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sa•ti
(su tē′, sut′ē),USA pronunciation n.
Sa•ti (su tē′, sut′ē),USA pronunciation n. Hindu Mythology.
- Eastern Religionsa Hindu practice whereby a widow immolates herself on the funeral pyre of her husband: now abolished by law.
- Eastern Religionsa Hindu widow who so immolates herself.
- Sanskrit satī good woman, woman devoted to her husband
- 1780–90
Sa•ti (su tē′, sut′ē),USA pronunciation n. Hindu Mythology.
- Eastern Religionsthe wife of Rudra, who immolated herself following a quarrel between her father and her husband.
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