They [the Mughals] do not, indeed, forbid it (satī) by a positive law, because it is a part of their policy to leave the idolatrous population, which is so much more numerous than their own, in the free exercise of its religion; but the practice is checked by indirect means.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "They [the Mughals] do not, indeed, forbid it (satī) by a positive law, because it is a part of their policy to leave the idolatrous population, which is so much more numerous than their own, in the free exercise of its religion; but the practice is checked by indirect means." in the context of "François Bernier, Travels in the Mogul Empire A.D. 1656–1668. Translated by Archibald Constable (1916), p. 306. As quoted in Muzaffar Alam, The Languages of Political Islam: India 1200-1800 (2004), p. 76" to mean that wisdom is timeless.