Hinduism Flashcards
Sati or suttee
Obsolete funeral custom where a widow implants herself on her husbands pyre or takes her own life in another fashion shortly after her husbands death
Jumps or sits on the fire burning her husband
Cremated
Hero and sati memorial stelae gujuarat
Women had the belief that because of these women that the religion still exists today
When they die you get cremated and in Olden times if your husband died you die with him and burn to death
Jauhar memorial
Each individual hand represents one sati
Mass self-immolation by women in parts of the Indian subcontinent, to avoid capture, enslavement, rape by shy foreign invaders, when facing certain defeat during war
Modern print of Sati-Maa
Over 16,000 sati memorials
9233 hero stones in these states
Modern memorial gallery at jarpar lurch district
Women had to assist the husband in realizing all of the goals in ideal Hindu life
Wife as a supporter
When the husband has been killed, the women should obtain from society in any way possible, which for some is sati
Most people are being buried and there is no real evidence of cremation
Gradual move towards creation
Purify the dead, then fire is introduced in the ritual
Pati
Husband
Vrata
Vowed to
Caste
Reservation for lower cast people to be incorporated in the main stream
Reverse discrimination
Caste factor still has not dissolved
Vedic
Law books (shastras) Sati is not prescribed in the shastras
We do have the expectations of widows after they die
Laws expect the widow to outlive her husband
Cremation comes later
Manu is the exemplar of law of ethics
Upanishadic
Epics—- Bhagavad Gita
Bhagavad Gita is one chapter in the Mahabharata
Now to be a warrior and how to kill (dharmic duty)
Bhakti
Devotion
Moves from sacrifice to philosophers wit the upanishadic era
Two main groups in Hinduism
Those who follow siva
Those who follow vishnu
Brahma is the third one that makes up the Hindu trinity
Puranas
Ancient/ old
