sati
satīThe practice of a widow's self-immolation on her husband's funeral pyre at his antyeshti, outlawed in Bengal in 1829 after a campaign led by Ram Mohan Roy.
Where this term appears
- The History of Sanatana Dharma: A Timeline History
Sanatana Dharma has no founder and no single date of birth. It is the cumulative tradition of the Indian subcontinent, built up over more than three thousand years,…
- The Reformers: How the Nineteenth Century Remade Hinduism History
Raja Ram Mohan Roy had spent more than a decade marshalling the Hindu scriptures themselves to argue that sati had never been commanded by them.
- Kamakhya: The Temple of the Goddess Temples
The goddess Sati, married to Shiva against her father Daksha's wishes, threw herself into the fire at Daksha's sacrifice after he insulted her husband.
- Pranayama: Working with the Breath Yoga
The Sanskrit runs tasmin sati shvasa-prashvasayor gati-vicchedah pranayamah .
- The Mahamrityunjaya Mantra Worship
…apamrityu , untimely death, or during the long, testing years of Sade Sati when Saturn presses on the birth-moon, or against the afflictions the tradition calls the eclipse-flaw and the serpent-flaw.
- The Navagraha: The Nine Planetary Powers Deities
People who cannot name a single verse of scripture know which planet rules the day they were born, which stone they have been told to wear, and what the seven and a half years of Sade Sati did to their family.
- What are the Shakti Peethas? Temples
A Shakti Peetha , "seat of Shakti ," meaning a seat of the Goddess, is a shrine that marks where a part of the body of the goddess Sati is said to have fallen.
- Who is Parvati? Deities
She was born once already, as Sati, daughter of Daksha, and married Shiva against her father's will.