traditional Hindu practice of a widow immolating herself on her husband's funeral pyre.
The daughter of Daksa Prajapati. She immolated herself for the insult offered to her husband Siva by her father, and was then reborn as the daughter of Himlaya and again won Siva as her husband. She was the mother of Kirtikeya (The God of war) and of Ganapati (The God of learning, wisdom and good luck).
devoted wife; the ultimate expression of stri-dharma.
Self-immolation by Hindu widow on the funeral pyre of her husband.
The act of a widowed Indian woman throwing herself onto the pyre of her husband.
of suttee A (cruel) Hindu tradition in which the widow by the death of her husband immolates herself on the pyre. Before doing so she presses her hand in a red pigment and left an impression of the hand into the door-post. In case of princesses or queens from whom the husband died in battle the hand print was made in a special sati stone on a wall. Although this tradition is now forbidden by the law sporadically it's still practised in Rajasthan. Examples: see Junagarh Fort in Bikaner and Meherangarh Fort in Jodhpur. More detailed information: " Hindu Social Practices: Dowry, Sati and Child Marriage".
a faithful/loyal/ chaste wife
a woman who is devoted to her husband
Widow who, out of her total dedication and commitment to her husband, voluntary commits immolation by throwing herself on her dead husband's burning funeral pyre.
The higher castes believed that the faithfulness of their wives was proved by their jumping into the funeral fire in which the bodies of their husbands were cremated.
a woman who immolates herself on her husbands pyre becomes sati. The word is sometimes used to refer to the act, or practise of sati (self-immolation). [suttee
Ritual in India of immolating surviving widows with the bodies of their deceased husbands. (p. 323)
Satī (Devanagari: सती) (also suttee) is a Hindu funeral custom, largely defunct in modern IndiaCommission of Sati Prevention Act, 1987 (Act No. 3 of 1988), Delhi, 1990.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5273336.stm India wife dies on husband's pyre, BBC (see lines 7 & sect 2)[http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jwh/16.3/fisch.html#FOOT46 Dying for the Dead: Sati in Universal Context, by Jorg Fisch(see sec 8 para 1), in which the dead man's widow used to immolate herself on her husband’s funeral pyre.