Documenta Nepalica
Documents on the History of Religion and Law of Pre-modern Nepal
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n.
1.) widow, concubine or female slave who follows her deceased husband or master into death by immolating herself either on her husband's or master's fire, or on a separate funeral pyre. 2.) the ritual of self-immolation
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