Some people are giving fake translations from Atharva veda by saying that, 3. A virtuous woman is one who dies on the funeral pyre of her dead husband and avails the privilege of serving her husband in the other world. (Atharva Veda 18-3-1)
I went through the Atharva veda. Here are the sanskrit shloka with their meanings.
Atharva veda - 18-3-1
Eeyam Naari Patilokam Vranana ni padyatt oop tva matarya pretam
dharmam puranmanupalyanti tasyai prajam dravidam ceh dehi
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yeh naari patikul ke hith ki abhilasha karti hui swadharm ka nirvah karne hetu aayi hai. Dharma mei neerat iss naari ke liye sansaar mei putra, pautradi tatha dhan-sampada pradan kare.
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The meaning of this shloka is that once a husband dies, his wife is considered as the owner of his family and wealth. No one it states that a wife should be burnt of a husband's pyre !!
Atharva veda - 18-3-2
uddisharva naaryabhi jeevlokam gatasumetmup shesh ehi
hastagrabhasya didhishostvedam patyurjanitvambhi sam babhoot
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Oh woman, ur husband has already died and now u must give up the attachment. Leave his body and now walk towards the worldly affairs , i.e. ur family. Your beloved ones i.e. ur children and ur grandchildren will protect u after the demise of ur husband. Stay near them only.
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This shows that a woman should give up the attachment she had with the body of her husband, who is now dead and she would stay under the protection of her children, who're a part of her family.
Atharva veda - 18-3-3
apyasham yuvatim neeyamanaam jeevaam mretebhaya parineeyamaanaam
andhen yat tamsa pravartaseet prakto apachimanayam datenaam
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We've seen the young woman who was following the funeral of her dead husband towards the graveyard, she turned back towards her home. This woman was deeply disturbed by the darkness of the grief.
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this shloka shows that women used to take part in the final rites of her husband. All these shlokas show that there is no mention of sati pratha in atharva veda, and on the contrary, they support the life of the wife after her husband's demise.
As i've shown in my previous posts what the vedas talk about widows.... THEY'RE NOT TO BE BURNT....
However, when the muslim invaders started looting india... they, killed millions of innocent hindus.... looted their homes, shops and temples.... these muslim invaders had lust for hindu women and used to kidnap them to rape them and keep them in their harem....
To save their honour, the women preferred to die.... Often the hindu rulers, died with their army, and their women committed Sati, to save their honour....
these lusty muslim invaders, never even spared the corpses of dead hindu women to satisfy their lust and hence, the hindu women preferred to burn their bodies, rather than let these muslim invaders get their corpses.
Hence, this practice was started..... It should have been banned after the muslim rule ended, but unfortunately, it was attached to religion.... by some ignorant people and became mandatory.
HUSBAND OF A HINDU WOMAN DIES, SHE AS PER THE RELIGION HAS TO BURN HERSELF ON THE PYRE OF HER HUSBAND.its called sati
Sati pratha is NOT a Hindu tradition. There is no mention or example of Sati in any old Hindu scriptures.
When Raja Dashrath dies in Ramayana, none of his queens perform Sati act.
In Mahabharata, many warriors died in the war, but there is no mention of Sati act anywhere.
Sati act gained tremendous momentum during Mogul wars with Rajputs, where Muslim invaders raped Rajput women, to save their honor, the brave Rajput women prefer to die with their warrior husbands, rather than becoming victims of rape by Muslim Mogul monsters.
Because Sati is not a general Hindu tradition, that is why Raja Ram Mohan Rai was able to ban the Sati act by law, in India.
The Sati pratha did not exist in all parts of India, it gained momentum among Rajputs for the reason mentioned above.
