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Hindu beliefs and traditions  

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  • Reincarnation is the archetypical belief and cremation is the archetypical practice for death among Hindus throughout India. This has been so for centuries, if not millennia. [Source: Encyclopedia of Death and the Human Experience; Hindu Beliefs and Traditions]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-ZJWR097M-9

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