As a deity name
Name 848 of the Vishnu Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Bhishma to Yudhishthira on his deathbed
As a Hindi name
कथित · adj
कहा हुआ · अपुष्ट कथन — Śabdasāgara
कथित · noun · masculine
मृदंग के बारह प्रबंधों में से एक प्रबंध — Śabdasāgara
कथित · kathit · part.
(f. -ā), Spoken, said, uttered, declared, told, related ( = kahā) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 813
कथित
said, spoken; narrated
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi कथित — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit कथित (kathita).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
kathita mfn. told, related, reckoned, Mn. vii, 157
kathita n. conversation, discourse, MBh.; Śak.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
told, related, reckoned
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Dictionary citations
kathita mfn. told, related, reckoned, Mn. vii, 157
kathita n. conversation, discourse, MBh.; Śak.
narration, tale, Ragh. xi, 10.
kathita p. p. 1 Told, described, narrated. 2 Expressed. — taḥ The supreme being. — taṃ A conversation, discourse; pūrvavṛttakathitaiḥ purāvidaḥ R. 11. 10. Comp. — padaṃ, -padatā tautology, repetition, considered as a fault of composition relating to a sentence, where a word is used without any specific purpose; see K. P. 7; and S. D. 575 ad loc.
kathita mfn. (-taḥ-tā-taṃ) Said, told, related. E. katha to tell, kta aff.
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