gatiH f. [ gam-BAve ktin ] 1 Motion, going, moving, gait; gatirvigalitA Pt. 4. 78 ; aBinnagatayaH Ś. 1. 14 ; ( na ) BiMdaMti maMdAM gatimaSvamuKyaH Ku. 1. 11 do not mend their slow gait (do not mend their pace); so gaganagatiH Pt. 1 ; laGugatiH Me. 16 , 10 , 46 ; U. 6. 23. 2 Access, entrance; maRO vajrasamutkIrRe sUtrasyevAsti me gatiH R. 1. 4. 3 Scope, room; astragatiH Ku. 3. 19 ; manoraTAnAmagatirna vidyate Ku. 5. 64 ; nAstyagatirmanoraTAnAM V. 2. 4 Turn, course; dEvagatirhicitrA , Mu. 7. 16. 5 Going to, reaching, obtaining; vEkuMWIyA gatiH Pt. 1. obtaining Heaven. 6 Fate, issue; BarturgatirgaMtavyA Dk. 103. 7 State, condition; dAnaM Bogo nASastisro gatayo BavaMti vittasya Bh. 2. 43 ; Pt. 1. 106. 8 Position, station, situation, mode of existence; parArDyagateH pituH R. 8. 27 ; kusumastabakasyeva dve gatI sto manasvinAM Bh. 2. 104 ; Pt. 1. 41 , 420. 9 A means, expedient, course, alternative; anupekzaRe dvayI gatiH Mu. 3 ; kA gatiH what help is there, can't help (often used in dramas); Pt. 1. 319 ; anyA gatirnAsti K. 158. 10 Recourse, shelter, refuge, asylum, resort; vidyamAnA gatiryezAM Pt. 1. 320 , 322 ; Asayat salile pfTvIM yaH sa me SrIharirgatiH Sk. 11 Source, origin, acquisition; Bg. 2. 43 ; Ms. 1. 50. 12 A way, path. 13 A march, procession. 14 An event, issue, result. 15 The course of events, fate, fortune. 16 Course of asterisms. 17 The diurnal motion of a planet in its orbit. 18 A running wound or sore, fistula. 19 Knowing; Ki. 14. 15 ; knowledge, wisdom. 20 Transmigration, metempsychosis; Ms. 6. 73 , 12. 3 , 23 , 40-45 . 21 A stage or period of life (as SESava, yOvana, vArDaka ). 22 (In gram. ) A term for prepositions and some other adverbial prefixes (such as alaM, tiras &c.) when immediately connected with the tenses of a verb or verbal derivatives. 23 Position of a child at birth. Comp. — anusaraH following the course of another. — Una a. impassable, desert. — BaMgaH stoppage. — hIna a. without ( pb ) refuge, helpless, forlorn.