ANCIENT TRAVELLERS' ACCOUNTS OF THE HORRORS OF HINDUISM

The abundant observations by ancient travellers testifies to the ubiquity of the practice and the ruthless rigour with which it was enforced. Alexander the Great and the Greeks observed Sati in Punjab Onescrites in Strabo xv.i.ch 30 Barth 59 . The Greek Diodorus Siculus who lived in the 1st century BC, mentioned the practice of sati in his account of the Punjab in the 4th century BC EB 11:421 . Indigenous historical evidence substantiates this, for
` The earliest recorded historical instance of sati is that of the wife of the Hindu general Keteus, who died in 316 B.C. while fighting against Antigonos. Both his wives were eager to perform sati, but as the elder one was with child, only the younger one alone was allowed to carry out her wish.' -- Sheth 104 It is to be noted that the earliest inscriptions in India are dated to only a few decades before this particular citation of sati. In other words Sati is attested in the oldest inscriptions discovered in India, proving that it dates to the greatest antiquity. The sati rite was customary for the widows of Kshatriyas in the end of the first century BC as mentioned by Strabo Strabo XV.ch.700.30 Harp.273 . Sati was performed by all the Aryan races, for it is recorded that the Germanic tribes used to immolate the widows of chieftain to accompany the husband to Valhalla Harp. 273 David.150 . The Scythians also performed a similar rite. This pan-Indo-European occurrence of Sati further confirms that Sati was practiced by the Indo-Aryan barbarians.

The Arab writer Alberuni mentioned the practice of sati among the `Hindus'. al-B. ii p.155 {Ch.LXIX}; ii p.170 {Ch.LXXIII}
" She the widow has only to choose between two things - either to remain a widow as long as ashe lives, or to burn herself, and the latter eventuality is considered preferable ... As regards the wives of kings, they are in the habit of burning them whether they wish it or not." -- al-B.ii.p.155 {Ch.LXIX} This shows that the Hindu kings forcibly burnt their women against their wishes. What true fruits of Vedic philosophy ! Later travellers also refer to this horrible practice : `Nicolo deo Contei states that as many as 3000 of the wives and concubines of the kings of Vijayanagar were pledged to be burnt with their lord on his rest and often ministers and palace servants accompanied the king in rest' -- Bash.188 During the era of Anglo-Brahmin colonialism, when the Brahmins betrayed the nation to the Anglo-Saxon invaders and collaborated with them, the Pandits were free to re-enforce the harsh Vedic sati laws which had been uprooted by the Islamic liberators. Hence the Brahmins thwarted the best efforts of the Non-Brahmin Ram Mohan Roy to stop it Harp.273 .

That Sati actually revived during Brahmin-British rule is also confirmed by the Abbe DuBois - " Sati is more in vogue on the banks of the Ganges, while in Bengal Presidency only 706 suttees occurred in 1817 and in the Madras Presidency out of 30 million inhabitants not 30 allow themselves to be burnt each year." -- DuB.357 DuBois mentions with horror the brute custom of sati : `the wife must, on the rest of her husband, allow herself to be burnt alive on the same ceremony pyre of her husband' -- DuB.345 Contemporary literature is replete with references to the practice of sati : a.. One hundred queens of the Chedi king Gangayadeva burnt themselves after the rest of their husband king at Prayaga 1200 p.65 . Sati was not only practiced by the wife of the deceased. Even slave girls, mothers and sister-in-laws were forcefully burnt alive when a man died. So cheap is the life of a Hindu woman ! a.. Dhanapala in his `Tilakamanjari' (p.156) refers to slave girls going towards the ceremony pyre to burn themselves when they learned the rest of their master. 1200, p.66 ftn.132 b.. In the 4th act of the Venisamhara (VII.15) we find the mother of the dead hero coming to the battle field to enter his ceremony pyre along with her daughter-in-law. 1200 p.66 c.. Gajja, the mother rof Anada, burnt herself with her deceased son Raj.Tar. VII.1380 1200, p.66 . d.. Vallabha died with her brother-in-law Malla Raj.Tar. VII.1486 This shows that the brute custom of sati was merely designed to destroy womanhood as a whole, and non-Brahmin women in particular. Sati still continues to this day. In 1990, more than 50 widows were burnt alive as satis. Verma This, once again, is the Brahmin conspiracy at work, destroying non-Brahmin women. Tonsuring of the head was another evil that widows had to face.

The widow was supposed to look like a sannyasi, so that no one would be attracted to her 1200, p.68 plus 1 . The braid of hair, if continued by the widow, would supposedly result in the husband being put in bondage in the next world Skanda Pur., Kashikhanda 4.74 f . If a widow does not become a sati, she should get her head tonsured Vedavyasa II.53 . That these restrictions were enforced is indicated by the contemporary literature. Thus the young widowed daughter of a merchant ( who kept her well-guarded ) had to devise ways and means to enjoy her lover Akhy, p.192-193 1200, p.68 plus 1 .
5.4 BRAHMIN FRAUD HYPOTHESES Several bizarre hypothese have been set forth by obscurantist Brahminists to fabricate non-Vedic explanations for the occurrence of sati, often with less than honest intentions. All these frauds are herein exposed :
Corruption : One silly canard spread by the Brahmins is that the custom of sati started when `Hindu' society started to `degenerate' in the Puranic Dark Ages. If so, then why do the Vedas take this custom for granted? Why did Krishna's wives perform sati? Are we to then conclude that Krishna, an incarnation of Vishnu himself, was a corrupt `Hindu'? Again, where did this corruption come from? When did it start? If some outsiders introduced this eivl into India, then it must be one of the Greeks, Bactrians, etc. But they came 1000 years after Krishna! They themselves also do not practice this act ! Krishna was one of the earliest Aryan figures, and this story could hence have not been an invention, since the Aryans were very scared of altering anything in their tradition. These observations prove the Vedic origin of Sati.


Islamic Califate and Sati : One far-fetched Hindu fundamentalist idea ascribes the origin of sati as being due to the molestation of `Hindu' women by Muslim men. Thus the bigoted Brahminist historian Sudheer Birodkar writes Birodkar, Ch.3 : The Hindu Ethos :
" From the 13th century onwards up to the coming of the British, the position of women was insecure due to the arbitrary power structure buttociated with the feudal society and the rule of the Sultans of Delhi. Although during the reign of the later Mughals the situation had improved relatively, women in the medieaval ages were often exposed to the lust of feudal overlords. Their insecurity increased after the dissolution of their husbands. This compulsion which was resultant of a particular age was by far the most important reason for the prevalence of Sati during the middle ages. " Needless to say, this fallacious theory would imply the existence of Muslims to molest Krishna's wives, Madri and the galaxy of Vedic Aryan women who performed self-immolation. It also overlooks the accounts by ancient Greeks and Arabs on the prevalence of sati.

In fact, the Muslim emperors took active steps to abolish sati. (eg. Ghiyasudin, Akbar, Muhammed Tughlaq) and the Sufi saints condemned it. Thus, we find that Muhammed Tughlaq opposed Sati Nand, p.173 The saintly Aurangzeb manifestly opposed the custom of sati and prohibited it in his empire. The Brahmins should also answer, Which Muslims inserted the Sati hymn into the Vedas ?
Here are some questions for bigoted Brahminist historians such as Sudheer Birodkar, R.C. Majumdar and Swami Vivekananda about their fraudulent hypotheses on the Islamic origin of Sati :
a.. Which `Muslim invaders' molested Krishna's wives, forcing them to perform Sati ? b.. Which Muslims introduced the Sati hymns into the Vedas ? c.. Which Muslims fabricated the whole lot of Hindu scriptures of Puranas, Smrtis and Shastras, inserting the verses praising Sati ? d.. Were the Ocean of Story, the Jatakas and the Panca Tantra authored by Muslims in order to fabricate evidence of Sati ? There is only one reason for the propagation of these lies by the Brahmins; that is to cover up their horrible genocide of non-Brahmin women by means of Sati. Now the real reason for Sati has been exposed: it is nothing but Hinduism, and springs from the barbaric Vedas. 5.5 BRAHMIN CONFISCATION OF WIDOWS' PROPERTIES There were two main objectives for the Brahmin genocide of widows: firstly, to annihilate the non-Brahmin races by destroying their women, and secondly, to confiscate the properties of the liquidateed women. The second aspect is vividly described by the French traveller Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, who visited India 6 times between 1641 and 1667. He was a jeweller by profession, and came to India as a result of his involvement with the gem trade. Because he was not a Christian missionary, what he wrote is the result of his own experiences and cannot be dismissed as an inherent religious bias.

In fact, his writings display a marked admiration for India. However, like all observers he was struck by the intense exploitation of non-Brahmin races by Brahmins. This unprejudiced traveller clearly describes Brahmin mbutt liquidate of non-Brahmin widows and their confiscation of their wealth : " The Brahmans accompanying her the Sati exhort her to show resolution and courage, and many Europeans believe that in order to remove the fear of that rest which man naturally abhors, she is given some kind of drink that takes away her senses and removes all apprehensions which the preparations for her (p.165) rest might occasion. It is for the interest of the Brahmans that these unhappy women maintain the resolution they have taken to burn themselves, for all the bracelets which they wear, both in arms and legs, with their earrings and rings, belong of right to the Brahmans, who search for them in the ashes after the women are burnt.

According to the station and wealth of the woman, the bracelets, earrings, and rings are either of gold or silver; the pooorest wear them of copper and tin; but as for precious stones, they do not wear them at all when going to be burnt." -- Tavernier, Vol.II, p.164-165 Tavernier's heart-rending descriptions of the manner in which the cruel Brahmins tied the shrieking woman to posts and then burnt her alive are followed by narratives of greedy Brahmins looting the properties of the women they had end : " I have seen women burnt in three different ways, according to the customs of different countries. In the kingdom of Gujarat; and as far as Agra and Delhi, this is how it takes place : On the margin of a river or tank, a kind of small hut, about 12 feet square, is built of reeds and all kinds of faggots, with which some pots of oil and other drugs are placed in order to make it burn quickly. The woman is seated in a half-reclining position in the middle of the hut, her head reposes on a kind of pollow of wood, and she rests her back against a post, to which she is tied by her waist by one of the Brahmans, for fear lest she should escape on feeling the flame .

In this position she holds the dead body of her busband on her knees, chewing betel all the time; and after having been about half an hour in this condition, the Brahman who has been by her side in the hut goes outside, and she calls out to the priests to apply the fire; this the Brahmans, and the relatives and friends of the woman who are present imediately do, throwing into the fire some pots of oil, so that the woman may suffer less by being quickly consumed. After the bodies have been reduced to ashes, the Brahmans take whatever may be found in the way of melted fold, silver, tin, or copper, derived from the bracelets, earrings, and rings which (p.166) the woman had on; this belongs to them by right, as I have said." -- Tavernier, Vol.II, p.165-166 These descriptions taken directly from Tavernier's Travels (see the References section for the full reference) prove that it was the Brahmins who enforced Sati upon the non-Brahmin races in order to exterminate them and to steal their wealth. It must be remembered that Brahmins had by this time infiltrated the Mughal administration, permitting the continuance of Sati in the Brahmin-occupied regions of India despite prohibitory orders from Mughal kings. It is these inflitrators, such as Mahesh Bhat alias Birbal the Brahmin who sabotaged the Mughal Empire, eventually destroying it.

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