yáthā ind. (in Veda also unaccented; fr. 3. ya, correlative of táthā) in which manner or way, according as, as, like (also with cid, ha, ha vai, iva, ivāṅga, iva ha, eva, and followed by correl. tathā, tathā tathā, tadvat, evam, Ved. also evá), [RV.] &c. &c. (yathaitat or yathaivaitat, ‘as for that’ ; yathā-tathā or — tena satyena, ‘as surely as’ — ‘so truly’)
as, for instance, namely (also tad yathā, ‘as here follows’), [Up.]; [GṛŚrS.]; [Nir.]
as it is or was (elliptically), [BhP.]
that, so that, in order that (with Pot. or Subj., later also with fut. pres., impf. and aor.; in earlier language is often placed after the first word of a sentence; sometimes with ellipsis of syāt and bhavet), [RV.] &c. &c.
that (esp. after verbs of ‘knowing’, ‘believing’, ‘hearing’, ‘doubting’ &c.; either with or without iti at the end of the sentence), [Up.]; [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
as soon as, [Megh.]
as, because, since ( — tathā, ‘as’ — ‘therefore’), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
as if (with Pot.), [Daś.]; [Śak.]; how (= quam, expressing ‘admiration’), [Pāṇ. viii, 1, 37], Sch.
according to what is right, properly, correctly (= yathāvat), [BhP.] (yáthā yathā — táthā tathā or evaíva, ‘in whatever manner’, — ‘in that manner’, ‘according as’ or ‘in proportion as’, — ‘so’, ‘by how much the more’ — ‘by so much’, ‘the more’ — ‘the more’; yathā tathā, ‘in whatever manner’, ‘in every way’, ‘anyhow’; with na, ‘in no way’, ‘really not’; yathā kathaṃcit, ‘in any way’, ‘somehow or other’; yathaiva, ‘just as’; tad yathāpināma, ‘just as if’).
yathāṃśa-tas &c. See p. 841, cols. 2 and 3 &c.