For some reason the earlier lesson with the same name got deleted and I still don’t know how. So, this is just the same thing, intended to fill that ‘Dead’ link that had stayed for some pretty long time.
Corpse | लास (lās) |
Cremation Pyre | आर्यघाट (āryaghāṭ) |
Death God | यमराज (yamarāj) |
Death/Demise | मृत्यु (mṛtyu) |
Final Rites | अन्त्येष्टि (antyeṣṭi) |
For the end to come | काल आउनु (kāl āunu) |
Funeral | मलाम (malām) |
Graveyard | चिहान (cihān) |
Heaven | स्वर्ग (svarga) |
Hell | नरक (narka) |
Mourner | मलामी (malāmī) |
Soul | आत्मा (ātmā) |
To Die (euphemistic) | खस्नु (khasnu); बित्नु (bitnu) |
To Die | मर्नु (marnu) |
To kill | मार्नु (mārnu) |
Here are some more specific words in Nepali:
दागबत्ती (dāgbattī) = A rite where the son or the closest kin keeps a burning entity over the mouth of the mortal remain
वैतरणी (vaitaraṇī) = A mythological river filled with foul and disgusting things like Blood, Flesh, Pus etc. It is believed that this is the river one must cross after he/she dies.
निर्वाण (nirvāṇa) = Emancipation from the cycle of Rebirth