Sati

In the Puranic/Daksha‑sacrifice narrative recorded in the supplied material, Sati is daughter of Daksha and wife of Śiva. When Daksha, as leader among the Prajāpatis, held a great sacrifice and affronted Śiva by refusing respect, Daksha's offense and harsh words against Śiva led Sati to protest the insult to her husband. In the cited account this conflict culminates with Sati giving up her life (self‑immolation) in response to the dishonor; the episode is narrated as explanatory of divine relationships and as exemplifying her fidelity. Later tradition, reflected in the sources, identifies Sati with Dakshayani and treats her as the earlier form of the goddess who subsequently appears as Parvati, continuing the conjugal relationship with Śiva in later stories.

The provided sources do not supply a fixed, detailed iconographic description of Sati. She is primarily attested by her relationships and cultic roles: daughter of Daksha, wife of Śiva, and worshipped as an aspect of the Divine Mother. Sources therefore describe her by function and identity (Dakshayani, Sati Mata) and by association with maternal and marital attributes (goddess of marital felicity and longevity) rather than by bodily or costume details.

The emphasis in the sources is on Sati's moral and cultic role rather than catalogued supernatural feats. Her defining action in the Daksha‑sacrifice story is her voluntary death in protest at Daksha's insult to Śiva; that act and its consequences (Śiva's grief and anger are central in the wider narrative context cited) constitute her primary mythic efficacy. She is venerated for influence over marital felicity and longevity, and later tradition identifies her with the goddess who resumes Śiva's consort role as Parvati/Dakshayani.