padmaka wood, and devadāru, and with these they built the funeral pyre.
Having placed fragrant substances of various high and low kinds thereon, the officiating priests then laid the lord of the earth in the centre of the pyre.
Beholding that reddish-grey ash, the circle of the place where his father's bones had been burned, he groaned and sank down, devastated, at the extinction of his father's body.