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First, let us understand what "marriage" signifies. The word itself has the same meaning as the Latin word conjugium and represents a conjunction or union together. Carried out to its higher or more interior meaning, marriage signifies the joining of good and truth the "good" being represented by the woman and "truth" being represented by the man.
It is quite another thing with the Indian women for it being the custom there for the men to have many wives, and the best beloved of them to kill herself at her husband's decease, every one of them makes it the business of her whole life to obtain this privilege and gain this advantage over her companions; and the good offices they do their husbands aim at no other recompense but to be preferred in accompanying him in death: "Ubi mortifero jacta est fax ultima lecto, Uxorum fusis stat pia turba comis Et certamen habent lethi, quae viva sequatur Conjugium: pudor est non licuisse mori.
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