Editing Pyre (section)

=== Sati practice in Nepal & India ===
Some [[Hinduism|Hindu]] groups practiced [[Sati (practice)|Sati]] (also known as suttee). [[Sati (practice)|Sati]] is the act of volunteered self immolation of a widow of the deceased husband with his corpse or remains. This involves volunteering oneself (and generally being in state of samadhi<ref>{{Citation|title=(12472) Samadhi|work=Dictionary of Minor Planet Names|year=2007 |pages=783|place=Berlin, Heidelberg|publisher=Springer Berlin Heidelberg|doi=10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_8607 |isbn=978-3-540-00238-3 |doi-access=free}}</ref>) to be burnt alive on the pyre with the remains of her husband for higher state of life.<ref name="Hawley1994">{{cite book|author=John Stratton Hawley|title=Sati, the Blessing and the Curse: The Burning of Wives in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w_VbHItKQjYC|date=8 September 1994|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-536022-6}}</ref>