Ancient Indian Colonization in South-East Asia c10.86

c10.86

High ideals of conjugal relation are held in literature and we also come across actual examples in life. The *Satī* system prevailed, at least in Bali, though in later periods it came to be confined to royal families, where sometimes even the slaves and concubines of the dead perished with him. In some cases the wife first killed herself by the sword and then her body was placed on the funeral pyre.