| On Wednesday, her body was cremated on a funeral pyre at a Buddhist temple, while her husband Josef watched silently. |
| As the torch was applied to the base of the pyre, men in the surrounding crowd cast their adornments into the flames. |
| The most effective of the photographs is Gandhi's reflective and praying mood, beside the burning pyre of his wife. |
| Let these wives first step into the pyre, tearless without any affliction and well adorned. |
| Following this the proud king abdicated his throne to his son Anandapala and committed suicide by climbing onto his own funeral pyre. |
| All of the preserved skeletal material was recovered from the burial amphora itself and not from the associated pyre deposits. |
