The idea of consuming the king's corpse in the absence of his son did not recommended itself to the assembled. adherents (of the departed). Thinking this, they in that way laid the king endowed with an inconceivably dignified presence.
नारोचयस्ते सुहृदः समागताः। इतीव तस्मिशयने न्यवेशयन् विचिन्त्य राजानमचिन्त्यदर्शनम्॥