- Sati or
suttee is a
Hindu practice in
which a
widow should sacrifice herself by
sitting atop her
deceased husband's
funeral pyre. It has been
linked to...
-
Barbara Ann
Sutteer (Booher) is an
American retired National Park
Service (NPS) employee.
Sutteer worked for the
Federal Aviation Administration and the...
- 1886 Samavat; and the 6th Jamadi-us-Sani 1245 Hegira. I. The
practice of
suttee, or of
burning or
burying alive the
widows of Hindus, is
revolting to the...
- will be read a
century hence: if they were all
burnt as the
grandest of
Suttees on his
funeral pile, it
would be only like
cutting down an oak
after its...
- *h₁es- ("to be");
compare Old
English sōþ ("true"; see sooth).
Doublet of
suttee. Baháʼís
consider humans to be
naturally good,
fundamentally spiritual beings...
-
religious practices like
human sacrifice or the
obsolete Hindu practice of
suttee. The
Court stated that to rule otherwise, "would be to make the professed...
- and Culture,
Cambridge University Press, Vol. 25, No. 1, p. 141, Quote: "
Suttee, or sati, is the
obsolete Hindu practice in
which a
widow burns herself...
- genuine; sincere, honest, valid"; satī́ "good, virtuous,
faithful wife" (>
suttee) senë/send”thing” gjë “thing” < all from PAlb *sana *sweh₂d-, swéh₂dus "sweet"...
-
information about Perfumerie Devalier. In
Ancient India, a
heinous widow commits suttee, a
ritual of self-immolation.
Alobar consoles a
young girl, Kudra, who was...
- Sir John
Malcolm to
induce the
Hindus to
acquiesce in the
suppression of
suttee or widow-burning, and his
efforts also paid off
after the
Hindu community...
