South India has prolific presence of megalithic culture. Here, we come across most of the types of megalithic monuments found in the other parts of the world. The megalithic community followed varied practices in the disposal of the dead. Some of the types are just memorial vestiges marking the place of the disposal, where as types like the cists and dolmenoid cists are enclosures erected around the funerary assemblage. We also come across ossuary disposal of the physical remains in the form of coffins and urns. The present evidence suggests that wood, clay and stone have been used for the coffins in south India. Clay coffins have wider distribution and variety than the coffins of other types. Clay sarcophagi with legs and without legs are found more often. Sarcophagi are also found in the shapes of boat, ram, elephant, cocoon, etc. Stone sarcophagi are found in the central Deccan region of Telangana. Surprisingly, stone sarcophagi is not found in any other parts of India, though such practice existed in West Asia and in the East Asian regions. Some of the dolmens and dolmenoid cists contain upto 10 stone coffins in the Telangana region. Interestingly, coffins of smaller dimensions are used for disposal of the infants and children. There are also various myths surrounding the use of the different sarcophagi. The present paper aims at collating and analysing the information on the urns and sarcophagi from the different parts of south India, and to examine the ethnographic dimensions relating to these disposal systems.