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The practice of sati was emulated by those seeking to achieve high status of the royalty and the warriors as part of the process of Sanskritisation, [21] but its spread was also related to the centuries of Islamic invasion and its expansion in South Asia, [21] [41] [22] [42] and to the hardship and marginalisation that widows endured. [43]
Source: [11] A regulation for declaring the practice of sati, or of burning or burying alive the widows of Hindus, illegal, and punishable by the criminal courts, passed by the governor-general in council on 4 December 1829, corresponding with the 20th Aughun 1236 Bengal era; the 23rd Aughun 1237 Fasli; the 21st Aughun 1237 Vilayati; the 8th Aughun 1886 Samavat; and the 6th Jamadi-us-Sani 1245 ...
When devising a terminology that could convey the salient points and practices of his own teaching, the Buddha inevitably had to draw on the vocabulary available to him. To designate the practice that became the main pillar of his meditative system, he chose the word sati. But here sati no longer means memory. Rather, the Buddha assigned the ...
Sati (practice) is a historical Hindu practice in which a widow sacrificed herself by sitting atop her deceased husband's funeral pyre. [19] Secondary burial (German: Nachbestattung or Sekundärbestattung), or double funeral.
Some Hindu groups practiced Sati (also known as suttee). Sati is the act of volunteered self immolation of a widow of the deceased husband with his corpse or remains. This involves volunteering oneself (and generally being in state of samadhi [ 11 ] ) to be burnt alive on the pyre with the remains of her husband for higher state of life.
1464: Tianshun Emperor, in his will, forbade the practice of human sacrifice for Ming emperors and princes. 1481: When king Yakshamalla of Nepal died, one of his wives refused to become sati, while other was burned. [13] 1490s: Al-Suyuti mentions of practice of substitute sacrifice in kingdom of Gobir which involved sick people killing others. [20]
Sati (/ ˈ s ʌ t iː /, Sanskrit: सती, IAST: Satī, lit. ' truthful' or 'virtuous ' ), also known as Dakshayani (Sanskrit: दाक्षायणी , IAST: Dākṣāyaṇī , lit. 'daughter of Daksha'), is the Hindu goddess of marital felicity and longevity, and is worshipped as an aspect of the mother goddess Shakti .
Sati (Hindu goddess), Shiva's first wife, and after her death, reincarnated as Shiva's next wife, Parvati; Sati (Buddhism), awareness or skillful attentiveness in Buddhism; Sati (practice), historical Hindu practice of a widow immolating herself after her husband's death, usually on her husband's funeral pyre; Satis (goddess) or Sati, an ...