Sati or suttee was a Hindu historical practice in which a widow sacrifices herself by sitting atop her deceased husband's funeral pyre. It has been linked...
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Look up Sati or sati in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sati or SATI may refer to: Sati (film), a 1989 Bengali film by Aparna Sen and starring Shabana...
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Criticism of Hinduism (section Sati)
and the current aspects of Hinduism, notably the caste system and the sati practice. Some of the earliest criticism of Brahminical texts, including the...
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Pyre (section Sati practice in Nepal & India)
attending to their dead, or to die. Some Hindu groups practiced Sati (also known as suttee). Sati is the act of volunteered self immolation of a widow of the...
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Sati (/ˈsʌtiː/, Sanskrit: सती, IAST: Satī, lit. 'truthful' or 'virtuous'), also known as Dakshayani (Sanskrit: दाक्षायणी, IAST: Dākṣāyaṇī, lit. 'daughter...
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Charles James Napier (section Sati practice)
in Portsmouth. Napier enforced the British prohibition of suttee, or sati practice. This was the custom of having a widow burning alive on the funeral...
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Jauhar (redirect from Jauhar sati)
associated with the meaning of jauhar. The practice of jauhar has been claimed as being culturally related to Sati, with both being a form of suicide by women...
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Rani Sati, also identified as Narayani Devi and referred to as Dadiji (grandmother), is said to be a Rajasthani woman who lived sometime between the 13th...
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the then Governor-General Lord William Bentinck. The act made the practice of sati—or the immolation of a Hindu widow on the funeral pyre of her deceased...
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Sati (Pali: सति; Sanskrit: स्मृति smṛti), literally "memory" or "retention", commonly translated as mindfulness, "to remember to observe", is an essential...
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