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    Sati was a historical practice in Hindu communities in which a widow sacrifices herself by sitting atop her deceased husband's funeral pyre. Although it...
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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 widow of the...
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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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    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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  • Sati (Pali: सति; Sanskrit: स्मृति smṛti), literally "memory" or "retention", commonly translated as mindfulness, "to remember to observe," is an essential...
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    the then Governor-General Lord William Bentinck. The act made the practice of sati or suttee—or the immolation of a Hindu widow on the funeral pyre of...
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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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  • 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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    Shakti pitha (redirect from Sati Pith)
    is based on the story of the death of the goddess Sati. Out of grief and sorrow, Shiva carried Sati's body, reminiscing about their moments as a couple...
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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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  • Jhola (section Sati custom)
    custom of Sati was a voluntary practice in which a woman voluntarily decides to end her life with her husband after his death. But later the practice was abused...
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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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  • were at the heart of Brahminical philosophy at the time. Sati was a historical Hindu practice, in which a widow sacrifices herself by sitting atop her...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • against the Sati practices which was widely in practise at his time. His campaign later inspired Chandra Shumsher to abolish the practice in 1977 BS (1920-1921)...
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  • Alter, John Holyer Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Lord William Bentinck, Bann on Sati (practice) 42, 43 "1857" Part 1 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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    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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    quotes verses from the Vedas. Social Causes: He opposed caste system, Sati practice, Murti worship, child marriage, etc. which are against the spirit of...
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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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    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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  • '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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  • specific practices, but qualities of the mind that a practitioner fulfills as they develop the factors of the Noble Eightfold Path, including sati ("mindfulness")...
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