सती

Sanskrit

Noun

सती • (satī) f

  1. a good and virtuous or faithful wife (esp. applied in later use to the faithful wife popularly called suttee who burns herself with her husband's corpse.
  2. a wife, female (of an animal).
  3. a female ascetic.

Proper Noun

सती • (satī) ?

  1. N. of the goddess दुर्गा or उमा (sometimes described as Truth personified or as a daughter of दक्ष and wife of भव [ शिव], and sometimes represented as putting an end to herself by योग, or at a later period burning herself on the funeral pyre of her husband).
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