Keyword: Self-Sacrifice
(15th)
from: Boccaccio, De casibus virorum illustrium, transl. by Boccace, De casibus, trad. Laurent de Premierfait
Bibliothèque nationale de France, ms Français 226, fol. 20v
Idolatres (1685)
from: Allain Manesson Mallet, Description de l'Univers, , contenant les differents systêmes du monde, les cartes générals et particulières de la géographie ancienne et modern. Vol.: De l'Asie.
Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial India
Delhi: Kali for Women, 1989.
Samson's Death (1549)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
(1549)
from: The Story of Samson, Hand-colored engravings (Netherlands)
The Metropolitan Art Museum, New York
Death and Demonization of a Bodhisattva: Guanyin's Reformulation within Chinese Religion
in: Journal of the American Academy of Religion, v. 84 (2016), issue 3: pp.690-726.
Sati Memorials and Cenotaphs of Madhya Pradesh — A Survey
in: Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, v. 62 (2001), issue --: pp.1013–19.
Satī, from a Sūz u Gudāz manuscript. The union of the couple on the pyre (1657)
from: Sūz u Gudāz ms, Iran, Walters Manuscript W. 649, fol. 19b (Burning and Melting)
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
the young Hindu woman accompanies her bridegroom's coffin to the funeral pyre and decides to commit sati (1657)
from: Walters manuscript W.649 (Burning and Melting)
The Walters Art Museum
Sati: A Nineteenth Century Tale of Women, Violence and Protest
in: At the Edge of Psychology: Essays in Politics and Culture, pp.
Delhi: -, 1980.
Il Sansone: libri tre
Venice: Turrini, 1638.
An Eighteenth-Century Account of Sati: John Zephaniah Holwell's ‘Religious Tenets of the Gentoos’ and ‘Voluntary Sacrifice’ (1767)
in: South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, v. 40 (2017), issue 1: pp.24-39.
Iud., cap. XVI, v. 29.30, Ultima Roboris Samsonici (1732 - 1737)
from: J. J. Scheuchzer, Physique sacrée, ou Histoire naturelle de la Bible, Amsterdam, Pierre Schenk - Pierre Mortier, 1732 - 1737, tome quatrieme, tab. CCCLXXXVII
Manner in which the Women in India Burn (1728)
from: Picart, B. Ceremonies et Coutumes Religieuses des Peuples Idolatres, tome II, Amsterdam, 1728
London, Wellcome Collection
Samson's Revenge [1730 - 1740]
Österreichisches Barockmuseum, Wien
Satī, from a Sūz u Gudāz manuscript. The pyre; the bride preparing to sacrifice herself (1650)
from: Nawʻi Khabushani, Muhammad Riz̤a, Sūz u Gudāz, fol. 31v
Chester Betty Library, Dublin, Ireland MS Pers 268, fol. 31b
The Subject of Satı: Pain and Death in the Contemporary Discourse on Satı’
in Yale Journal of Criticism, Vol. 3, no. 2 (1990), pp. 1–23.: , 1990.