Sati: Where It Came From, Which Texts Contain It, and Who Ended It
The husband's pyre burned, and the widow was placed in the same fire. Yet the oldest scripture said: Rise, return to the world of the living. So where did "burn" come from, a thousand years later? Sanskrit texts, historical records, Bengal's eight thousand cases, and court verdicts up to October 2024 — all in this article, exactly as the sources state them.
By John Shaqi · July 19, 2026 · 16 min read
A Question Around a Fire
For centuries, one scene repeated itself on Indian soil: the husband's funeral pyre burned, and the widow was placed in the same fire. Sometimes by her own will, sometimes amid the noise of drums, sometimes with ropes.
The custom was called Sati.
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