the ethnological notebooks of karl marx - Marxists Internet Archive

funeral pyre. There is no question that there was the closest connectionbetween the law and the religious custom, and the w idow was made tosacrifice herself in order that her tenancy for life might be got out of the way.The anxiety of her family [Umgekehrt: of her husband's family, die erbte;nur die weiblichen Glieder ihrer family waren interessirt in her Stridhana;im übrigen konnte ihre family nur dch religiösen Fanatismus u. Einflussder Brahminen interessirt sein] that the rite should be performed, whichseemed so striking to the first English observers o f the practice, was, infact, explained by the coarsest motives; but the Brahmins [ausser d.ecclesiastical Brahmins could, namentlich in d. higher classes, d. Verwandtscftd. Mannes musste es gross