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Dear Shri Suraju,

As per our custom existing for the last several decades/centuries, women are not allowed to go to the smasaanam. But the rigveda gives a picture as though the womenfolk attending the funeral proceeded (accompanied the procession of the dead body) some way up to the smasaanam, but the priest exhorted them to go back to their houses, take bath and continue their routine.

In those vedic days a man without male progeny could nominate one of his daughters or his only daughter, as the case may be, as his "putrikaa" or son. This entitled that daughter to inherit her father's wealth as if she were a son proper; but the flip side was that her first son was not to do the anthyeshti of his parents but only of his maternal grandparents. Though I have not found any clear evidence, it may have been that if the man died before the putrikaa got a son, she was to perform the funerary rights also; this is my surmise only. Smritis give the list of relatives and I think Shri Gopalan sir has quoted the same.

<blockquote data-quote="sangom" data-source="post: 168925" data-attributes="member: 13168">Dear Shri Suraju,As per our custom existing for the last several decades/centuries, women are not allowed to go to the smasaanam. But the rigveda gives a picture as though the womenfolk attending the funeral proceeded (accompanied the procession of the dead body) some way up to the smasaanam, but the priest exhorted them to go back to their houses, take bath and continue their routine.In those vedic days a man without male progeny could nominate one of his daughters or his only daughter, as the case may be, as his &quot;putrikaa&quot; or son. This entitled that daughter to inherit her father&#039;s wealth as if she were a son proper; but the flip side was that her first son was not to do the anthyeshti of his parents but only of his maternal grandparents. Though I have not found any clear evidence, it may have been that if the man died before the putrikaa got a son, she was to perform the funerary rights also; this is my surmise only. Smritis give the list of relatives and I think Shri Gopalan sir has quoted the same.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="sangom, post: 168925, member: 13168"] [SIZE=3] Dear Shri Suraju, As per our custom existing for the last several decades/centuries, women are not allowed to go to the smasaanam. But the rigveda gives a picture as though the womenfolk attending the funeral proceeded (accompanied the procession of the dead body) some way up to the smasaanam, but the priest exhorted them to go back to their houses, take bath and continue their routine. In those vedic days a man without male progeny could nominate one of his daughters or his only daughter, as the case may be, as his "putrikaa" or son. This entitled that daughter to inherit her father's wealth as if she were a son proper; but the flip side was that her first son was not to do the anthyeshti of his parents but only of his maternal grandparents. Though I have not found any clear evidence, it may have been that if the man died before the putrikaa got a son, she was to perform the funerary rights also; this is my surmise only. Smritis give the list of relatives and I think Shri Gopalan sir has quoted the same. [/SIZE] [/QUOTE]

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