Sati Shrines

Satī the feminine of satya which means "true" was a religious funeral practice among some Indian communities in which a recently widowed woman would have immolated herself on her husband’s funeral pyre.The term is derived from the original name of the goddess Sati, also known as Dakshayani, who self-immolated because she was unable to bear her father Daksha's humiliation of her (living) husband Shiva.The practice had been banned several times, with the current ban dating to 1829 by the British.

Sati shrine

The term may also be used to refer to the widow herself. The term sati is now sometimes interpreted as "chaste woman."Numerous sati stones (or shrines) are found across Bundelkhand which are worshipped even today; 'sati maiya' is believed to grant wishes and protect husbands.
There are also numerous villages with names derived from 'sati': Satpara, Sataurha, Satrayee, Sataree, Satuniya, Satipura, Satariya

Case-Tola Khangaran is a village westward from Rath Near the bank of Dhasan River.here live is the majority of Bubdelknd's famous historical descendant of bravo Khangaar of Gdhkundar. Thats why the name of this place is Tola Khangaran. Here lived a kayastha named Lala Parm. who has only one married son. Lala's son became ill and died. ultimately, His wife expressed her the desire  to her father-in-law to be sati with her husband. She has prepared herself for that. She done her full makeup, wearing new clothes, put vermilion on the forehead. Eyes Mascara, color on legs, basil and coconut in her hand  sat on the mare. and walked with the dead body of her husband. Sati news flashed like lightning in the neighboring village of Tola Khangran . Many men and women of the other Village came by the bullock carts and gathered to see the sati  of carts Sati family appeared . The funeral location became like a fair. Sati funeral pyre was decorated. Sati accedes with husband. Sati kept her husband's head on her thigh. people set fire on pier and soon Sati  was dedicated to fire.After this Collector of Hamirpur Mr. Sridhar Nehru arrested many man and women and applied anti-sati law Section 302.and put them in jail. 

Other phenomina of Sati around Hamirpur are :

In 1979 an Aahirwar woman from Tathera village in Mahoba district reportedly committed sati.
In 1984 An Sati is known in Jari village of Banda district.
In 1994 Pawan Devi tried to commit sati in Chodhry Mohalla in Banda.  She was rescued by the police after she jumped onto her husband's funeral pyre.
In 1999, Charan in Satpura village of Mahoba district is said to have committed sati.
In 2002 Kattubayee from the Nayee community committed sati in Patna Tamoli, Panna district. The district has five recently built sati temples.
In 2005 Ramkumari, a Brahmin woman from Banudarhi village in Banda district, reportedly committed sati. However, the administration said it was a case of suicide.

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