satī́ f. (fem. of sat; for 2. See p. 1138, col. 2) her ladyship, your ladyship (= bhavatī, sometimes = ‘you’), [MBh.]
a good and virtuous or faithful wife (esp. applied in later use to the faithful wife [popularly called Suttee] who burns herself with her husband's corpse, [W.]; compar. satī-tarā, sati-t° or sat-t°), [Kāv.]; [VarBṛS.]; [Kathās.] &c.
a wife, female (of an animal), [BhP.]
a female ascetic, [MW.]
a fragrant earth, [L.]
two kinds of metre, [Col.]
N. of the wife of Viśvāmitra, [RV.]
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.]
of one of the wives of Aṅgiras, [BhP.]
of various women of modern times (also -devī), [Cat.]