Sikh funerals are deliberately stripped. The body is washed, dressed with the five Ks intact, and cremated — usually within a day, at any hour, and burial is permitted where cremation is not possible. Kirtan Sohila and Ardas are said, and a complete reading of the scripture, usually a sehaj path over about ten days, is finished afterwards with a bhog and langar. The Rehat Maryada is unusually prescriptive about what is forbidden: no shraadh, no feeding of Brahmins for the dead, no ritual food offerings, no lamps floated, no wailing performed on cue, no pind daan, and no monument of any kind raised over the ashes — which are put into flowing water or buried without a marker. Sikhs therefore have almost no cemeteries and very few graves. Practice diverges anyway: families do build memorial gurdwaras and hold elaborate bhog ceremonies that function socially exactly like the rites the code forbids, and in Punjab the funeral remains a display of family standing whatever the book says. Women were long kept from lighting the pyre by custom, which the code never required and which has been eroding.