gáti 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]
procession, march, passage, procedure, progress, movement (e.g. astra-g°, the going or flying of missile weapons, [R. v]; parāṃ gatiṃ-√ gam, ‘to go the last way’, to die; daiva-g°, the course of fate, [R. vi]; [Megh. 93]; kāvyasya g°, 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.]
path, way, course (e.g. anyatarāṃ gatiṃ-√ gam, ‘to go either way’, to recover or die, [ĀśvŚr.]), [R.]; [Bhag.] &c.
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.]
(in gram.) a term for prepositions and some other adverbial prefixes (such as alam &c.) when immediately connected with the tenses of a verb or with verbal derivatives (cf. karmapravacanīya), [Pāṇ. i, 4, 60 ff.]; [vi, 2, 49 ff.] and [139]; [viii, 1, 70 f.]
a kind of rhetorical figure, [Sarasv. ii, 2]
a particular high number, [Buddh.]
‘Motion’ (personified as a daughter of Kardama and wife of Pulaha), [BhP. iv, 1];
gáti m. N. of a son of Anala, [Hariv. i, 3, 43.]