Question

How are women depicted in the stories about Rajput heroes?

Answer 1

Sometimes these stories depict women as the cause for conflict, as men fought with one another to either win or protect them (women). Women are also depicted as following their heroic husbands in both life and death. We are familiar with the stories about the practice of sati or the immolation of widows on the funeral pyre of their husbands. so. those who followed the heroic ideal often had to pay for it with their lives.