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  sati

  noun

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

  noun

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

sati

¹ American  

[suh-tee, suht-ee] / sʌˈti, ˈsʌt i /

Or satī,

noun

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

2. a Hindu widow who so immolates herself.

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Sati ² American  

[suh-tee, suht-ee] / sʌˈti, ˈsʌt i /

Or Satī

noun

Hindu Mythology.

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

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Etymology

Origin of sati

First recorded in 1780–90, sati is from the Sanskrit word satī good woman, woman devoted to her husband

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He said he had spent 45 days in prison on charges of sati glorification but was acquitted in January 2004 for “lack of evidence”.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2024

After its glorification was made illegal, the group dropped sati from its name.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2024

Scholars of the history of self-immolation typically date the phenomenon to antiquity, to early Christian martyrdoms, and particularly to the Hindu practice of sati.

From Salon ● May 4, 2024

A wealthier widow, particularly from the Kshatriya or warrior caste, might throw herself on her husband’s funeral pyre in an act of ritual suicide known as sati.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

The Chitrakārs of Mandla say that their ancestors belonged to Garha, near Jubbulpore, where the tomb of a woman of their family who became sati is still to be seen.

From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

“Cracks are widening every day and people are in fear. … It’s a time bomb,” said Atul Sati, an activist with the Save Joshimath Committee.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2023

"It doesn't look like the subsiding areas of Joshimath - which comprise settlements, houses and constructions - will survive," says geologist Dr SP Sati.

From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2023

"The administration woke up from its slumber when the situation started getting grave and now they started relief efforts," Sati said, "Our town is sinking and we need to save it."

From Reuters ● Jan. 7, 2023

There are only four classes of drugs that treat fungal infections, “and very few new ones in the pipeline,” said Dr. Hatim Sati, another W.H.O. official who helped to write the report.

From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2022

The Sati sept apparently commemorate by their name an ancestress who distinguished herself by self-immolation, naturally a very rare occurrence in so low a caste as the Pankas.

From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell