Hindu burial rites mandate that bodies be cremated on funeral pyres, preferably on the Ganges River in Varanasi. This further exacerbates the already critical problem of

A. deforestation.
B. the disposal of the ashes.
C. relations with Muslims who have completely different burial rites.
D. finding sacred rivers unpolluted by factories.


A. deforestation.

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