Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.685

c7.685

¹ Cf. F. Hall, The source of Colebrooke’s Essay “On the Duties” etc. JRAS 3, 183 ff. (1868). Regarding the well-known passage of the Ṛgveda 10, 18, 7, quoted by Colebrooke as documentary evidence for Satī it can hardly be said that the text has been purposely distorted; at least this distortion must have taken place at a very early date, cf. Ratnākara 442. Originally of course this passage had nothing to do with Satī and the same is also the case with AV 18, 3, 1, cf. Hillebrandt ZDMG 40, 710.