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.
N. of the goddess दुर्गा or उमा (sometimes described as Truth personified or as a daughter of दक्ष and wife of भव [ शिव], and sometimes represented as putting an end to herself by योग, or at a later period burning herself on the funeral pyre of her husband).