Aouda
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Aouda (औद / Auda), a character in Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, is an Indian-European princess accompanied by Phileas Fogg and Passepartout. The daughter of a Bombay Parsi merchant, she was married against her will to the Hindu ruler of Bundelkhand, an Indian princely state. At the death of her husband, she is about to be sacrificed by Hindu monks as a sati at her husband's funeral pyre.
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