History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c75.923

v5.c75.923

*Satī*, see under 'wife', wife burning herself on her husband's funeral pyre or burning herself some time after her husband's death 237, 604ff, brāhmaṇa woman was to burn herself along with her husband's body, but not after its cremation, but women of other classes could do so 237, Nāradapurāṇa does not allow a woman to burn herself if she has a young child or if she is pregnant or if she has not attained puberty or she is in her monthly illness 237, 604-605, practice of, was common to all women including cāṇḍāla women 237, Ṛgveda X. 18. 7 slightly changed was recited at the burning of, 199n