A fictional advocate of this practice quotes a text that relates humans' thirty-five million hairs to the years of joy it produces in a dialogue by a reformer who worked with the Baptist missionary William Carey. This practice is performed on a smaller scale than the related practice of jauhar (JOW-har), which was likewise historically (10[1]-5[1])popular in Rajasthan. Ascetic celibacy was encouraged in place of this practice in tracts by (10[1])Ram Mohan (10[1])Roy. In an origin story for this practice, Daksha dishonors Shiva's first wife, after whom this (10[1])practice is (10[1])named. The lack of participants' historical testimony on this practice is examined in Gayatri Spivak's "Can the Subaltern Speak," which discusses William Bentinck's 1829 ban on it. For 10 (10[4])points, name this controversial practice in which Hindu widows ascended their husbands' funeral pyre. ■END■