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Updated: May 17, 2025
"You expect, perhaps, to hear that this unhappy victim was the wife of some Brahmman of high cast. She was the wife of a barber who dwelt at Serampore, and had died that morning, leaving the son I have mentioned, and a daughter about eleven years of age. Thus has this infernal superstition aggravated the common miseries of life, and left these children stripped of both their parents in one day!
Turning to the Brahmman who was the chief actor in this horrid tragedy, a young fellow of about twenty-two, and one of the most hardened that ever I accosted, I told him that the system which allowed of these cruelties, could no more proceed from God than darkness from the sun; and warned him, that he must appear at the judgment-seat of God, to answer for this murder.
'You have murdered your mother! your sin is great. The sin of the Brahmman, who urged you to it, is greater; but yours is very great. 'What could I do? It is the custom. 'True, but this custom is not of God; but proceedeth from the devil, who wishes to destroy mankind.
If the person be Potect, or sinful; that is, has killed a Brahmman, or drinks spirituous liquors, or has committed some sin in his former life, on account of which he is afflicted with elephantiasis, consumption, leprosy, &c. all will be blotted out by his wife burning with him, after proper atonement has been made. A woman with a young child, or being pregnant, cannot burn with her husband.
How will you bear the reflection that you have murdered your only surviving parent? He seemed to feel what was said to him; but, just at this instant, that hardened wretch, the Brahmman, rushed in, and drew him away, while the tears were standing in his eyes. After reasoning with some others, and telling them of the Saviour of the world, I returned home with a mind full of horror and disgust.
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