sati

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[ˈsʌtiː], (Noun)

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- a former practice in India whereby a widow threw herself on to her husband's funeral pyre


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Hindi, from Sanskrit satī ‘faithful wife’, from sat ‘good’


[ˈsʌtiː], (Noun)

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- the wife of Shiva, reborn as Parvati. According to some accounts, she died by throwing herself into a sacred fire


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