sati

noun

a Hindu practice whereby a widow immolates herself on the funeral pyre of her husband: now abolished by law.

a Hindu widow who so immolates herself.

Also, sa·tī, suttee.

Origin:
1780–90; < Sanskrit satī good woman, woman devoted to her husband

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noun Hindu Mythology.

the wife of Rudra, who immolated herself following a quarrel between her father and her husband.

Also, Sa·tī.

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