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11. This was her fate under the Hindu Society and Manu Laws or Hindu Laws. It is she who created coparcenary and its coparceners, nursed and looked after them ; but in reward to her, she was taken in it to create or produce and bring up the coparceners of the Hindu coparcenary. Her condition on account of such position and thinking of the Hindu male, Hindu society and coparceners of the Hindu coparcenary, became so bad that all types of ceremonies, ordeals came into existence in the Hindu community or society namely that of Sati and Devdasi and crossing into fire to prove her purity.