Category:Sati
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
historical Hindu practice | |||||
Upload media | |||||
Instance of | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Subclass of |
| ||||
Religion or worldview | |||||
| |||||
![]() |
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/System-search.svg/25px-System-search.svg.png)
English: Sati (Devanagari सती, the feminine of sat "true"; also called suttee) refers to a funeral practice within some Hindu communities in which a recently widowed woman immolates herself, typically on her husband’s funeral pyre. Without explicit ethical support, literary evidence about the practice appears from the fifth century BC, while archeological evidence appears from 5th century CE. Initially, the evidence points to an origin of the practice within the warrior aristocracy on the Indian subcontinent. With Hindu expansion outside of India, the practice has been attested to have been practiced in a number of localities in Southeast Asia, such as at Bali (Indonesia). The practice was outlawed by the British colonialial troops in 1829 within British India. In Nepal, Sati was not abolished as legalized practice until 1920. Never having been more than a fairly rare custom in India or other countries, the custom is still today occasionally adhered to, despite the 150 year old ban. The Indian Sati Prevention Act from 1987 makes it criminal to aiding, abetting, even only "glorifying" the act of sati, placing upon those who could prevent the act a legal duty to prevent it from happening.
Subcategories
This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
P
S
Media in category "Sati"
The following 80 files are in this category, out of 80 total.
-
Les veuves du Cormandel brulees vives avec les corps de leurs Maris.jpg 687 × 554; 255 KB
-
The Indian women burn themselves with their dead husbands.jpg 900 × 676; 260 KB
-
A Hindoo Widow Burning Herself with the Corpse of her Husband.jpg 750 × 465; 54 KB
-
A Hindu princess committing suttee against the wishes of the Wellcome L0022809.jpg 1,150 × 1,726; 1.17 MB
-
A sati as depicted by Giulio Ferrario.jpg 1,600 × 1,128; 514 KB
-
A steel engraving published by James S. Virtue Co.jpg 1,125 × 732; 192 KB
-
A Woman going to burn on the funeral pile of her Husband.jpg 834 × 1,060; 138 KB
-
An Hindoo Woman throwing herself on the funeral pyre of her Husband.jpg 1,100 × 694; 582 KB
-
Burning of a Widow.jpg 1,084 × 702; 349 KB
-
Chittorgarh-Samiddheshwara Temple-04-20131014.jpg 5,472 × 3,648; 10.07 MB
-
Balinese rite of Suttee in Houtman 1597 Verhael vande Reyse ... Naer Oost Indien.jpg 1,474 × 1,023; 375 KB
-
Een vrouw springt op de brandstapel van haar overleden echtgenoot, 1597, RP-P-OB-80.275.jpg 6,134 × 4,660; 5.94 MB
-
Idolâtres de l'Inde (Description de l'Univers, II, pl. 49).jpg 516 × 744; 127 KB
-
View of a sati, 1683.jpg 725 × 1,078; 173 KB
-
View of a sati, 1685.jpg 642 × 900; 464 KB
-
Femmes Benjanoises brulees aupres les corps de leurs Maris.jpg 900 × 701; 264 KB
-
1836-7-A Suttee.png 964 × 628; 796 KB
-
Land of the Veda - Preparing for the Immolation of a Hindoo Widow.jpg 2,244 × 1,462; 1.98 MB
-
Preparation for a Suttee, aquatint by Robert Melville Grindlay, 1816.jpg 712 × 541; 158 KB
-
Sati scene.jpg 2,256 × 1,712; 1.58 MB
-
Hindu Suttee.jpg 1,048 × 692; 76 KB
-
Les deux veuves d'un chef indien - Louis Jean François Lagrenée - MBA Dijon CA 345.jpg 1,617 × 1,170; 726 KB
-
Lion and dragon in northern China (1910) (14597451798).jpg 1,488 × 2,100; 453 KB
-
Lion and dragon in northern China (1910) (14783751522).jpg 1,584 × 2,136; 473 KB
-
Mangala Gauri Temple at Gaya, Bihar.jpg 1,024 × 679; 163 KB
-
Suttee. Engraving by Lester, 1820. Wellcome V0041332.jpg 3,187 × 2,190; 3.11 MB
-
Mural of Shiva carrying the body of Sati.jpg 613 × 996; 96 KB
-
LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-sati.wav 1.0 s; 91 KB
-
Sati ceremony.jpg 1,787 × 1,288; 664 KB
-
Sati Daha.jpg 280 × 180; 27 KB
-
Sati in Madras Presidency.jpg 1,828 × 1,452; 1.55 MB
-
Sati stambh.JPG 448 × 336; 37 KB
-
Sati stone papahareshwara temple basar.jpg 3,000 × 4,000; 7.54 MB
-
Sati Temple.jpg 3,456 × 5,184; 7.87 MB
-
Sati, Hampi.jpg 3,024 × 4,032; 3.62 MB
-
Suttee by James Atkinson.jpg 391 × 498; 64 KB
-
"Suttee" pillar where Hindu widows were burned, Benares, India (14671460675).jpg 2,000 × 1,005; 2.11 MB
-
Suttee, with Lord Hastings shown as accepting bribes to allo Wellcome V0041331.jpg 3,483 × 2,017; 2.84 MB
-
Suttee. Gouache painting by a painter of Thanjavur (Tanjore) Wellcome V0041336.jpg 2,279 × 3,070; 2.92 MB
-
Suttee. Wellcome V0041335.jpg 3,307 × 2,125; 3.02 MB
-
The favourite wife shivaji preparing for sutee.jpg 1,867 × 1,253; 459 KB
-
The funeral pile of a husband in Hindoostan.jpg 1,072 × 824; 360 KB
-
The Sati of Ramabai.jpg 2,100 × 1,508; 1.18 MB
-
Theodor de Bry Witwenverbrennung auf Java.jpg 674 × 778; 303 KB
-
TR1 Image 20.png 728 × 524; 790 KB
-
A view by Thomas Salmon, Venice, 1740-1756.jpg 1,600 × 1,351; 668 KB
-
A Gentoo Woman burning herself on the Funeral Pile of her Husband.jpg 572 × 900; 120 KB
-
Moore1780.jpg 606 × 1,047; 120 KB
-
Suttee. Engraving by Walker after Wale. Wellcome V0041330.jpg 2,072 × 3,383; 3.72 MB
-
Widow Buring in India (August 1852, p.84, IX) - Copy.jpg 1,517 × 1,030; 564 KB
-
Witwenverbrennung (Bernard Picart).jpg 2,126 × 1,583; 3.95 MB
Categories:
- Hindu rituals
- Widows in India
- Death customs of India
- Violence against women in India
- Hinduism and women
- Execution by burning
- Death of women
- Criticism of Hinduism
- Violence against women in Asia
- Fire in religion
- Suicide methods
- Superstitions of India
- Widowhood in India
- Hindu rituals related to death
- Suicide in India
- Femicide
- Women and death
- Indo-European culture
- Human sacrifice
- Traditions involving fire
- Suicide in Nepal
- Violence against women in Nepal
- Self-immolation