As a deity name
Name 406 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
Name 606 of the Narasimha Sahasranāma — Brahmanda Purana / Narasimha Purana, as taught by Sages to Assembly of Devotees
Name 169 of the Shiva Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Sage Tandi to Sage Upamanyu
Name 862 of the Shiva Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Sage Tandi to Sage Upamanyu
As a Hindi name
गति
अटपटी, चटपट लखी न जाय । जो मन की खटपट मिटै, अघट भए ठहराय । —कबीर (शब्द॰) । (ख) जहँ तहँ मुनि- वर निज मर्यादा थापी अघट अपार—सूर॰ (शब्द॰) · पूरा । पूर्ण — Śabdasāgara
गति
सरण · अधिष्ठान · लटकी हूई वस्तु वा पदार्थ — Śabdasāgara
गति · gati · s.f.
Going, moving; motion; movement; pace — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 896
गति · gati · s.f.
= gat, q.v — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 896
गति · feminine
motion; speed; plight
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi गति — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit गति (gati).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
gati f. going, moving, gait, deportment, motion in general, RV. v, 64, 3; VS.; TS. &c.
manner or power of going
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
going, moving, gait, deportment, motion in general, &c.
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (3)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "gati" is the vocative of "gatī" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
gati 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.
gatī f. (metrically) for ˚ti, going, R. vii, 31, 41.
Alternative readings
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