सती [ satī ] [ satī́ ]1 f. ( fem. of [ sat ] ; for 2. see p. 1138 , col. 2) her ladyship , your ladyship ( = [ bhavatī ] , sometimes = " you " ) Lit. MBh.

  a good and virtuous or faithful wife (esp. applied in later use to the faithful wife ( popularly called Suttee ) who burns herself with her husband's corpse Lit. W. ; compar. [ satī-tarā ] , [ sati-t ] or [ sat-t ] ) Lit. Kāv. Lit. VarBṛS. Lit. Kathās.

  a wife , female (of an animal) Lit. BhP.

  a female ascetic Lit. MW.

  a fragrant earth Lit. L.

  two kinds of metre Lit. Col.

  N. of the wife of Viśvāmitra Lit. RV.

  of the goddess Durgā or Umā (sometimes described as Truth personified or as a daughter of Daksha and wife of Bhava ( Śiva ) , and sometimes represented as putting an end to herself by Yoga , or at a later period burning herself on the funeral pyre of her husband) Lit. Pur. Lit. Kum.

  of one of the wives of Aṅgiras Lit. BhP.

  of various women of modern times ( also [ -devī ] ) Lit. Cat.