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THE? STORY OPi Ml I20DI&N PRINCESS. 247T
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* The Press Has Teemed Of Late Years Wit...
emergency , ' , this truly ascetic ; life , in . which prayer and work , with the smallest possible : amount . of restwere the only alternations , knew
little : variety beyond what was afforded , by religious fasts and festivals , of which . she was very observant , her devotions varying * every
month ; according to ; which , deity was presiding over that special season : and . greatly as both , her mental and . bodily vigour must
hava b ; een , taxed by such ; a course ,, she ; continued ., it with unintermittent energy from the age of thirty until her death , when she _^
attained sixty years . Destined ; like most who have been eminent in moral excellence _^ _,
to . be " perfected through suffering ; " a severe trial awaited herdeclining . Few family joys had" fallen to her share , but
Muchta when hu still sban years d remained and son . . to wer whom e both , she removed was fondl ,. one attached daughter . but named to , y ,
whose lot there fell also much domestic sorrow .. She had married > and borne an only sonwho died soon after attaining manhood _,
Muchta and when childless , about a and year widowed , after , her j resolve husban d to d also submit ; died herself _> the bereaved to : the :
fearful suttee , and immolate herself on her husband ' s funeral pyre . As a mother , and a sovereign Alia had a double claim , upon heir
forego daughter her ' s fatal * fealty pur , p and ose , in even both in characters the humblest she manner besought imp her loring to
her by all she held sacred not thus to leave her desolate and alone in the world . Remonstrance and entreaty were alike vain , for
Muchta had inherited her mother _' s firmness , and nothing now could move her from the fixed resolution she had taken . _" You _tr
life are old , mother onl , child " she and replied , husb and and a < few are years will and end your when pious-; my y my ; but gone the , you of
follow terminating , life , I it feel with , will honour be will insupportable then have ; passed . " opportunit Nothing y but " absolute force could have restrained her from executing the purpose
thus deliberately determined on , and this her mother , herself a . sharer in the cruel creed of Hindostancould not . feel justified in
, be emp averted loying ; Alia and braced finding herself thus that to me , the et threatened it in a irit doom worth could of her not - spy
, name . Determined to remain to the last with her daughter , she * walked in the funeral processionand took her place almost
closearms to the , she fatal stood pile , , where crashing , supported down , her by angui two Brahmins sh , and maintaining who held her * at _~
rushed least were , concluded an fiercely outwardl , to the y wrap tranquil torch her , app demean devoted lied , and our child , the until in quick the consuming -spreading last ceremonies torture flame . - ;
roun Nature d its , overstrained victim , the . writhing * gave way moth at er last was ,, . and seen , as after the a v blaze ain strugg curled le * ' with her supportersto in her anguish , the hands they held
and would not unloose , gnaw while in a burst of intolerable agony her ,
thrilling shrieks pierced the air , and miDgled . with the shouts of
The? Story Opi Ml I20di&N Princess. 247t
THE ? STORY _OPi Ml I _20 DI & N PRINCESS . _247 _T
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1863, page 247, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061863/page/31/
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