Musalmāns, saying, “It was better that she should escape, but it was a pity we should have lost the _tamāshā_ (amusement) of seeing her burnt to death.” The woman said, “I have transmigrated six times, and have been burned six times with six different husbands; if I do not burn the seventh time, it will prove unlucky for me!” “What good will burning do you?” asked a bystander: she replied, “The women of my husband’s family have all been _satīs_: why should I bring disgrace upon them? I shall go to heaven, and afterwards re-appear on earth, and be married to a very rich man.” The woman was about 25 years of age, and possessed some property: had she performed _satī_, her relatives would have raised a little cenotaph, or a mound of earth, by the side of the river; and every Hindū who passed the place returning from bathing, would have made _salām_ to it—a high honour to the family. The _shastrs_ say, “There is no greater virtue than a chaste woman burning herself with her husband.” Mothers collect the cowries, strewn by a satī as she walks round the pile, ere she fires it, and hang them round the necks of their sick children, as a cure for disease. The woman became an outcast: her own and her husband’s family would lose caste, if they were to speak to her; no Hindū will eat with her, enter her house, or give her assistance; and when she appears, they will point at her, and give her abuse. Many years after this event took place, the woman regained caste by giving large feasts and donations to the Brahmans. In the Museum are five _kalsas_, or crowns of unglazed pottery, some of which formerly decorated the _satī_ mounds in Alopee Bagh, near Allahabad, and the rest were brought from Ghazipūr. There are also two black stones, apparently very ancient, on which figures are carved, brought from the _satī_ mound of the widow of a Brahman, at Barrah. About two years after this event at Allahabad, the practice of _satī_ was abolished, by order of government. The fine building here represented is a _dhrum-sala_, or place to distribute alms, at Benī Māhadēo Ghāt; it is dedicated to a form of Māhadēo, which stands in the _shiwālā_, or little temple above. Under the arches in the lower part, by the side of the Ganges, is an enormous figure of Ganesh; the worshippers pour oil and Ganges water over the image, with rice and flowers, and hang chaplets of flowers around its neck: the idol is generally dripping with oil. The red flag, at the end of a long bamboo displayed from the _pīpul_ tree, denotes the residence of a _Fakīr_. The temple is very picturesque, and the foliage adds to the beauty of the scene. SULTAN KHUSRŪ’S MAUSOLEUM.