A practice of a widow burning to death on her husband's funeral fire. Until the British outlawed this practice, this was a practice all Hindus had in common.
the act of a Hindu widow willingly cremating herself on the funeral pyre of her dead husband
self-immolation of Hindu widows
religious practice of killing wife upon husband's death and burial.
The act of a woman placing herself on her husband's pyre, or the women who commits such an act. Made illegal by Britain in 1829.