Last Rites Last Rites or Antyeshti (Hindu burial service customs) are performed by the rank and faction of the expired including incineration followed by removal of the cinders in a sacrosanct waterway. Antyeshti rituals are the last holy observances (samskaras) in an arrangement that preferably starts right now of origination and is performed at each significant phase of life. At the methodology of death, family members and Pandit are gathered, mantras and holy messages are discussed, and stately blessings are readied. After death the body is moved as quickly as time permits to the incineration grounds. The oldest child of the perished and the directing cleric play out the last incineration ceremonies. For 10 days from that point, the grievers—the close relatives—are viewed as polluted and they practice specific ceremonies. During this period they perform rituals planned to furnish the spirit of the expired with another profound body with which it might give to the following life. Functions incorporate the setting out of milk and water and the contribution of rice balls. At a recommended date, the cinders are gathered and discarded by entombment or by submersion in a stream. Customs respecting the dead, called shraddha, keep on being performed by the survivors at indicated times.