Widows behaving in this way are virtuous and even if their husbands were suffering in hell, they would take them to heaven after their death.īrihaspati had told to Lopamudra in relation with the code of female behavior and the same was narrated by the Sanyasi to the bereaved young woman.should do `tiltarpan’, worship Vishnu daily and act as per the wishes of her dead husband. If she has a son, she should act as per his wishes. Whatever vrata she observes, it udyapan (ending function) should also be duly done. She should take meal cooked out of only one corn in Kartik. She should offer umbrellas and shoes to persons going on pilgrimage. In the Kartik ‘deep’ should be given to a Brahmin. In the Vaishakh month she should give an earthen vessel in charity.
She should not: take milk, should not sleep on the bedstead, should not take mangal bath, nor take `pan’. In the dark fortnight (Krishna or Vad) she should go on decreasing one morsel daily and take only one morsel of food on the Amavasya (new moon day). take one morsel of food on the first day of the bright (shuddha) fortnight, increase one morsel daily and take 15 morsels on the Poornima. She should bathe daily and should have only one meal every day. She should shave off the hair on the head else the husband goes to hell.
But if she is pregnant, if she has a child, who is being fed, on her breast or if the husband dies at a far off place, then she should not observe `Sati’. Brihaspati told regarding the behavior of a widow as follows: If the husband dies in the presence of the wife, then should observe `Sati’.
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