1 John Stratton Hawley,ed., Sati: The Blessing and the Curse (Oxford University Press, 1994), p. 101
2 Hawley, p. 107
3 Hawley, p. 8
4 David R. Kinsley,ed., Hindu Goddesses (University of California Press, 1986), p. 37-38
5 Hawley, p. 50
6 Kinsley, p. 38
7 Kinsley, p. 38
8 Hawley, p. 14
9 Fire and Faith: out of immolation, a goddess,Time, September 28, 1987 v 130 p. 41
10 Hawley, p. 14
11 Hawley, p. 161
12 Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain,(Oxford University Press, 1985) p. 183
13 Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, The Subject of Sati:Pain and Death in the Contemporary Discourse on Sati, (Yale Journal of Criticism, volume 3 number 2, 1990) p. 7
14 Kim Hewitt, Mutilating the Body:Identity in Blood and Ink,(Bowling Green State University Press, 1997) p. 41
15 Hawley, p. 3
16 Hawley, p. 3