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गति f. f. going, moving, gait, deportment, motion in general, [RV. v, 64, 3] ; [VS.] ; [TS.] &c. manner or power of going going away, [Yājñ. iii, 170] अस्त्र-ग्° procession, march, passage, procedure, progress, movement (e.g. , the going or flying of missile weapons, [R. v] ; परां गतिं-√ गम्, ‘to go the last way’, to die; दैव-ग्°, the course of fate, [R. vi] ; [Megh. 93] ; काव्यस्य ग्°, the progress or course of a poem, [R. i, 3, 2] ) arriving at, obtaining (with gen. loc. , or ifc. ), [ŚBr. ix] ; [MBh.] &c. acting accordingly, obeisance towards (loc. ), [Āp. i, 13 f.] अन्यतरां गतिं-√ गम् path, way, course (e.g. , ‘to go either way’, to recover or die, [ĀśvŚr.] ), [R.] ; [Bhag.] &c.
ROOTS: अन्यतरां गतिं √ गम् a certain division of the moon's path and the position of the planet in it (the diurnal motion of a planet in its orbit?), [VarBṛS.] issue, [Bhag. iv, 29] running wound or sore, [Suśr.] place of issue, origin, reason, [ChUp. i, 8, 4 f.] ; [Mn. i, 110] ; [R.] ; [Mudr.] possibility, expedient, means, [Yājñ. i, 345] ; [R. i] ; [Mālav.] &c. a means of success way or art, method of acting, stratagem, [R. iii, vi] refuge, resource, [Mn. viii, 84] ; [R.] ; [Kathās.] ; [Vet. iv, 20] cf. [RTL.] p.260 the position (of a child at birth), [Suśr.] state, condition, situation, proportion, mode of existence, [KaṭhUp. iii, 11] ; [Bhag.] ; [Pañcat.] &c. a happy issue happiness, [MBh. iii, 17398] the course of the soul through numerous forms of life, metempsychosis, condition of a person undergoing this migration, [Mn.] ; [Yājñ.] ; [MBh.] &c. manner, [ĀśvGṛ. i] Sch. the being understood or meant, [Pat.] अलम् (in gram.) a term for prepositions and some other adverbial prefixes (such as &c.) when immediately connected with the tenses of a verb or with verbal derivatives (cf. कर्मप्रवचनीय), [Pāṇ. 1-4, 60 ff.; 6-2, 49 ff. and 139; 8-1, 70 f.] a kind of rhetorical figure, [Sarasv. ii, 2] a particular high number, [Buddh.] ‘Motion’ (personified as a daughter of कर्दम and wife of पुलह), [BhP. i, v, 1] गति m. m.N. of a son of अनल, [Hariv. i, 3, 43.]
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