 | Ezra Sampson - 1807 - 506 pages
...and purify their souls as well аз bodies. In the code of Hindoo laws is the following passage : " It is proper for a woman, after her husband's death, to burn herself in the fire with his corpse." The number of thU people IB romputed at one bundled mil ll'iillttr. HINDOSTÁN, ntt eMeneive rmmtt-y... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - 1813 - 434 pages
...sins, and purify their souls as well as bodies. In the code of Hindoo laws is the following passage : " It is proper for a woman, after her husband's death, to burn herself in the fire with his corpse." The number of this people is computed at one hundred million. ...Jones, Walker. HINDOSTAN, an extensive... | |
 | 1814 - 632 pages
...themselves with his dead body. The code expressly sanctions this inhuman and astonish* ing custom. 253. " It is proper for a woman, after her husband's death,...herself, shall remain in paradise with her husband three crore and fifty lacks (three millions and a half) of years." This strong recommendation and injunction... | |
 | Herodotus - 1821 - 498 pages
...sorrow." — The civil code of the Indians, respecting this strange sacrifice, is to this effect : " It is proper for a woman, after her husband's death, to burn herself in the fire with his corpse, unless she be with child, or that her hutband be absent, or that she cannot get his turban or his girdle,... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1823 - 352 pages
...of the sacrifice, that they had died in the temple, after falling into a soft and quiet slumber. 1 " It is proper for a woman, after her husband's death,...herself, shall remain in paradise with her husband three score and fifty lacks of years by destiny*"—Code ofGentoo Laict, p. 286, 4to. « Lib. vc 4;... | |
 | Robert Grenville Wallace - 1823 - 710 pages
...husband's happiness, and that it is their duty to die with him. " It is proper," says the Gentoo law, " for a woman, after her husband's death, to burn herself...herself shall remain in paradise with her husband three crores and fifty lacks of years by destiny. If she cannot burn, she must in that case preserve... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1823 - 474 pages
...falling into a soft and quiet slumber. 1 " It is proper for a woman, after her husband's death, to bum herself in the fire with his corpse. Every woman,...herself, shall remain in paradise with her husband three score and fifty lacks of years by destiny." — Code of Gentoo Laws, p. 286, 4to. « Lib. vc... | |
 | 1825 - 312 pages
...well-known custom of the Hindoo widows. The sacrifice of their lives is not peremptorily enjoined : "' It is proper for a woman, after her husband's death,...herself, shall remain in Paradise with her husband three crore and fifty lacks of years by destiny ; if she cannot burn, she must in that case preserve... | |
 | Jerom Alley - 1826 - 708 pages
...to the manes of her husband ; and in the chapter relative to women, it is expressly stated, " that it is proper for a woman, after her husband's death, to burn herself in the same fire with his corse ; and that every woman who thus burns herself shall remain in Paradise with... | |
 | Herodotus - 1830 - 352 pages
...sorrow.' — The civil code of the Indians, requiring this strange sacrifice, is to this effect : ' It is proper for a woman, after her husband's death, to burn herself in the fire with his corpse, unless she be with child, or that her husband be absent, or that she cannot get his turban or his girdle,... | |
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