What is the reason behind, DISSOLVING DEAD ASHES?

Question

in water (Ganga)?

One explanation is that, the human body form is within a "Circle" that looks like an egg, when the two hands are raised it forms two points அ, இ i.e., how you came from, and what is your identity, will be "NAILED" in the form of two points of Y, so the energy must seep down through your sexual organs located at the mid section of the "V" through the Y to the place of உ which represents a snake or a நூல் , that is it says that you will be DRAGGED in DEAD format, into a fire, where you will be burnt. Your ashes will be dissolved in sea, so the sea can evaporate it and return your PRANAVA energy back to the air.

Is there another explanation?

Answer 1

The body is made up of 5 elements .(primordial ones). air, fire, water, earth and akasa(ether). When the body is burnt the fire mixes with fire, water evaporates, Air escapes into air, the earth becomes the earthly elements. But the bones do not get destroyed fully. Few pieces still remain after the ash cools down.
It is said that the whole of what is taken has to be given back or else the missing portion will be missing from the next body.To avoid this the reminder bones are collected(asti sanchayana)
and dissolved into a fast flowing river. The bones get crushed and mix with the earth.

Answer 2

to the filipinos we have what you call a "munungul jar" in the primitive times, they used it to put in the burnt bones of the people and their slaves since they believed in life after death they would put things of the people who died in the jar so they can use it in the other life same with the slaves once your master has died they would kill you so you can serve them in the after life and also on the jar's lid there is a boat and two men on it meaning that their travel to the life after death and the one who died and his slave.

Answer 3

I certainly hope so as I don't understand the first one.

http://www.csuchico.edu/~cheinz/syllabi/asst001/spring98/ganges.htm