 | Great Britain - 1878 - 890 pages
...she has served her husband and his guests with food. She may, however, take physic before they eat. It is proper for a woman after her husband's death to burn herself in the fire with his corpse." Warren Hastings wrote a letter to the Court of Directors in 1775, commending this compilation to their... | |
 | Sir Monier Monier-Williams - India - 1879 - 388 pages
...she has served her husband and his guests with food. She may, however, take physic before they eat. It is proper for a woman after her husband's death to burn herself in the fire with his corpse.' Warren Hastings wrote a letter to the Court of Directors in 1775, commending this compilation to their... | |
 | William Joseph Wilkins - Civilization, Hindu - 1887 - 522 pages
...shall never exercise herself in any such agreeable employment during the absence of her husband." " It is proper for a woman, after her husband's death,...herself shall remain in Paradise with her husband 85,000,000 years by destiny." The text does not say how it will be if the husband is unworthy of attaining... | |
 | William Joseph Wilkins - Civilization, Hindu - 1887 - 548 pages
...laws drawn up towards the close of the last century, for the guidance of the judges, it is said: " It is proper for a woman, after her husband's death,...in the fire with his corpse. Every woman who thus barns herself shall remain in Paradise with her husband 850,000,000 of years by destiny." The first... | |
 | George Thomas Bettany - Biogeography - 1888 - 970 pages
...she has served her husband and his guests with food. She may, however, take physic before they eat. It is proper for a woman, after her husband's death, to burn herself in the fire with his corpse." So deep was the feeling that the latter practice Abolition of res*;e^ on inspired authority, that the... | |
 | George Thomas Bettany - Asia - 1889 - 394 pages
...she has served her husband and his guests with food. She may, however, take physic before they eat. It is proper for a woman, after her husband's death, to burn herself in the fire with his corpse." So deep was the feeling that the latter practice rested on inspired tne British. i n B r i t i s h... | |
 | Sir Monier Monier-Williams - India - 1891 - 382 pages
...she has served her husband and his guests with food. She may, however, take physio before they eat. It is proper for a woman after her husband's death to burn herself in the fire with his corpse.' Warren Hastings wrote a letter to the Court of Directors in 1775, commending this compilation to their... | |
 | 1870 - 732 pages
...mirror; she shall never exercise herself in any agreeable employment during the absence of her husband. It is proper for a woman after her husband's death to burn herself with his corpse, &c." (page 253). "So much for the ancient rights of women." GRANDMAMMA'S LOVER. "... | |
 | Mrs. Marcus B. Fuller - Social Science - 1900 - 338 pages
...greatest heroism and with the lofty idea of all it would mean. Had not their later law-books promised that "every woman who thus burns herself shall remain in Paradise with her husband 350,000,000 years by destiny, also that she would secure salvation to herself, her husband and to their... | |
 | Robert Elliott Speer - Missions - 1902 - 568 pages
...the code of Hindu laws drawn up in the eighteenth century for the guidance of judges, it is said : " It is proper for a woman after her husband's death to burn herself with his corpse. Every woman who thus burns herself shall remain in Paradise with her husband 350,000,000... | |
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It is proper for a woman, after her husband's death to burn herself in the fire with his corpse... 
