Grand moving diorama of Hindostan, from Fort William, Bengal, to Gangoutri in the Himalaya . puja, shave, give money to the FaHrs, and bathe at the sacred committed at the Bent is meritorious in persons of a certain caste, but a sin for aBrahman ! The ancient city of Prag, acquired the name of Allahabad from the Musalmanconquerors of India. 58 ALLAHABAD — THE SATI. The buildings occupied by Shah Allum when he resided in the fort, still retain traces oftheir former grandeur, and some of the apartments command a fine view of the Jumna thatflows beneath. An enormous pillar, forme
Grand moving diorama of Hindostan, from Fort William, Bengal, to Gangoutri in the Himalaya . puja, shave, give money to the FaHrs, and bathe at the sacred committed at the Bent is meritorious in persons of a certain caste, but a sin for aBrahman ! The ancient city of Prag, acquired the name of Allahabad from the Musalmanconquerors of India. 58 ALLAHABAD — THE SATI. The buildings occupied by Shah Allum when he resided in the fort, still retain traces oftheir former grandeur, and some of the apartments command a fine view of the Jumna thatflows beneath. An enormous pillar, formerly prostrate near the gateway in the fort, hasbeen set up on a pedestal, under the superintendence of the late Colonel Edward Smith. Thenatives call it Shim Singh he lat, that is, Bhlm Singhs walking-stick: some of the inscrip-tions on the lat are in unknown characters—those of the mighty dead, who have disappearedfrom the earth, leaving records imperishable, but incomprehensible. The steam vessels and tugs which navigate the Ganges from Calcutta terminate theirvoyage at THE SATI. The scene now before you represents a Sati, the burning of a Hindu widow with the corpseof her husband. The event here represented took place on the 7th November, 1828, near THE SATI. 59 Raj ghat, under the Mahratta bund (an embankment raised to prevent the encroachment ofthe Granges). The woman was the wife of a rich buniya (a corn-chandler), and she deter-mined to burn on his funeral-pile. The magistrate sent for her, used every argument todissuade her, and offered her money. Her only answer was, dashing her head against thefloor, and saying, If you will not let me burn with my husband, I will hang myself in yourcourt of justice. If a widow touch either food or water from the time her husband expiresuntil she ascend the pile, she cannot, by Hindu law, be burned with the body; therefore themagistrate kept the corpse forty-eight hours, in the hope that hunger would compel the womanto
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