Burned to death.....after their husbands died...........a bit extreme don't cha think......??   That and a lot of this has probably been alien vampire inspired....

Life in India: The Practice of Sati or Widow Burning ...

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Suttee by James Atkinson, 1831 (India Office Collection of the British Library (c) ... was erected at Eran, an ancient city in the modern state of Madhya Pradesh.

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Sati (Sanskrit: satī, also spelled suttee) is an obsolete Indian funeral custom where a ..... the burial practices of the ancient Asiatic steppe Andronovo cultures ( fl.

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Mar 3, 2015 - Suttee, Sanskrit sati (“good woman” or “chaste wife”), the Indian custom of a wife immolating herself either on the funeral pyre of her dead ...

Sati - burning of the Hindu widow - Tripod

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Sati is described as a Hindu custom in India in which the widow was burnt to ashes on her ... Therefore the custom of burning the widow on her dead husband's pyre probably did ... In many ancient communities it was an acceptable feature.

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The fullest classical account of the Indian suttee, however, is that by the Greek writer Diodoros Sikelos, in the first .... Suttee, or Widow-burning, in Ancient Times.

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Cultural Imperialism or Rescue? The British and Suttee

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Jul 26, 2014 - It goes back to ancient times among various peoples, with instances ... An early account of its enactment by Indian widows appears in the Greek ...

Widow-Burning - rituals, world, burial, body, funeral, life ...

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In ancient China, for example, all the categories of survivors mentioned above ... An alternative thesis maintains that widow-burning was indigenous to India but ...

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In India, the Laws of Manu, compiled around 200 CE declared that a Hindu ... Thus sati (a word that Europeans frequently transliterated as suttee) came to mean ...

Hindu wives still burn themselves alive when their husbands ...

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Jun 7, 2006 - Widows in some states of India still immolate themselves on the funeral pyre of their husbands in accordance with sati, an ancient Indian ...

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As a further proof to how a forced widow burning didn't exist in ancient Hinduism, one can see that Buddha and Mahavira didn't mention anything at all of this ...