 | Clarence Hamilton Poe - 1911 - 312 pages
...funeral pyre. "It is proper for a woman after her husband's death," said the old Code of Hindu Laws, "to burn herself in the fire with his corpse. Every...herself shall remain in Paradise with her husband 35,000,000 years by destiny. If she cannot burn, she must in that case preserve an inviolable chastity."... | |
 | Clarence Hamilton Poe - 1911 - 304 pages
...funeral pyre. "It is proper for a woman after her husband's death," said the old Code of Hindu Laws, "to burn herself in the fire with his corpse. Every...herself shall remain in Paradise with her husband 35,000,000 years by destiny. If she cannot burn, she must in that case preserve an inviolable chastity."... | |
 | Caroline Wells Healey Dall - 1914 - 588 pages
...and master in the dialect of a slave. "It is proper," says an ancient Hindoo scripture, "for every woman, after her husband's death, to burn herself in the fire with his corpse." I quote this saying here only to advert to the power of public opinion, which has been strong enough... | |
 | Caroline Wells Healey Dall - 1914 - 592 pages
...and master in the dialect of a slave. "It is proper," says an ancient Hindoo scripture, "for every woman, after her husband's death, to burn herself in the fire with his corpse." I quote this saying here only to advert to the power of public opinion, which has been strong enough... | |
 | Ramkrishna Mukherjee - 1975 - 158 pages
...did not enjoin this custom, basing on other Dharmasastras the Gentoo Code stated categorically that: "It is proper for a Woman, after her Husband's Death,...herself, shall remain in Paradise with her Husband Three Crores and Fifty Lacks of Years, by Destiny" (cf. Gentoo Code, p. 286). And, even under the rule... | |
 | 1895 - 672 pages
...rewards in the future life were held out as inducements to this auto-de-fa. The Gentoo law-giver said, " it is proper for a woman after her husband's death...herself, shall remain in Paradise with her husband three score and fifty lacs of years ( ie thirty-five millions of years, quite long enough for most... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1832 - 510 pages
...themselves with his dead body. The code expressly sanctions this inhuman and astonishing 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 lacs (three millions and a half) of years." 734- S3 This No. i. Mr. Grant's... | |
 | 1823 - 940 pages
...as martyrs than comply with commands which were not morally wrong. According to the Gentoo laws, " dߐ0 T n ] 귴 a + } 'Z fluía burns shall к main in paradise with her husband three crore und fifty lacks of years. If she... | |
 | 1910 - 776 pages
...go to a stranger's house, and shall never stand at the door, and must never look out of a window." " It is proper for a woman, after her husband's death, to burn herself in the firo with his corpse." The subject of widowhood I cannot now enter into, but overy educated Hindu woman... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1797 - 552 pages
...investigate. " It is proper," say the Gentoo Laws, " for a woman to burn with her husband* scorpse."^ " Every woman who thus burns herself, shall remain in paradise with her husband three crore, and fifty lacks of years, by destiny. If she cannot * Bernier, who witnessed many of these... | |
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