sati / sʌˈti, ˈsʌt i /
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sati 的定义
n. 名词 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.
更多sati例句
- When Sati's husband was slighted by her father, the Deva-rishi, Daksha, she cast herself on the sacrificial fire.
- In the fourth dwelt the terrible serpent Sati-temui, which preyed on the dead who dwelt in the Duat.
- This transit had been the bugbear of the journey ever since news reached us of the destruction of the Sati scow.
- But when their wives came to commit sati by the stone figures the god Siva intervened and brought them to life again.
- Next day the body of her husband was burned in the presence of several thousand spectators, who had assembled to see the sati.