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सािवऽी sāvitrī, s.f. A beam or ray of light; a cluster of solar rays; name of a celebrated verse of the Rig-veda (regarded as the most sacred verse of the Veda, and called Sāvitrīas addressed to the sun); the ceremony of investiture with the sacred thread; the sacrificial or sacred thread;—an epithet of Umā(wife of Śiva); and of the wife of Satyavān.