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    Sati or suttee was a Hindu historical practice in which a widow should sacrifice herself by sitting atop her deceased husband's funeral pyre. It has been...
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  • and the current aspects of Hinduism, notably the caste system and the sati practice. Some of the earliest criticism of Brahminical texts, including the...
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  • Look up Sati or sati in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sati or SATI may refer to: Sati (film), a 1989 Bengali film by Aparna Sen and starring Shabana...
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    attending to their dead, or to die. Some Hindu groups practiced Sati (also known as suttee). Sati is the act of volunteered self immolation of a widow of the...
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  • Sati (Pali: sati; Sanskrit: स्मृति smṛti), literally "memory" or "retention", commonly translated as mindfulness, "to remember to observe", is an essential...
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    Sati (/ˈsʌtiː/, Sanskrit: सती, IAST: Satī, lit. 'truthful' or 'virtuous'), also known as Dakshayani (Sanskrit: दाक्षायणी, IAST: Dākṣāyaṇī, lit. 'daughter...
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    in Portsmouth. Napier enforced the British prohibition of suttee, or sati practice. This was the custom of having a widow burning alive on the funeral...
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    Jauhar (redirect from Jauhar sati)
    associated with the meaning of jauhar. The practice of jauhar has been claimed as being culturally related to Sati, with both being a form of suicide by women...
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    the then Governor-General Lord William Bentinck. The act made the practice of sati—or the immolation of a Hindu widow on the funeral pyre of her deceased...
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  • Rani Sati, also identified as Narayani Devi and referred to as Dadiji (grandmother), is said to be a Rajasthani woman who lived sometime between the 13th...
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    continuance of this practice (sati) one moment longer." Bentinck after consultation with the army and officials passed the Bengal Sati Regulation, 1829....
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    [citation needed] Shekhawat played the most crucial role in removing Sati (practice) from Rajasthan as a part of their culture, especially among Rajput...
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  • Scholars state that Vedic-era Hindu texts did not have the practice of Dowry or Sati. These practices likely became widespread sometime in the 2nd millennium...
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    Moscow. Sati was born in Kabardino-Balkaria and her ethnicity is Adyge. She is a now Hindu and a vegetarian and practices yoga. On 8 October 2017 Sati Kazanova...
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    Shakta pithas (redirect from Sati Pith)
    The Shakta pithas, Shakti pithas or Sati pithas (Sanskrit: शाक्त पीठ, Śakta Pīṭha, seats of Shakti) are significant shrines and pilgrimage destinations...
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  • Roop Kanwar (category People who committed sati)
    Indian Rajput woman who was allegedly forced to immolate herself in an act of Sati at Deorala village of Sikar district in Rajasthan, India. At the time, she...
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  • or territory Lynching Memini Namus Premarital sex Religious violence Sati (practice) Slut-shaming Universal Declaration of Human Rights Violence against...
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  • contents of one's own mind in the present moment. Mindfulness derives from sati, a significant element of Hindu and Buddhist traditions, and is based on...
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  • descendants left of the Koch dynasty. He is noted for having banned Sati practice in his state. He had founded Jenkins School in Koch Bihar in 1861, which...
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    of his grandmothers left British India after refusing to commit the sati practice and emigrated to British Guiana under the Indian indenture system. After...
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    known as Satikal (Sati stone) or Sati-virakal (Sati hero stone). There are controversial views among historians regarding this practice including religious...
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  • Alter, John Holyer Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Lord William Bentinck, Bann on Sati (practice) TBA 42–43 "1857" Om Puri, Ravi Jhankal, Piyush Mishra, Mohan Gokhale...
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    Epidemiology of suicide Herd behavior Mass shooting contagion Meme Sati (practice) Halgin, Richard P.; Susan Whitbourne (January 2006). Abnormal Psychology...
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  • 'quantum satis' means that no maximum level is specified. However, coloring matters shall be used according to good manufacturing practice at a level...
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    the Subaltern Speak?", Spivak discusses the lack of an account of the Sati practice, leading her to reflect on whether the subaltern can even speak. Spivak...
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  • Satipatthana (section Sati)
    a practice of bare awareness to calm the mind. Satipaṭṭhāna is a compound term that has been parsed (and thus translated) in two ways, namely Sati-paṭṭhāna...
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    capability to enjoy the bliss of Moksha further. He opposed caste system, Sati practice, Murti worship, child marriage, etc. which are against the spirit of...
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    with his wife after the death of Emperor Meiji in 1912. Sati (practice), the now-outlawed practice of Hindu widows throwing themselves over their husbands'...
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    becoming satis. The sons of the deceased Maharaja begged Erskine not to interfere with their customs. Finding him resolved to prevent the sati practice, while...
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    education and religion. He was known for his efforts to abolish the practices of sati and child marriage. Roy wrote Gaudiya Vyakaran which was the first...
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