SATI IS NOT A HINDU CUSTOM :- Mythologically, Sathi was practised when the widows jumped on to the burning pyre due to inseparable attachment and devotion to Pathi or husband and these women were Pathivratas, who believed to be with their husbands in life and death. Historically, the practice of Sati started with Muslim invasion of India when several widows had no alternative but to burn themselves to avoid being married to the abhorrent Muslim invaders [Similar to ISIS] who treat women like animals for their pleasure. Have you ever analysed why Sathi has been practised only in Rajasthan and contiguous parts in Haryana, Madhya Pradesh and northern parts of Gujarat? Why is that Sathi has never been practised in the other parts of Indian or in Southern peninsula? Because this has never been a Hindu custom which otherwise would have been observed all over India!! The brunt of Islamic attacks and plunders, rapes of women was born by border States like Punjab and Rajasthan and the Rajastani women esp. widowed during the wars with Muslims often resorted to Jauhar or burning themselves in groups to avoid getting caught by Muslims. To call Sathi a practice of Hinduism is absurd to to extrapolate the mythological stories to support this theory is still atrocious. Thanks & Regards, Sudhir Srinivasan B.Arch, MSc.CPM, Dip.ID, Dip.CAD, Dip.PM | Architect | -- From WIKIPEDIA:- SATI PRACTICE :- Sati (Devanagari: सती, the feminine of sat true; also spelled suttee)[3] refers to a funeral ritual within some Asian communities in which a recently widowed woman immolates herself, typically on the husbands funeral pyre. Mention of the practice can be dated back to 4th century BCE. While evidence of practice only appears from the 5th - 9th centuries CE. Practice is considered to have been originated within the warrior aristocracy on the Indian subcontinent, gradually gaining in popularity from the 10th century CE to other groups and becoming generally sanctioned/recommended by the doctrines around the 12th century CE. With the military expansions outside of Indian subcontinent, the practice has been attested to have been practiced in a number of localities in Southeast Asia, such as at Indonesia. The practice was outlawed by the British Raj in 1829 within their own territories in India (the collected statistics from their own regions suggesting an estimated of 500–600 instances of sati per year), followed up by laws in the same directions by the authorities in the princely states of India in the ensuing decades, with a general ban for the whole of India issued by Queen Victoria in 1861. In Nepal, sati was not banned until 1920. The Indian Sati Prevention Act from 1987 further criminalizing any type of aiding, abetting, and even the glorifying of sati practice.
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