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Evil Sati Practice.

Sati pratha is not in Hindu Culture Misinterpretation of Vedas and Sanatana Dharma
Led to practice of Sati in mass-scale
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Origin of Sati Pratha is being attributed to Vedas. AThis is a big misconception. In reality Sati prath is nowhere mentioned in Hindu scriptures.

Atharvaveda 18.3.1 is mostly quoted as vedic mantra which supports Sati Pratha.
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The Mantra is interpreted as
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Choosing her husband's world, O man, this woman lays herself down beside they lifeless body. Preserving faithfully down besides thy lifeless body. Preserving faithfully the ancient custom. Bestow upon here both wealth and offspring.
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In this Mantra the word 'Chossing her husband's world' is often interpreted as wife is advised to join the Dead Husband in afterlife in next world. So she must burn herself in funeral pyre of her husband.
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The correct interpretation of this Mantra is
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This women have chosen her Husband's world earlier. Today she is sitting besides your dead body. Now bestow upon here both wealth and Offspring rest of her life continue her afterlife in the world.
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Even Vedas speaks of Widow Remarriage for a Widow
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A famous passage from Rigveda 10.18.8 addresses the widow and says: - Rise up, abandon this dead man, and re-join the living.
Its explicitly states that widow should retutn to her normal life

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