Sati (practice)
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sati-practice-166-15369248
title:
Sati (practice)
text:
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 to related Hindu practices in regions of India. Greek sources from around c. 300 BCE make isolated mention of sati, but it likely developed into a real fire sacrifice in the medieval era within northwestern Rajput clans to which it initially remained limited, to become more widespread during the late medieval era. During the early-modern Mugha
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encyclopedia
description:
Historical Hindu practice of widow immolation
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sati_(practice)
date created:
2003-10-09T21:51:05Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T13:08:35Z
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