The purpose of this article is to study have focused on death rituals and
philosophical thought in a survey of the extensive Hinduism. This paper
examines Hindu death rite and philosophy, focusing on a vedic hermeneutical
perspectives such as immortality, metaphors of regeneration, Samhita, Brahmana,
Sutras, Purana, preta, pitra, and linga-sarira. The present paper is organized as
follows. The first section is demonstrating that the hindu death rituals are
divided into three categories, the ceremonies of dying, the antye??i(cremation
rituals), the ?r?ddha(postcremation rites). The second section deals with the
deceased(preta, literally “the one who passed away”) and the sapi???kara?a, the
ritual that was originally performed after one year and is the most important of
?r?ddha rituals. In particular, it seeks to judge the process of the sapi???kara?a,
the making of an ancestor. The third section discuss that the world of the preta
ancestor has two subtle body, it is identical with linga-sarira and also called the
?tiv?hika(literally, “swifter than wind”) body and y?tan?(literally, “a suffering”)
body. Surveying what we have discussed, As I shows in regard to the hindu
death rituals, the characteristics of the preta, particularly rebirth and
philosophical Thought. To be sure, this study begins with limited in scope.
Further studies on additional researches (esp. the deification and structure and
its function of the hindu rituals of death) are needed.