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5 line on sati practice

Answer 1

Answer:

• The ancient Hindu tradition is known as Sati.
• Wherein a widow would throw herself on her husband's pyre and burn to death, was initially a voluntary act considered courageous and heroic, but it later became a forced practice.
• Sati in India can be found in stone seals and inscriptions known as 'satigals' dating back to 7000 BCE.
• The Bengal Sati Regulation which banned the Sati practice in all jurisdictions of British India was passed on December 4, 1829 by the then Governor-General Lord William Bentinck.
• Although sati is now banned all over India, it has a dark history.

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Answer 2

Explanation:

1. The ancient Hindu tradition called sati, wherein a widow would throw herself on her husband's pyre and burn to death, was initially a voluntary act considered courageous and heroic, but it later became a forced practice. Although sati is now banned all over India, it has a dark history.
2. Yang believes that Sati was not practiced by all Hindus but rather by some lineages and mostly by lower-income families. But that did not stop it from being a prevalent ritual. However, the earliest evidence of Sati in India can be found in stone seals and inscriptions known as 'satigals' dating back to 7000 BCE.
3. Suttee, Sanskrit sati (“good woman” or “chaste wife”), the Indian custom of a wife immolating herself either on the funeral pyre of her dead husband or in some other fashion soon after his death. ... Although never widely practiced, suttee was the ideal of womanly devotion held by certain Brahman and royal castes.
4. It condemned social evils such as casteism, untouchability, child marriage and the Sati system. It was due to the efforts of Raja Ram mohan Roy that Lord William Bentick abolished Sati system in 1829 by declaring it an offence.
5. Sati means virtuous woman. It was the ritual of Hindus in which the widowed women have to burn them in the funeral pyre of their husbands. The women who do this were praised. It was believed that if the woman will follow this ritual, she would be liked by the god.