The rite in India whereby a widow taking her own life in order to accompany her deceased husband into the afterlife. The practice is often suggested when a male and female skeleton are found in the same grave, especially if the female is a significantly younger individual and is placed in a subsidiary position in the grave. This former Indian custom involved a widow burning herself, either on the funeral pyre of her dead husband or soon after his death. Sometimes, the wife was immolated before the husband's expected death in battle, and it was then called 'jauhar'. Numerous suttee stones, memorials to the widows who died this way, are found all over India, the earliest dated 510 AD.