enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Sati (practice) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sati_(practice)

    Ceremony of Burning a Hindu Widow with the Body of her Late Husband, from Pictorial History of China and India, 1851. Following the outcry after the sati of Roop Kanwar, [137] the Government of India enacted the Rajasthan Sati Prevention Ordinance, 1987 on 1 October 1987. [138] and later passed the Commission of Sati (Prevention) Act, 1987. [15]

  3. Bengal Sati Regulation, 1829 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_Sati_Regulation,_1829

    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 (Hindu goddess) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sati_(Hindu_goddess)

    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 .

  5. Superstition in India - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superstition_in_India

    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 ...

  6. Chandika Sthan - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandika_Sthan

    Shiva carrying the corpse of Sati Devi. The Chandika Sthan Temple is believed to be a Shakti Peetha, [6] the divine shrine of Shaktism. The mythology of Daksha Yaga and Sati's self-immolation and Shiva carrying the corpse of Sati Devi is the story of origin behind the Shakti Peetha shrines. It is believed that Sati Devi's left eye has fallen ...

  7. Shakta pithas - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakta_pithas

    The history of Daksha yajna and Sati's self-immolation had immense significance in shaping the ancient Sanskrit literature and influenced the culture of India. Each of the places on Earth where Sati's body parts were known to have fell were then considered as Shakta pithas and were deemed places of great spiritual importance. [11]

  8. Rani Sati - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rani_Sati

    Perhaps the oldest existing Rani Sati temple outside Jhunjhunu dates to 1837 and is located at Kankurgachi in Kolkata. Hundreds of other Rani Sati temples are located in Bombay, Delhi, Varanasi, Kolkata, Hyderabad and other places in India, as well as in Rangoon, Bangkok, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan and the United States.

  9. Criticism of Hinduism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Hinduism

    Human Rights Watch describes the caste system as a "discriminatory and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment" [29] of over 165 million people in India. The justification of the discrimination on the basis of caste, which according to HRW is "a defining feature of Hinduism," [30] has repeatedly been noticed and described by the United Nations and HRW, along with criticism of other caste ...