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| − | Sati (also called suttee) is custom of Hinduism by which a widow kills herself at her husband’s funeral pyre. The practice probably originated sometime around A.D. 400 | + | Sati (also called suttee) is custom of Hinduism by which a widow kills herself at her husband’s funeral pyre. The practice probably originated sometime around A.D. 400. |
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Sati (also called suttee) is custom of Hinduism by which a widow kills herself at her husband’s funeral pyre. The practice probably originated sometime around A.D. 400.