[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [War in Ancient India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944) › c15.57 # War in Ancient India c15.57 War in Ancient India c15.57 - **Language:** English ### [c15.57](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944.c15.57) Sometimes heroic wives who heard of their husbands' death in the field were unwilling to survive them. They went to the scene of action in search of the dead bodies of their husbands. When they found them out they embraced them and sought voluntary death by entering the funeral pyre.¹⁴ - [Previous: c15.56](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944.c15.56) - [Next: c15.58](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944.c15.58) - [Up: c15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944.c15) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944.c15.57](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944.c15.57) · Pramāṇa