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jāti

f. birth, production, [AitBr. ii, 39]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] (also °tī, [xiii f.]) &c.


re-birth, [R. i, 62, 17]; [Kāraṇḍ. xxiii, 193]


the form of existence (as man, animal, &c.) fixed by birth, [Mn. iv, 148 f.]; [Yogas. ii, 13]


(ifc.), [Kathās. xviii, 98]


position assigned by birth, rank, caste, family, race, lineage, [KātyŚr. xv]; [Mn.]; [Yājñ.] &c. (°tī, [MBh. xiv, 2549])


kind, genus (opposed to species), species (opposed to individual), class, [Lāṭy.]; [KātyŚr.]; [Pāṇ.] &c., (once °tī ifc. [MBh. vi, 456])


the generic properties (opposed to the specific ones), [Sarvad.]


natural disposition to, [Car. ii, 1]


the character of a species, genuine or true state of anything, [Yājñ. ii, 246]; [MBh. xii, 5334]


reduction of fractions to a common denominator


a self-confuting reply (founded merely on similarity or dissimilarity), [Nyāyad. v, 1 ff.]; [Sarvad. xi, 10] and [34]; [Prab.], Sch.


(in rhet.) a particular figure of speech, [Sarasv. ii, 1]


a class of metres, [R. i, 4, 6]; [Kāvyād. i, 11]


a manner of singing, [Hariv.]


a fire-place, [L.]


(= °tī) mace, nutmeg, [Suśr.]


Jasminum grandiflorum, [L.]


= °tī-phalā, [L.]


= kampilla, [L.] cf. antya-, eka-, dvi-;


[cf. Lat. gens; Lith. pri-gentis]