(Exclusive of "La Vanguardia".) Friday June 15, 1928
AHahabad, 14 (cable) .- The Patna High Court has ruled in the process of a complaint lodged against ten persons which led to a Hindu widow to practice the old custom to immolate himself at the stake, the day of the funeral of her husband . They have rejected all appeals.
The accused have been sentenced to between one and ten years.
The fact was verified in a way pathetic.
Amid a crowd of thousands, the widow went to the pyre, embracing the corpse of her husband. Once ready, he told his family that set fire to the pyre. The flames quickly rose. British police came because under the law of the empire for years that this practice is prohibited and punished, but all the police efforts were in vain, against the opposition of that fanatical crowd. The victim resisted
long time between the flames and finally collapsed. Then it was submerged in the waters of the "sacred river", which is the Ganges, without releasing the body of her husband.
was taken from the waters, and thus prevent choking, but she would not resign, despite being horribly burned, to consummate the sacrifice, and did not want to remove the embers of the fire. There he continued and after three days, during which he was frequently visited, to believe it a heroine of the "sute", that is the voluntary sacrifice, died. Everyone tried to take pieces of their clothes and relics, as they are considered sacred objects.
Having seen a show banned, were also processed seventeen other personas.-Reuter.
THE TRADITION OF SATI (SUTE) IN INDIA
SATI ( Su-Thi) is the traditional Hindu in which a widow is sacrificed for her husband's funeral pyre.
A woman who dies in the fire burning her husband's funeral is considered more virtuous, and is believed to go straight to heaven, will redeem all the ancestors who are rotting in hell for this "act of merit" . The woman who committed Sati is revered as a god, and temples built in his memory.
Sati prevalent among certain sects of society in ancient India, which considered a great honor to die on the funeral pyres of their husbands. Ibn Batuta (1333 AD) noted that Sati was considered praiseworthy by the Hindus, without it being mandatory. The Agni Purana declares that the woman who commits sahagamana goes to heaven. However, Medhatiti is said that Sati was like suicide and against the Shastras, the Hindu code of conduct.
Maha-sati (hero stones) were erected in memory of those brave women who committed sati and periodically they adored. There are not many cases of marriage of widows in the history of India and believed that women preferred death to the cursed life of a widow
Women who did Sati were immortalized in India. His praises were sung and temples were built for them. Offerings are made to many memories, even after several decades later.
Many say that the wife has committed Sati by the enormous love for her husband so they can be together after death, but are not historically grounded. They are a large number of satisfaction in the aftermath of the war, when women have to die to protect their honor from the invading enemies after his men were killed in the battlefield.
Indigenous leader Rajaram Mohan Roy, through his organization Brahmo Samaj was among the first who fought to remove Sati. The rite of sati was banned by the British Government in 1829. In modern times, there are reports of a Sati in Rajasthan (late 1980), and one in Madhya Pradesh (in 2002), which caused much controversy and unrest.
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