Sati

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Sati

WP, The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, #9: Right View, Bhikkhu Nanamoli and Bhikkhu Bodhi, trans, pp134

PTS: Majjhima Nikaya III: #118 (Middle Length Sayings III #118: Mindfulness When Breathing, Horner trans., pp127)

WP: The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, #118: Mindfulness of Breathing., Nanamoli/Bodhi, trans., pp946

PTS, Dialogues of the Buddha II: #22: Mahasatipatthana Sutta -- Setting-Up of Mindfulness, Rhys Davids, trans, pp336

PTS: The Book of the Gradual Sayings II: The Book of the Fours, II: Deportment iv: Restraint, Woodward, trans, pp16

Puremind, M. Punnaji, Awakening Meditation, 1-13, 1-15, 3-12, 4-3, 4-6, 6-8, 7-6,7, 7-11, 8-52, 8-60, 8-61, 8-86

Wisdom Publicatiions, The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, Bhikkhu Nanamoli and Bhikkhu Bodhi, #10: The Foundations of Mindfulness, pp 145

Wisdom Publications, The Long Discourses of the Buddha, Maurice Walshe, #22: The Greater Discourse on the Foundations of Mindfulness, pp335

Pali Text Society, Middle Length Sayings I, #10: Discourse on the Applications of Mindfulness, Horner, pp70

Pali	MO	Hare	Horner	Punnaji	Bodhi	Nanamoli	Rhys Davids	(Mrs)Rhys Davids	Thanissaro	Walshe	Woodward
sati	Mental Satisfaction, Memory, Mind	mindfulness	mindfulness	Attentiveness	mindfulness	mindfulness	mindfulness	mindfulness	mindfulness	Mindfulness	Mindfulness

**Pali Text Society, Pali English Dictionary:**
Sati: (f.) [Vedic sm.rti: Latin: memor, memoria=memory; Gr. care, witness, martyr; Gothic. maurnan=English: mourn to care, etc] memory, recognition, consciousness, D I.180; II.292; Miln 77-80; intentness of mind, wakefulness of mind, mindfulness, alertness, lucidity of mind, self-possession, conscience, self-consciousness D I.19; III.31, 49, 213, 230, 270 sq.; A I.95; Dhs 14; Nd1 7; Tikp 61; VbhA 91; DhsA 121; Miln 37; upaÂÂhit¤ sati presence of mind D III.252, 282, 287; S II.231; A II.6, 218; III.199; IV.232; It 120; parimukha¸ sati¸ upaÂÂh¤petu¸ to surround oneself with watchfulness of mind M III.89; Vin I.24, sati¸ paccupaÂÂh¤petu¸ to preserve self--possession J I.112; IV.215; k¤yagat¤ sati intentness of mind on the body, realization of the impermanency of all things M III.89; A I.43; S I.188; Miln 248; 336; muÂÂhasati forgetful, careless D III.252, 282; mara¼asati mindfulness as to death A IV.317 sq.; J IV.216; SnA 54; PvA 61, 66. asati not thinking of, forgetfulness DhsA 241; instr. asatiy¤ through forgetfulness, without thinking of it, not intentionally Vin II.2892. sati (samm¤^-) is one of the constituents of the 8--fold Ariyan Path (e g. A III.141 sq.; VbhA 120): see magga 2. --¢dhipateyya (sat^-) dominant mindfulness A II.243 sq.; It 40. --indriya the sense, faculty, of mindfulness A II.149; Dhs 14. --upp¤da arising, production of recollection J I.98; A II.185; M I.124. --ullapak¤yika, a class of devas S I.16 sq. --paÂÂh¤na [BSk. sm.rty'upasth¤na Divy 126, 182, 208] intent contemplation and mindfulness, earnest thought, application of mindfulness; there are four satipaÂÂh¤nas, referring to the body, the sensations, the mind, and phenomena respectively, D II.83, 290 sq.; III.101 sq., 127, 221; M I.56, 339; II.11 etc.; A II.218; III.12; IV.125 sq., 457 sq.; V.175; S III.96, 153; V.9, 166; Dhs 358; Kvu 155 (cp. Kvu. trsln 104 sq.); Nd1 14, 45, 325, 340; Vism 3; VbhA 57, 214 sq., 417. -- See on term e. g. Cpd. 179; and in greater detail Dial. II.322 sq. --vinaya disciplinary proceeding under appeal to the accused monk's own conscience Vin I.325; II.79 etc.; M II.247; A I.99. --vepullappatta having attained a clear conscience Vin II.79. --sa¸vara restraint in mindfulness Vism 7; DhsA 351; SnA 8. --sampaja¾¾a mindfulness and self-possession D I.70; A II.210; DA I.183 sq. --sambojjhanga (e. g. S V.90) see (sam)bojjhanga. --sammosa loss of mindfulness or memory, lack of concentration or attention D I.19; Vin II.114; DA I.113; Pug 32; Vism 63; Miln 266.
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This is from the Rhys Davids Introduction to their translation of the Satipatthana Sutta, some interpretations by that generation of translators: