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I was reading an article on Sati system and found this link...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sati_(practice)

 

while going through this article, under the section " Justifications

and criticisms " , I found this below text which says Sri Madwacharya

supported Sati system.. Can someone please comment on this and

immediately rectify the WIKI page? How far is this true that Sri

Madwacharya, our esteemed guru supported Sati system??

 

" Justifications and criticisms

 

Brahmin scholars of the second millennium justified the practice, and

gave reasonings as to how the scriptures could be said to justify

them. Among them were Vijnanesvara, of the Chalukya court, and later

Madhavacharya, theologian and minister of the court of the

Vijayanagara empire, according to Shastri, who quotes their reasoning.

It was lauded by them as required conduct in righteous women, and it

was explained that this was considered not to be suicide (suicide was

otherwise variously banned or discouraged in the scriptures). It was

deemed an act of peerless piety, and was said to purge the couple of

all accumulated sin, guarantee their salvation and ensure their

reunion in the afterlife. "

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This system was developed during the ages when Moghuls invaded India and were plundering it.sripathi_k_s <sripathi_k_s wrote: I was reading an article on Sati system and found this link... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sati_(practice) while going through this article, under the section "Justifications and criticisms", I found this below text which says Sri Madwacharya supported Sati system.. Can someone please comment on this and immediately rectify the WIKI

page? How far is this true that Sri Madwacharya, our esteemed guru supported Sati system?? "Justifications and criticisms Brahmin scholars of the second millennium justified the practice, and gave reasonings as to how the scriptures could be said to justify them. Among them were Vijnanesvara, of the Chalukya court, and later Madhavacharya, theologian and minister of the court of the Vijayanagara empire, according to Shastri, who quotes their reasoning. It was lauded by them as required conduct in righteous women, and it was explained that this was considered not to be suicide (suicide was otherwise variously banned or discouraged in the scriptures). It was deemed an act of peerless piety, and was said to purge the couple of all accumulated sin, guarantee their salvation and ensure their reunion in the afterlife."

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> Madhavacharya, theologian and minister of the court of the

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I guess the author is referring to some mAdhavAchArya and not our

AchArya, MadhvAchArya.

 

Regards,

Dilip