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Plutarch mentions one of them, named Calanus, who followed 
Alexander from India: being seized with a dysentery at Pasa- 
gardus, he prepared his own funeral pile; and, after performingsome 
religious ceremonies, laid himself on it with great composure, until 
burnt to death. Diodorus describes the immolation of an Indian 
widow two thousand years ago, in the army of Eumenes, who 
burnt herself on the funeral pile of her husband, in the manner 
I have just related. 
