IN SHORT #chutiyaap

No. There is a double standard. Some grieving husbands have died soon after losing thei rwives but nit at their own hands.

Patriarchal inhumanity...

There were rare instances of husbands committing sati. They are recorded in some inscriptions.

It had to be voluntary, that was the true system that got corrupted. Some spiritually evolved wife's spontaneously died on hearing the news their husbands had departed

By ensuring that the women who outlived their husbands lived a life of hell on earth, those scoundrels of those ages sometimes made 'sati' decision easier for the women :(

I shudder at d thought of it, unspeakabl shame to d hipocritical ways of d rotten minds !!!! Long back i read " shadow of the moon " there is graphic description of dis descipable ceremony in dh book &it haunted me for quiet atime..:(

if not sati the woman wastaken advantage of by her father in law,brothers in law or any other powerful man because a widow looses not only her husand but also the protection from other men. I am not condoning the practice of 'sati' but those poor women had no where to turn for support.