DEATH ON FUNERAL PYRE
SUTTEE CASE NEAR AGRA LONDON, January 14. The Delhi correspondent of "The Times" states that the blowing of sacred conch shells and the clanging of cymbals drowned the screams of a woman who committed suttee (self-immolation) on her husband's funeral pyre near a village temple in the neighbourhood of Agra. ; The "woman's Brahmin husband died after a long ilkiess, and when his body was placed on the pyre and wood heaped over it the widow appeared, clad in bridal clothes. She warned the onlookers that they would suffer the wrath of the gods if they interfered. She entered the temple, worshipped, % and then she herself lit and ascended the pyre. Large crowds of onlookers and priests, overawed, watched the sacrifice. The woman had been burned to death when the police arrived in an attempt to prevent, the suttee. . The British Government prohibited this practice a century ago, and it is now very rarely practised.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21992, 16 January 1937, Page 13
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