Definition of "sati" []

• Variant of suttee. (noun)

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• "He tried to outlaw suttee, aka sati, and was met with the “But it is tradition!” argument — even though it was not as widespread as usually assumed today."
• "The Hindu practice known as sati - which involves tossing a living widow on the crematory fires of her dead husband - is patently contradictory to these words from the sacred Mahabharata: "This is the sum of duty: do not do to others what would cause pain if done to you.""
• "The Anglo-Indian who has discovered that the suttee he read of as a boy is called sati by those who know it best is not content to keep so important a piece of knowledge to himself; he must have the rest of us call it sati, like the Hindoos ah, no – Hindus &himself; at any rate, he will give us the chance of mending our ignorant ways by printing nothing but sati &forcing us to guess what word known to us it may stand for."