Savitri (सावित्री) is from the Vedic deity Savitr (the impeller, the sun). **The Mahabharata heroine** (Aranyaka Parva) **who, by following Yama (the god of death) on his journey carrying her dead husband Satyavan's soul, debated with him about righteousness for three days until Yama granted her three boons — the last of which she cleverly used to restore Satyavan to life**. **The archetype of devotional wifely strength in Indian tradition** — Vat Savitri Vrata is named for her.
**Also the title of Sri Aurobindo's 24,000-line epic *Savitri* — among the longest poems in English.**
Savitri reduces to seven — the number of outwitter of Yama.