Hindu funeral with the family around the corpse of the deceased in wake on the Ghat near the Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu (Nepal)
The corpse will then be cremated in a funeral pyre along the Ghats, in the Hindu tradition.
This was at dawn, during the Shivaratri festival ('Great Night of Shiva').
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