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Sati or suttee [a] is a practice, a chiefly historical one, [1] [2] in which a Hindu widow burns alive on her deceased husband's funeral pyre, the death by burning entered into voluntarily, [3] by coercion, [4] [5] or by a perception of the lack of satisfactory options for continuing to live. [6]
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 ...
The widow then resolves to take away her life and immolated herself with husband's ashes or padukas or other such memento. [1] [2] [3] The practice of Anumarana is mentioned in Kamasutra. [4] In Mahabharata, there is a mention of Anumarana being practiced by widows of Kshatriyas on rare occasions. [5]
The Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act of 1856, [9] provided legal safeguards against loss of certain forms of inheritance for remarrying a Hindu widow, [8] though, under the Act, the widow forsook any inheritance due her from her deceased husband. [10] Especially targeted in the act were child widows whose husbands had died before consummation of ...
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.
The accounts of Rani Sati's life and the events leading to her death vary widely. Her death has been dated to 1295 or 1595 in some re-tellings, [1] while others place her in the 14th century, [2] or even the 17th century. [3] One such legend, recounted by Sakuntala Narsimhan, says: [4] [Rani] was a seventeen-year-old girl of the Bania caste.
Virabhadra devotional plaque Notes. Virabhadra was created by Shiva after Sati, Shiva's wife, immolated herself during the Daksha Yajña.. The origin of the Daksha Yajña legend lies in Taittirīya Samhita 2.6.8, where Rudra (later Shiva) was excluded from the sacrifice by the Devas, then Rudra pierced the sacrifice.
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.