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  2. Sati (practice) - Wikipedia

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    According to Thapar, the introduction and growth of the practice of sati as a forced fire sacrifice is related to new Kshatriyas, who forged their own culture and took some rules "rather literally", [37] with a variant reading of the Veda turning the symbolic practice into the practice of pushing a widow and burning her with her husband. [33]

  3. Bengal Sati Regulation, 1829 - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Sati (Buddhism) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Pyre - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Forget St Patrick's Day – here's why you should head to ...

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    They circled a fire, throwing rose petals onto the flames, and sipped ceremonial wine as they called in the sacred spirits. And they let me join in. This is St Brigid’s Day.

  7. Superstition in India - Wikipedia

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    Sati is the act or custom of a Hindu widow burning herself or being burned to death on the funeral pyre of her husband. [15] After watching the Sati of his own sister-in-law, Ram Mohan Roy began campaigning for abolition of the practice in 1811. The practice of Sati was abolished by Governor General Lord William Bentinck in British India in ...

  8. Ice canoeing, the brutal sport you never knew existed - AOL

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    Fast forward to 2017 and ice canoeing is a popular sport. In Quebec they even have their own association: the Association de Canot a Glace de Quebec, also known as ACCGQ.

  9. Sati - Wikipedia

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    Sati (Hindu goddess), Shiva's first wife, and after her death, reincarnated as Shiva's next wife, Parvati, also related to the practice Sati (practice), historical Hindu practice of a widow immolating herself after her husband's death, usually on her husband's funeral pyre Sati (Prevention) Act, 1987, India