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" No other effectual duty is known for virtuous women, at any time after the death of their lords, except casting themselves into the same fire. As long as a woman (in her successive transmigrations) shall decline burning herself, like a faithful wife,... "
Cutch: Or, Random Sketches, Taken During a Residence in One of the Northern ... - Page 66
by Marianne Young - 1839 - 283 pages
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A View of the History, Literature, and Religion of the Hindoos ..., Volume 2

William Ward - Hindu mythology - 1815 - 588 pages
...except casting themselves into the same fire.' ' As long as a woman, in her successive transmigrations, shall decline burning herself, like a faithful wife, on the same fire with her deceased lord, so long shall she not be exempted from springing again to life in the body...
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History, Literature and Religion of the Hindoos, Volume 2

William Ward - 1817 - 366 pages
...except casting themselves into the same fire. As long as a woman, in her successive transmigrations, shall decline burning herself, like a faithful wife, on the same fire with her deceased lord, so long shall she not be exempted from springing again to life in the body...
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Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque: During Four ..., Volume 1

Fanny Parkes Parlby - Hinduism - 1850 - 654 pages
...her mother, her father, and her husband." " So long as a woman, in her successive transmigrations, shall decline burning herself, like a faithful wife, on the same fire with her deceased lord, so long shall she not be exempted from springing again to life in the body...
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India, Ancient and Modern, Geographical, Historical, Political, Social, and ...

David Oliver Allen - India - 1856 - 646 pages
...successive transmigrations shall decline burning herself like a faithful wife in the same fire with her deceased lord, so long shall she not be exempted from springing again into life in the bodv of some female animal. — It is proper for a woman, after her husband's...
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INDIA ANCIENT AND MODERN

DAVID O.. ALLEN, D. D. - 1856 - 636 pages
...successive transmigrations shall decline burning herself like a faithful wife in the same fire with her deceased lord, so long shall she not be exempted from springing again into life in the body of some female animal. — It is proper for a woman, after her husband's...
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Digest of Hindu Law on Contracts and Successions

Jagannātha Tarkapañchānana - Civil law - 1865 - 658 pages
...except casting themselves into the same fire. 8. As long as a woman, in her successive transmigrations, shall decline burning herself, like a faithful wife, on the same fire with her deceased lord, so long shall sho bo not 'exempted from springing again to life in the body...
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Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, Volume 10

John McClintock - Bible - 1881 - 1138 pages
...successive migrations) shall decline burning herself, like • faithful wife, on the same fire with her deceased lord, so long shall she not be exempted from springing again to life in the body of some female animal. When their lords have departed at the fated time of...
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for ..., Volume 9

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 884 pages
...except casting themselves into the same fire. As long as a woman (in her successive transmigrations) shall decline burning herself, like a faithful wife, on the same fire with her deceased lord, so long shall she be not exempted from springing again to life in the body...
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for ..., Volume 9

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 886 pages
...except casting themselves into the same fire. As long as a woman (in her successive transmigrations) shall decline burning herself, like a faithful wife, on the same fire with her deceased lord, so long shall she be not exempted from springing again to life in the body...
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Vikram and the Vampire: Or, Tales of Hindu Devilry

Fiction - 1870 - 394 pages
...successive transmigrations, shall decline burning herself, like a faithful wife, in the same fire with her deceased lord, so long shall she not be exempted from springing again to life in the body of some female animal.' Therefore the beautiful Shobhani, virgin and wife,...
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