सती (satī) is a Sanskrit word meaning being, existing, occurring, abiding in, belonging to, living, lasting, real, actual, or true. Its 39 recorded definitions are grouped into 15 contexts, among them Adjective: Being, Existing, Real, True, Good, A Virtuous Wife; The Practice of Sati, Proper Noun: Other Women Named Satī.
(H1) [Printed book page 1134,2] सत् (sat)mf(सती (satī))n. (pr. p. of √1.अस् (as)) being, existing, occurring, happening, being present (सतो मे (sato me), ‘when I was present’; often connected with other participles or with an adverb, e.g.नाम्नि कृते सति (nāmni kṛte sati), ‘when the name has been given’; तथा सति (tathā sati), ‘if it be so’; also ibc., where sometimes = ‘possessed of’ cf.सत् (sat)-कल्पवृक्ष (sat-kalpavṛkṣa)), RV. &c. &c. [ID=229490]
1. Real, actual, or true.
2. Good, right, or proper.
3. Beautiful, wise, venerable, or honest.
real, actual, as any one or anything ought to be, true, good, right (तन् न सत् (tan na sat), ‘that is not right’), beautiful, wise, venerable, honest (often in comp. See below), RV. &c. &c. [ID=229495]
a good and virtuous or faithful wife (esp. applied in later use to the faithful w° (°) [popularly called Suttee] who burns herself with her husband's corpse, W.; compar.सती-तरा (satī-tarā), सति-त् (sati-t)° (°) or सत्-त् (sat-t)° (°)), Kāv.; VarBṛS.; Kathās. &c. [ID=229693]
सती (satī) [Printed book page 1083-c]1 A virtuous or good woman (or wife); Kumārasambhava (Bombay) 1. 21. [ID=29046]
— Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. A virtuous or faithful wife.
2. The name of Vishvamitra's wife.
3. The name of a daughter of Daksha and wife of Shiva.
सती (satī) [Printed book page 330-2] सती (satī) sat-ī́, f.pr.pt. (√as) being etc.; f. you (= bhavatī); good, virtuous, or faithful wife (ord. mg.); wife (rare); N.of Viśvāmitraʼs wife; N.of a daughter of Dakṣa and wife of Bhava (Śiva): -tva,n. wifely fidelity; -vrata,n.id.: ā,f. faithful wife; -saras,n. lake of Satī. [ID=18608]
— Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. A virtuous wife. 2. A female ascetic. 3. The goddess Durga.
[Printed book page 750-03] सती (satī)f. 1. A virtuous wife, सती (satī) प्रियतमा (satī priyatamā)Bhartr. ii.25; 2. female ascetic; 3. name of the goddess Durgā. [ID=39384]
— Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. A virtuous or faithful wife, especially one who immolates herself on her husband's funeral pyre. 2. A female ascetic. 3. The goddess Durga or Uma, daughter of Daksha and wife of Shiva. 4. A fragrant earth called Surat earth. 5. A species of the Pratishtha metre.
सती (satī) [Printed book page 1053-b] Satī, f. (fem. of sat), a virtuous wife (especially applied in later use to the Suttee or faithful wife who burns herself with her husband's corpse); a female ascetic; N. of the goddess Durgā or Umā (some- times described as Truth personified or as daughter of Dakṣa and wife of Bhava [Śiva], and sometimes represented as putting an end to herself by Yoga, or at a later period destroying herself on the funeral pyre of her husband; also represented as one of the wives of Aṅgiras); N. of the mother of Nāgeśa; a fragrant earth (commonly called Surāt earth); a species of the Prati-ṣṭhā metre. —Satī-tā, f. or satī-tva, am, n. virtuousness, purity, chastity, fidelity (especially as evinced by ascending the husband's funeral pile). —Satī-deha-tyāga, as, m. ‘Satī's aban- donment of the body,’ N. of the forty-third chapter of the Gaṇeśa-khaṇḍa of the Brahma-vaivarta-Purāṇa. —Satī-putra, as, m. the son of a virtuous woman. —Satīśvara-liṅga (°tī-īś°), am, n., N. of a Liṅga. —Satī-saras, as, n., N. of a lake in Kaśmīra. [ID=48848]
of the goddess Durgā or Umā (sometimes described as Truth personified or as a daughter of Dakṣa 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), Pur.; Kum. [ID=229699]
सती (satī) [Printed book page 1083-c]3N. of the goddess Durgā; Kumārasambhava (Bombay) 1. 21. [ID=29046]
— Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary
A daughter of Daksha and wife of Shiva.
सती (satī) [Printed book page 3-507] Satī (I) — (Lalitā) a daughter of Dakṣa, and wife of Bhava or Śiva;1 see Pārvatī; expressed a desire to attend her Page3-508+ 33 father's sacrifice to which Śiva was not invited. Permitted to go, she went home but was not welcomed by her father. Seeing the insult offered to her husband who was denied the share due to him, she cast off her body by yoga. Born as daughter of Mena.2 Drank the saubhāgya which came in a blaze from Hari's chest3 became Umā, daughter of the King of the Himālayas and married Rudra (Bhava).4 [Footnote: 1) Bhā III. 14. 35 Vā. 1. 70: Vi. I. 7. 25-6:]
[Footnote: 2) Bhā. IV. 1. 65-66: 2. 1-3: 3. 5-25; 4 (whole): 7. 58 and 62: M. 13. 14-16: Vā. 10. 27: 30. 41-75:]
सती (satī) [Printed book page 1083-c]4 A kind of fragrant earth. [ID=29046]
— Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary
Noun: Entity, Existence, Essence (Metaphysical)
2 definitions2
1. Entity or existence. 2. The Universal Spirit, Brahma.
सत् (sat)n. that which really is, entity or existence, essence, the true being or really existent (in the Vedānta, ‘the self-existent or Universal Spirit, Brahma’), RV. &c. &c. [ID=229500]
(H2) [Printed book page 1135,1] 1.सती (satī)f. (fem. of सत् (sat); for 2. See p. 1138, col. 2) her ladyship, your ladyship (= भवती (bhavatī), sometimes = ‘you’), MBh. [ID=229692]
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Definitions on this page come from 6 works:
Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872), Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), The Purana Index, Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.
