Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.693

c7.693

A great contrast to this is the reference to Satis in historical works and fictions. Thus in the Rājatar. it appears to be a matter of course that at the death of a king one or several widows of the same should burn themselves with him. After the death of king Śaṃkaravarman his chief queen and two other widows as well as four faithful servants of the king mounted his funeral pyre (Ed. Stein 5,225 f.). After the death of Kandarpasiṃha his widow Bimbā enters fire as Satī (7,103). In another case the widowed queen throws herself on the pile of wood from her carriage, and with her three servants and two concubines (dāsī) follow the king in death (7,478-481).