Ashes of Immortality
Weinberger-Thomas, Catherine / Mehlman, Jeffrey / White, David Gordon![Ashes of Immortality](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/165/1650326/CHSBZCOP031650326.jpg)
At last, she arrives at the fatal end of the plank . . . and, with her hands crossed over her chest, falls straight downward, suspended for a moment in the air before being devoured by the burning pit that awaits her. . . ." This grisly 1829 account by Pierre Dubois demonstrates the usual European response to the Hindu custom of satis sacrificing themselves on the funeral pyres of their husbands--horror and revulsion. Yet to those of the Hindu...