[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [Histoire de la dernière révolution des États du Grand Mogol](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier) › [Travels in the Mogul Empire (Constable)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable) › 6.3.2 # Travels in the Mogul Empire (Bernier) 6.3.2 Travels in the Mogul Empire (Constable) 6.3.2 - **Language:** English ### [6.3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.6.3.2) She then hastened to her lover, informed him of what she had done, and claiming the performance of his promise to take her to wife, urged the necessity of immediately flying, as had been previously projected, from the scene of their guilt; 'for,' added she, 'if there be the least delay, I shall be constrained by a common sense of decency to burn myself with the body of my dead spouse.' The young man, who foresaw that such a scheme would involve him in difficulty and danger, peremptorily refused, and the woman, without betraying the smallest emotion, went at the instant to her relations, informed them of the sudden death of her husband, and of her fixed resolution to die on the funeral pile. Pleased with so magnanimous an intention, and with the honour she was about to confer on the family, her friends prepare a pit, fill it with wood, lay the body upon the pile, and kindle the fire. These arrangements being completed, the woman makes the round of the pit for the purpose of embracing and bidding a last farewell to her kindred, among whom stood the young tailor, invited thither with other musicians to play on the tambourine according to the custom of the country. Approaching the lover as if she intended to take a last and tender adieu, the infuriated creature seized him with a firm grasp by the collar, drew him with irresistible force to the edge of the pit, and precipitated herself headlong, with the object of her resentment, into the midst of the raging fire. - [Previous: 6.3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.6.3.1) - [Next: 6.3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.6.3.3) - [Up: 6.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.6.3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.6.3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.6.3.2) · Pramāṇa