Sati
Hindu · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
In the Shiva Purana, Sati is born to Daksha and Vīriṇī, also called Asiknī. The later Parvati birth account identifies its goddess as the one who previously cast off her body.
Parentage
Recorded default; alternative parentage accounts are listed separately below.
- parent: Daksha
Parentage accounts
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- Shiva Purana 2.2.14.12–16, 27, 42–54, birth of Sati
deity by descent in this account.
- parent: DakshaShiva Purana 2.2.14.12–16, 27, 42–54, birth of Sati (primary)
- parent: Vīriṇī (Dakṣa’s wife)Shiva Purana 2.2.14.12–16, 27, 42–54, birth of Sati (primary)
Relations
- consort of: ShivaNon-symmetric, so nothing is written onto the pre-existing Shiva record, which the corpus holds with no spouse edge at all.Reference treatment of Sati as Shiva's wife, uninvited to her father's sacrifice. (secondary)
- humiliated by: DakshaIn-batch.Reference treatment of Daksha openly disrespecting Shiva in front of Sati at the sacrifice. (secondary)
- reincarnated as: ParvatiShiva Purana 2.3.6.1–17, birth of Parvati (primary)
Sources
- Sati is Daksha's daughter and Shiva's wife, who immolates herself in the fire of her father's sacrifice after he humiliates her husband.: Reference treatments of Sati and of the Daksha yajna. (secondary)
- In the Shiva Purana, Sati is born to Daksha and Vīriṇī, also called Asiknī. The later Parvati birth account identifies its goddess as the one who previously cast off her body.: Shiva Purana 2.2.14.12–16, 27, 42–54, birth of Sati (primary); Shiva Purana 2.3.6.1–17, birth of Parvati (primary)