Passage 11

In English

It was already fourteen days after the death of his father. The body was carefully preserved. The kind of preservatives and methods by which the body was preserved in those days were not such as we have in these days. came to the conclusion that he does not deserve to perform the last rites of his father. The first son, , alone should perform the last rites. said that in where does not live, he cannot stay for a single moment.