Soon Hindu relatives will carry a cloth-wrapped body here. One will light the pyre with a torch.
After a few hours, silent mourners will push the bones, ashes, and bits of wood off the stone platform into the river and let it all float away.
Sadly, just downstream poor locals bathe and even drink.
Cremations are the same for the rich, but it's a bit upriver, with fine decorations and hired music.
And the rich have a shower at home and drink only bottled water. They still go to the river when they die.
Living and dying small, in Nepal.