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The eating after three days;
the washing the head after three months;
the sacrifice and change of dress at the end of the first year;
the not carrying the emaciation to such an extent as to affect life
- these regulations were to avoid doing harm to the living (by the mourning) for the dead.
Not protracting the mourning rites beyond three years;
not mending even the coarsest sackcloth;
making no addition to the mound (raised at first) over the grave;
fixing the day for the sacrifice at the end of the second year;
playing (at first, on the conclusion of the rites) on a plain, unvarnished lute
- all these things were to make the people aware of the termination (of the several rites),
and constituted the defined regulations.


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