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.]