This remarkable sixteenth-century copperplate engraving was executed by Joannes van Doetechum for Jan Huyghen van Linschoten's landmark travel narrative, the Itinerario (1596). The image dramatically illustrates the Hindu ritual of Sati, depicting a widow preparing to leap onto the flaming funeral pyre of her deceased husband. Dense, billowy clouds of smoke rise into the sky as attendants on the right pour ritual liquids onto the pyre to intensify the flames. On the left side of the scene, a group of musicians playing drums and horn instruments, along with veiled observers and Brahmin figures, witness the sacrifice. Below the primary image, bilingual explanatory texts in Latin and Dutch describe the customs of the Brahmins and the widow's devotion in joining her late husband in death.