She told him to excavate a yantra called Sriyantra from beneath the entrance to an abandoned Siva temple on the Sati Chaura ghat. |
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In the old orthodox society the Sati system of widows mounting the funeral pyre of their husbands was an atrocious practice. |
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The tradition of Sati does not permit a widow to eat well, wear good clothes or sleep on a bed. |
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She also studied forms of Indian ballet dances such as: Bharata Natyam, Kuchipudi and Mukhabhinaya with the famous dancer Margi Sati. |
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Child abuse and female foeticide are still happening in big numbers, but Sati is only performed in rural areas and that also in some very backward places. |
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