Thus the practice, as is evident from this chronicle, is the same as described or referred to by Bana in the seventh century. But even in this a gradual change in the extension of the scope of the practice is to be noticed. The earliest occurs in the 10th century, 902 A.D., when, on the death King Samkara Varman, his three queens, two maid servants, and one male servant, called Jayasimha, burnt themselves.65

The next incident took place on the death of King Ananta, 1081 A.D. After his death not only his queen. but two male servants, a litter-carrier, and a few female servants immolated themselves.66 The next instance of Anumarana is on the death of Kalasa in 1089, when it concubine immolated herself along with the queens.67 Next comes the Anumarana of the Queens of Malla 1089-1161 A.D.

Here we see the sister-in-law of Malla, his two daughters-in-law, six female attendants, his mother and his nurse burning themselves, not with the body of Malla, but in separate places.68 The last instance of Anumarana occurred in the 12th century. Here we see only the four queens of Sussala following him on his death.69

This clearly indicates that the scope of Anumarana had gradually widened. Before the Gupta period the Anumarana was co-extensive with the later Sati rite, that is, the self-immolation of a wife after the death of her husband. Not a single instance is known from the Buddhist, Brahmanical. and Jain literature, of relatives other than wives, friends and dependants of the deceased burning themselves on a man's funeral pyre or on separate piles.