File:Codice Casanatense Hindu Burial.jpg
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English: Anonymous 16th century Portuguese illustration from the Códice Casanatense, depicting a Hindu ritual, in which a widow is buried alive with her dead husband. The inscription reads: "Gentile women of the caste of the cattle drivers, who is buried alive with her husband after he had died" |
| Date | circa 1540 |
| Source | Album di disegni, illustranti usi e costumi dei popoli d'Asia e d'Africa con brevi dichiarazioni in lingua portoghese, Biblioteca Casanatense, Rome. http://opac.casanatense.it/Record.htm?idlist=&record=19917226124917354089 |
| Author | Unknown author |
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| current | 10:21, 14 December 2017 | 1,854 × 1,325 (664 KB) | Wareno | User created page with UploadWizard |
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