It is expected in the wife, even in circumstances of unnatural conduct on the part of the living husband. This devotion to the departed husbands is not confined to the widow only. The exemplary lie which the late Queen Victoria led had the cordial approval of her Indian subjects, and it enhanced their admiration for her, and the women of India regarded her more as one of them than of the people of the far-off island, whose modes of life they have become familiar with from those of them sojourning in this land. Those times were more romantic, and influenced the minds of women more readily than times modern, when thoughts and feelings have changed according to the altered circumstances of the country, and women think it more noble to live and endure, and serve better their departed husbands according to the ideal set before them. In olden times the tendencies of thought and feeling gave an impetus to the doing of such deeds. Voluntary immolation on the funeral pyre of the husband was of frequent occurence before Lord William Bentincks' suppression of it it is of rare occurrence now, no doubt, on account of the act. The writer of "Indian affairs" in the Times has missed his mark when he wrote of the "wretched woman" occasionally seeking in death an escape from present affliction and a miserable widowhood." "Miserable widowhood" ! But ask the widow, who cheerfully bears her condition, and she will give another answer. But such an extreme step was purely voluntary, and never was made compulsory. If the husband predecease the wife, she must face the new situation with a courageous heart and remain to pray day and night for the repose of his soul or if unable to bear the pang of separation, she wishes to wilfully ascend the funeral pyre to be consumed to ashes with her dead husband, religion allows her to do so. If the husband by accident becomes permanently maimed or subject to some loathsome disease, the partner of his joys and woes as well must cheerfully accept the new condition in the spirit of the teaching of her religion. The first and most important commandment which the Hindu woman is bound to obey is: "Thou shalt have not others as lord but thy husband." She shall not marry another, either while he lives or after, if her lot be cast with an unworthy husband, she must bow to the inevitable.
And marriage is a sacrament, a union sanctified in the presence of God before the sacrificial fire, and not a civil contractual relationship. Marriage is binding on her, and no woman is said to fulfil the conditions of the ideal, until and unless she goes through the marriage rites and performs her duties as married woman. Such is the belief instilled into every Hindu girl before she becomes a wife, and a wife she should become. Milton's ideal has a close resemblance when he speaks of Adam and Eve: The greatest of the South Indian poets says: "The Woman that worships not God, but her husband, when such an one says, 'let there be rain,' it descends." Here is a religion given to the woman to follow, a faith to observe, quite in accordance with the genius of the nation, which in each of its component parts and states of life requires in the matter of religion an individuality and speciality to faithfully follow and take pride in. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.The Hindu Ideal of Womanhood BY T. Helen Andelin is the founder of the Fascinating Womanhood movement and is also the author of The Fascinating Girl.
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