Sona Parivraj

The Vedas say that a widow should lie down next to the husband’s pyre and then raise and walk away.. the symbolism of this is it is a rebirth as a different individual and she leaves behind her role as a wife. The key evidence is the Eran inscription* of 510 CE, from the late Gupta/early post-Gupta period, which records the wife of a warrior named Goparāja ascending the funeral pyre after his death in battle. It is the only one. Earlier Sanskrit literature sometimes praises the devoted widow, but widow self immolation was not a Vedic requirement. In fact, older Vedic funeral ritual seems to have expected the widow to symbolically lie beside the dead husband and then rise and return to life, not die with him. *[..] Goparāja appears in the Eran pillar inscription, dated Gupta Era 191 = c. 510 CE, at Eran in Madhya Pradesh. He was a noble/chieftain and friend or associate of Bhanugupta, probably involved in a major battle during the unstable late Gupta period. The inscription says Goparāja died in battle and that his beloved wife “entered into the mass of fire,” which is why it is treated as one of the earliest dated epigraphic records of sati. But there are caveats. The inscription is damaged, and the word sati itself is not used; the modern classification comes from the description of the wife entering the fire and from Fleet’s reconstruction/translation. Could it be from another culture? Possibly partly, but not cleanly. Central India and northwestern India had long contact with Śakas/Indo-Scythians, Kuṣāṇas, Hūṇas, and other warrior-frontier groups. Eran itself had earlier Śaka links, and by c. 510 CE the Gupta world was under pressure from Hūṇa-related powers. Sati may have grown at the intersection of warrior death, honor culture, widow chastity ideals, property/inheritance anxieties, and frontier militarization. In Gupta-era evidence, it appears first as an elite kṣatriya/warrior memorial act, not a general Hindu rule. Older Vedic ritual, by contrast, seems to point the widow back to life, not into death. So Gupta sati looks less like ancient Vedic obligation and more like a later heroic-warrior custom that became Sanskritized and moralized over time. [..]

One of the most consistent & egregious perversions of Indology is the idea that Brahmins & Sramans were in a multi-millennia civil war. Sramanic critique of contemporary Brahmins was either elite theological debate or criticisms for not upholding the way of the Vedas which had been deemed to have been twisted by contemporaries. This is without even going into the massive input & influence of Brahmins within Sramanic sects as well as Sramanic influences on Hindu sects.

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee wrote: “I am aware that another, and a very reasonable, account of the origin of the festival of Rath [at Jagannath Temple] has been given by General Cunningham in his work on the Bhilsa Topes. He there traces it to a similar festival of the Buddhists,..

I have got a new name for journalism extraordinarily kind and slavish to those in power: Sati Savitri Media

This Brahmanical joker is taking credit for everything. These parasites fought for nothing, and I don't know how he has the audacity to say that 'we gave rights to women.' Who are you? Gave? 😳

Declaring Bhojshala to be temple, MP High Court orders stopping of Muslim Namaz there. To protect the rights of Muslims, the Court allows them to seek an alternate land for construction of mosque.