 | Sir William Henry Sleeman - India - 1844 - 510 pages
...sun by day, and the severe cold of the night, with only a thin sheet thrown over her shoulders. On Thursday, to cut off all hope of her being moved from...pieces, by which she became dead in law, and for ever ex* eluded from caste. Should she choose to live after this, she could never return to her family.... | |
 | William Butler - India - 1872 - 568 pages
...and the cold of the night, with only a thin sheet thrown over her shoulders. On Thursday, to cut oft" all hope of her being moved from her purpose, she...bracelets in pieces, by which she became dead in law, and forever excluded from caste. Should she choose to live after this, she could never return to her family.... | |
 | William Butler - India - 1872 - 588 pages
...of the sun by day, and the cold of the night, with only a thin sheet thrown over her shoulders. On Thursday, to cut off all hope of her being moved from her purpose, she put on the dlnijja, or coarse red turban, and broke her bracelets in pieces, by which she became dead in law,... | |
 | William Butler - India - 1873 - 590 pages
...of the sun by day, and the cold of the night, with only a thin sheet thrown over her shoulders. On Thursday, to cut off all hope of her being moved from...bracelets in pieces, by which she became dead in law, and forever excluded from caste. Should she choose to live after this, she could never return to her family.... | |
 | William Joseph Wilkins - Civilization, Hindu - 1887 - 548 pages
...sun by day, and the severe cold of the night, with only a thin sheet thrown over her shoulders. On Thursday, to cut off all hope of her being moved from...after this, she could never return to her family. She had resolved to die. ' I have,' said she, ' tasted largely of the bounty of the Government, having... | |
 | William Joseph Wilkins - Civilization, Hindu - 1887 - 522 pages
...sun by day, and the severe cold of the night, with only a thin sheet thrown over her shoulders. On Thursday, to cut off all hope of her being moved from...after this, she could never return to her family. She had resolved to die. ' I have,' said she, ' tasted largely of the bounty of the Government, having... | |
 | Pramatha Nath Bose - Hindu civilization - 1894 - 354 pages
...shoulders. On Thursday, to cut off all hope of her being moved from her purpose, she put on the Dhujja, or a coarse red turban, and broke her bracelets in pieces,...after this, she could never return to her family. * * * She had resolved to die. 'I have' said she 'tasted largely of the bounty of the Government having... | |
 | William Butler - India - 1894 - 592 pages
...of the sun by day, and the cold of the night, with only a thin sheet thrown over her shoulders. On Thursday, to cut off all hope of her being moved from her purpose, she put on the cUiujja, or coarse red turban, and broke her bracelets in pieces, by which she became dead in law,... | |
 | Sir William Henry Sleeman - India - 1915 - 722 pages
...sun by day, and the severe cold of the night, with only a thin sheet thrown over her shoulders. On Thursday, to cut off all hope of her being moved from her purpose, she put on the dhaja, or coarse red turban, and broke her bracelets in pieces, by which she became dead in law, and... | |
 | Edward John Thompson - Human sacrifice - 1928 - 188 pages
...shoulders. On Thursday, to cut off all hope of her being moved from her purpose, she put on the dhaja, or coarse red turban, and broke her bracelets in pieces,...after this, she could never return to her family. ... I became satisfied that she would starve herself to death if not allowed to burn, by which the... | |
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She remained sitting upon a bare rock in the bed of the Nerbudda, refusing every kind of sustenance and exposed to the intense heat of the sun by day and the severe cold of the night, with only a thin sheet thrown over her shoulders. 
