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  2. Sati (Hindu goddess) - Wikipedia

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    The narrative of Sati's self immolation appears in the Puranas, Tantra literature, and in Kalidasa's lyrical Kumarasambhava. [31] According to the most popular narrative, Daksha organized a yajna (sacrifice) to which all the deities, except Sati and Shiva, were invited. Wanting to visit her relatives, Sati sought to rationalize this omission ...

  3. Sati (practice) - Wikipedia

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    The word sati, therefore, originally referred to the woman, rather than the rite. Variants are: Sativrata, an uncommon and seldom used term, [11] denotes the woman who makes a vow , to protect her husband while he is alive and then die with her husband. Satimata denotes a venerated widow who committed sati. [12]

  4. Superstition in India - Wikipedia

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    Sati is the act or custom of a Hindu widow burning herself or being burned to death on the funeral pyre of her husband. [15] After watching the Sati of his own sister-in-law, Ram Mohan Roy began campaigning for abolition of the practice in 1811. The practice of Sati was abolished by Governor General Lord William Bentinck in British India in ...

  5. Sati (Buddhism) - Wikipedia

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    I believe it is this aspect of sati that provides the connection between its two primary canonical meanings: as memory and as lucid awareness of present happenings.… In the Pāli suttas, sati has still other roles in relation to meditation but these reinforce its characterization in terms of lucid awareness and vivid presentation. [7]

  6. Daksha yajna - Wikipedia

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    Sati confronts Daksha. Dakṣayajña [note 1] [1] [2] is an important event in Hindu mythology that is narrated in various Hindu scriptures. It refers to a yajna (ritual-sacrifice) organised by Daksha, where his daughter, Sati, immolates herself. The wrath of the god Shiva, Sati's husband

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    Singapore will soon have its fourth-ever prime minister since independence, as the country's current leader, Lee Hsien Loong, signaled when he will end his nearly 20-year tenure.

  9. Sati - Wikipedia

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    Sati (Hindu goddess), Shiva's first wife, and after her death, reincarnated as Shiva's next wife, Parvati; Sati (Buddhism), awareness or skillful attentiveness in Buddhism; Sati (practice), historical Hindu practice of a widow immolating herself after her husband's death, usually on her husband's funeral pyre; Satis (goddess) or Sati, an ...