Anju
I read this online: Even social reformer like Raja Rammohan Roy used to prove that mainstream Vedic text did not mandate or support the practice of Sati (widow burning) From the Rigveda's funeral hymn 10.18.7 — Calls on women who are not widows (whose husbands are living) to come forward, anointed with ghee, as part of the funeral ritual — essentially separating the auspicious, married women from the widow's fate. 10.18.8 — Addressed directl…
