sát mf(satI/)n. (pr. p. of √ 1. as) being, existing, occurring, happening, being present (sato me, ‘when I was present’; often connected with other participles or with an adverb, e.g. nāmni kṛte sati, ‘when the name has been given’; tathā sati, ‘if it be so’; also ibc., where sometimes = ‘possessed of’, cf. sat-kalpavṛkṣa), [RV.] &c. &c.
abiding in (loc.), [MBh.]
belonging to (gen.), [ŚBr.]
living, [MuṇḍUp.]
lasting, enduring, [Kāv.]; [RV.] &c. &c.
real, actual, as any one or anything ought to be, true, good, right (tan na sat, ‘that is not right’), beautiful, wise, venerable, honest (often in comp. See below), [RV.] &c. &c.
sát m. a being, (pl.) beings, creatures, [RV.] &c.
a good or wise man, a sage, [MBh.]; [R.]
good or honest or wise or respectable people, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.
n. that which really is, entity or existence, essence, the true being or really existent (in the Vedānta, ‘the self-existent or Universal Spirit, Brahma’), [RV.] &c. &c.
that which is good or real or true, good, advantage, reality, truth, [ib.]
water, [Naigh. i, 12]
(in gram.) the terminations of the present participle, [Pāṇ. iii, 2, 127] &c.
sát ind. (cf. sat-√ kṛ &c.) well, right, fitly.
[cf. Gk. ὥν, ἐών for ἐσων; Lat. sens in ab-sens, præ-sens; sons, ‘guilty’, orig. ‘the real doer’; Lith. są̄s, ė́sąs; Slav. sy, sąšta.]
satī́ f. (fem. of sat; for 2. See p. 1138, col. 2) her ladyship, your ladyship (= bhavatī, sometimes = ‘you’), [MBh.]
a good and virtuous or faithful wife (esp. applied in later use to the faithful wife [popularly called Suttee] who burns herself with her husband's corpse, [W.]; compar. satī-tarā, sati-t° or sat-t°), [Kāv.]; [VarBṛS.]; [Kathās.] &c.
a wife, female (of an animal), [BhP.]
a female ascetic, [MW.]
a fragrant earth, [L.]
two kinds of metre, [Col.]
N. of the wife of Viśvāmitra, [RV.]
of the goddess Durgā or Umā (sometimes described as Truth personified or as a daughter of Dakṣa and wife of Bhava [Śiva], and sometimes represented as putting an end to herself by Yoga, or at a later period burning herself on the funeral pyre of her husband), [Pur.]; [Kum.]
of one of the wives of Aṅgiras, [BhP.]
of various women of modern times (also -devī), [Cat.]
sat—√ kṛ P. Ā. -karoti, -kurute &c., to set right, put in order, arrange, prepare, adorn, garnish, [Mn.]; [MBh.]; [R.] &c.; to treat well or with respect, honour, treat or receive hospitably, [MBh.]; [R.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to pay the last honours to (acc.), cremate, [R.] : Caus. -kārayati, to cause to be treated with respect or reverence, show reverence, pay respect, [MW.]; to cause to pay the last honours, [MBh.]
satyá m. the uppermost of the seven Lokas or worlds (the abode of Brahmā and heaven of truth; see loka), [L.]
N. of the ninth Kalpa (q.v.), [Pur.]
the Aśvattha tree, [L.]
N. of Viṣṇu, [L.]
of Rāma-candra, [L.]
of a supernatural being, [Gaut.]; [VarBṛS.]; [Hcat.]
of a deity presiding over the Nāndī-mukha Śrāddha, [L.]
of one of the Viśve Devāḥ, [Cat.]
of a Vyāsa, [Cat.]
of a son of Havir-dhāna, [BhP.]
of a son of Vitatya, [MBh.]
of one of the 7 Ṛṣis in various Manvantaras, [Hariv.]; [Pur.]
(with ācārya) N. of an astronomer (author of the Horā-śāstra), [VarBṛS.]
pl. N. of a class of gods in various Manvantaras, [Hariv.]; [Pur.]
satyá (am), n. truth, reality (satyena, ‘truly’, ‘certainly’, ‘really’; kásmāt sátyāt, ‘for what reason, how is it that?’ téna satyéna, ‘for that reason, so truly’; yathā-tena [or evaṃ] satyena, ‘as-so truly’; with Buddhists truth is of two kinds, viz. saṃvṛti- and paramārtha-satyam, ‘truth by general consent’ and ‘self-evident truth’, [Dharmas. 95]; for the four fundamental truths of Buddhists See [MWB. 43]; [56]), [RV.] &c. &c.
speaking the truth, sincerity, veracity, [KenUp.]; [Mn.]; [R.] &c.
a solemn asseveration, vow, promise, oath (satyaṃ cikīrṣamāṇa, ‘wishing to fulfil one's promise or keep one's word’), [AV.] &c. &c.
demonstrated conclusion, dogma, [W.]
the quality of goodness or purity or knowledge, [MW.]
the first of the four Yugas or ages (= 1. -kṛtá, q.v.), [L.]
a partic. mythical weapon, [R.]
the uppermost of the 7 Lokas (see under m.), [Vedāntas.]; [BhP.]
one of the 7 Vyāhṛtis, [L.]
partic. Satya-formula, [ĀśvŚr.]
= udaka, water, [Naigh. i, 12]
(also with prajāpateḥ) N. of Sāmans, [ĀrṣBr.]; [ŚrS.]
sattrá n. ‘session’, a great Soma sacrifice (lasting accord. to some, from 13 to 100 days and performed by many officiating Brāhmans; also applied to any oblation or meritorious work equivalent to the performance of a Sattra; sattrásyárddhiḥ N. of a Sāman, [ĀrṣBr.]), [RV.] &c. &c.
a house, asylum, hospital, [Rājat.]; [Kathās.]
an assumed form or disguise, illusive semblance, [MBh.]; [Daś.]
vital breath, life, consciousness, strength of character, strength, firmness, energy, resolution, courage, self-command, good sense, wisdom, magnanimity, [MBh.]; [R.] &c.
the quality of purity or goodness (regarded in the Sāṃkhya phil. as the highest of the three Guṇas [q.v.] or constituents of Prakṛti because it renders a person true, honest, wise &c., and a thing pure, clean &c.), [MaitrUp.]; [Mn.]; [Yājñ.] &c., [MBh.]; [R.]
material or elementary substance, entity, matter, a thing, [Nir.]; [Prāt.]
a substantive, noun, [W.]
sat-tvá m. n. a living or sentient being, creature, animal, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.
sat-tvá m. embryo, fetus, rudiment of life (see -lakṣaṇā)
a ghost, demon, goblin, monster, [R.]; [VarBṛS.]; [Kathās.]