378. Before someone’s relatives gather together,
speak only of his good qualities and not his faults,
sing and sing,
and put him on a bier and take him to the burning ground
and leave him there in the forest
after putting new clothes on him,
if he sings, dances and worships the god Govindan
adorned with the Kaustubham ornament,
he will escape from Yama and join the god.
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(The words may be rearranged to facilitate conversion from poetry to prose (Aṉvayam). Please read the meanings (in black) continuously to form the sentence and understand the simplified meaning based on the Divyārtha Dīpikai for the verse.)