Sateen Jo Aastan - stock photo
Various grave situated over the mound referred to be as SATEEN JO AASTAN, alongside the River Indus flowing there by the city of Rohri & Sukkur.
Sateen Jo Aastan is the resting place for the Seven Female-friends. According to folklore these female friends resided here. These unmarried female-friends veiled themselves from all males, a practice called purdah (the practice of preventing men from seeing women), which is also referred to as sattei. But for the fear of a tyrannical raja resulted in their disappearance, possibly in a cave in the side of a hill which is now called as "SATEEN JO AASTAN".
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