sati

/suh-tee, suht-ee/US // sʌˈti, ˈsʌt i //

萨蒂,萨提,萨提斯,萨提亚

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : 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.

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.