Also, Vedas do not sanction sati. Sati is where when a man dies and his wife loved him sooo much she wanted to die with him and threw herself on the funeral pyre.
Later, in certain corrupt, superstitious, venal cults in Hindustan, circumstances may have come about in which widows were shunned, thrown from their cast (outcast), and offered the pyre to avoid the shame of becoming untouchable.
No Indian citizen would publicly defend this today, although I understand things can still be really difficult for widows, esp. young ones.
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Sati still goes on. It’s just not spoken of, and happens mostly in the remote villages.