...Due to the low status of women, a custom of suicide for the wife called Sati (meaning "chaste wife") was practiced among the upper and middle castes, in which the wife was cremated alive along with the body of her husband, and many Sati memorial pillars remain in Indian villages. [Toshio Yamazaki] From [Bedouin] … *Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Aira" are listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…この婦女の地位の低さから,サティー(〈貞淑な妻〉の意)とよばれる妻の殉死が,上層・中層カーストの間でおこなわれ,それは夫の遺体と一緒に生きながら妻も火葬されるもので,インドの村々にはサティーの記念像柱が多数残っている。【山崎 利男】 【ベドウィン】より… ※「アーイラ」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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