gata (5614)

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gata
Entry 5614, Page 208, Col. 2
(gata, gata)
gata¦, adj., ppp., (1) understood, grasped (hardly a Skt. usage; cf. however BR s.v. gam, ppp. gata, 1, l): gatam etad Divy 301.27, I have understood this (which you have said); etad api gatam 302.1, 5, 12; (2) exten- sions of the quasi-suffixal use of gata noted for Skt. by Whitney, Gr. 1273c; very close to the Skt. is perhaps Divy 29.21 ekasya gṛhagataṃ kṣetragataṃ ca, ekasyā- vārīgataṃ deśāntaragataṃ ca, to one went (in a division of property) what was in the house and in the field (? or possibly the house(s) and field(s)? as in dṛṣṭigata, rūpagata, see below), etc.; Śikṣ 246.16 (tatra katamo 'bdhātuḥ ?) yad idam asmin kāye 'dhyātmaṃ pratyātmam āpaḥ, abgataṃ; aptvaṃ snehaḥ (abgataṃ perhaps what is water), snehagataṃ snehatvaṃ…; on dṛṣṭi-gata and rūpagata, which seem hardly distinguishable in mg. from dṛṣṭi and rūpa, see s.vv. (the former is found in Pali, the latter in AMg.).