(quoted by Brick 2010, p. 204)

While this sounds fairly general there are other instances that indicate that at that time the position in the *sat¯ı*-debate tended to be class-specific:

Due to Vedic injunctions a Brahmin woman should not follow her husband in death, but for the other social classes tradition holds this to be the supreme Law of Women. When a woman of Brahmin caste follows her husband in death, by killing herself she leads neither herself nor her husband to heaven.
