Eski bir Hint geleneği: Sati
Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: The practice of burning the widow with the corpse of the husband is an old Indo- Germanic custom. Similar practices are notably common both in Europe and especially in Scandinavian cultures and also ancient Egyptians, Greece and Bali, etc. But the possible origin of the rite of sat a based on Hindus. Satī was a religious funeral practice among Hindus in which a widowed woman has immolated herself on her husband’s funeral pyre. In Hindu beliefs there is no other duty but falling into the funeral pyre for all women, when the husband dies.Existance of the practice sat a relies on before Gupta Empire, in other words, approximately 400 AD. So throughout history thousands of women maybe millions pass away because of this severe belief or custom. In the end, after so many times of efforts to ban, the practice was forbidden in 1829 by William Bentick the general governer of British India.
Author: KAYALI Yalçın
Language: Turkish
Topic: Indian and Buddhist Studies
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2766817643