08-26-2008, 09:45 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-Bharatvarsh+Aug 20 2008, 12:12 AM-->QUOTE(Bharatvarsh @ Aug 20 2008, 12:12 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->is the practice prevalent in UP?
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Yes, specially in the bundelkhand region. Bards still sing in Bhojpuri and Braja the tales of such heroic suicides on battlefields, mostly from the era of Parmars-Chandels-Chauhans.
In more recent times, one case that comes to mind is that of Chandrashekhar Azad, who rather than being arrested by the British police, shot himself in the head at Prayag (ironically, at stones throw distance from Nehru's ancestral house).
Mahabharata mentions the braves being ever-ready for heroic suicide. For example arjuna's suicide-vows on several occasions come to mind (intended by entering a burning pyre though).
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Yes, specially in the bundelkhand region. Bards still sing in Bhojpuri and Braja the tales of such heroic suicides on battlefields, mostly from the era of Parmars-Chandels-Chauhans.
In more recent times, one case that comes to mind is that of Chandrashekhar Azad, who rather than being arrested by the British police, shot himself in the head at Prayag (ironically, at stones throw distance from Nehru's ancestral house).
Mahabharata mentions the braves being ever-ready for heroic suicide. For example arjuna's suicide-vows on several occasions come to mind (intended by entering a burning pyre though).