Burial of the decomposed body of a Hindu sadhu!
- 10 years ago
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust...
He died while meditating, in a sitting position! "Aakhri darshan kar lo, bhai!". Burial for a Hindu saint, as opposed to cremation. They surround the body with salt to aid in rapid decomposition.
A shivling in a temple. People dig a pit in preparation for the burial of the dead sadhu. A mixture of ash is prepared to annoint the man of god, and off he goes... His eyes are swollen up and rigor mortis has set in. His followers take his clothes off and bathe the dead body. Even kids join in to the ceremony. Then they protect his modesty with a loin cloth and rub ash onto his body.
Not for people with a weak heart, this is real footage never seen before. The footage is of the burial of a decomposing corpse of a Hindu sadhu in Madhya Pradesh, India. His followers or family members rub his lifeless body with some paste and then cover it with a cloth. This sadhu is being buried in a sitting position unlike common Hindus who are cremated. This is old footage and one can assume that the burial site must have become a place of worship by now.
This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM 1080i High Definition, HDV and XDCAM. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... Reach us at wfi @ vsnl.com and admin@wildfilmsindia.com.
He died while meditating, in a sitting position! "Aakhri darshan kar lo, bhai!". Burial for a Hindu saint, as opposed to cremation. They surround the body with salt to aid in rapid decomposition.
A shivling in a temple. People dig a pit in preparation for the burial of the dead sadhu. A mixture of ash is prepared to annoint the man of god, and off he goes... His eyes are swollen up and rigor mortis has set in. His followers take his clothes off and bathe the dead body. Even kids join in to the ceremony. Then they protect his modesty with a loin cloth and rub ash onto his body.
Not for people with a weak heart, this is real footage never seen before. The footage is of the burial of a decomposing corpse of a Hindu sadhu in Madhya Pradesh, India. His followers or family members rub his lifeless body with some paste and then cover it with a cloth. This sadhu is being buried in a sitting position unlike common Hindus who are cremated. This is old footage and one can assume that the burial site must have become a place of worship by now.
This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM 1080i High Definition, HDV and XDCAM. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... Reach us at wfi @ vsnl.com and admin@wildfilmsindia.com.