...as long as she lives or to burn herself ; and the latter * See ante, p. 320, RCD, AI — III. 31 a eventually is considered the preferable, because as...is ill-treated as long as she lives." (Chap. LXIX.) Thus perpetual widowhood and the burning of widows were customs of the land in the last days of Hindu...

...find Hinduism in its last stage of degeneracy. We are told that " Hindus marry at a very young age/1 and that " if a wife loses her husband by death, she...Modern Age. The same remark applies to the rite of Satt About marriage customs we are told that parents arranged marriages for their children, that no...

...again on losing their wives." Alberuni who wrote in the eleventh century says: "If a wife of a Hindu loses her husband by death, she cannot marry another...a widow she is ill-treated as long as she lives."* Whatever the origin of the Sat1 rite may have been, all the authorities insist upon its being voluntary....

...things — either to remain a widow as long as she lives or to burn herself ; and the latter eventuality is considered the preferable, because as a widow she is ill-treated as long as she lives. As regards the wives of the kings, they are in the habit of burning them, whether they wish it or not,...

...to remain a widow as long as she lives or to burn herself; and the latter eventuality is considered preferable, because as a widow she is ill-treated as long as she lives... The Horizons of al-Idrisi in the Eleventh Century From Kitab nuzliat al-inushtdq fi-khtirdq al-afdq,...