gatī

feminine

1. going, going away, (opp. āgati coming) (both gati & āgati usually in pregnant sense of No. (2) See āgati); direction, course, career. Freq of the two careers of a Mahāpurisa (viz. either a Cakkavatti or a Buddha) DN.ii.16 = Snp.p.106; Snp.1001, or of a gihī arahattaṃ patto Mil.264, with ref. to the distinction of the child Gotama Ja.i.56
   ■ phassâyatanānaṃ gati (course or direction) AN.ii.161; jagato gati (id. AN.ii.15, AN.ii.17; sakuntānaṃ g. the course, flight of birds Dhp.92 = Thag.92
   ■ Opp. āgati Pv.ii.9#22
   ■ tassā gatiṃ jānāti “he knows her going away, i.e. where she has gone” Pv-a.6.
2. going away, passing on (= cuti opp. upapatti coming into another existence); course esp after death, destiny, as regards another (future existence AN.i.112; DN.ii.91; MN.i.388 (tassa kā gati ko abhisamparāyo? what is his rebirth and what his destiny?); in combination āgati vā gati vā (= cutûpapatti) rebirth & death MN.i.328, MN.i.334. In defⁿ of saṃsāra explained as gati bhavâbhava cuti upapatti = one existence after the other Cnd.664; as gati upapatti paṭisandhi Nd ii.on dhātu (also as puna-gati rebirth)
   ■ The Arahant as being beyond Saṃsāra is also beyond gati yassa gatiṃ na jānanti devā gandhabba-mānusā Dhp.420 = Snp.644; yesaṃ gati n’ atthi Snp.499; and Nibbāna coincides with release from the gatis: gativippamokkhaṃ parinibbānaṃ Snp-a.368
   ■ attā hi attano gati “everybody is (the maker of) his own future life Dhp.380; esā maccharino gati “this is the fate of the selfish” Pv.iii.1#14; sabbagatī te ijjhantu “all fate be a success to you” Ja.v.393; gato so tassa yā gati “he has gone where he had to go (after death)” Pv.i.12#2.
3. behaviour, state or condition of life, sphere of existence element, especially characterized as sugati duggati, a happy or an unhappy existence. gati migānaṃ pavanaṃ, ākāso pakkhīnaṃ gati, vibhavo gati dhammānaṃ nibbānaṃ arahato gati: the wood is the sphere of the beasts, the air of the birds, decay is the state of (all) things, Nibbāna the sphere of the Arahant Vin.v.149 = Snp-a.346; apuññalābho ca gatī ca pāpikā Dhp.310; duggati Ja.i.28; avijjāy’ eva gati the quality of ignorance Snp.729; paramāya gatiyā samannāgato of perfect behaviour MN.i.82; see also defⁿ at Vism.237.
4. one of the five realms of existence of sentient beings (= loka), divided into the two categories of sugati (= Sagga, realm of bliss) & duggati (= Yamaloka apāya, realm of misery). These gatis are given in the foll. order:
   1. niraya purgatory,
   2. tiracchānayoni the brute creation,
   3. pittivisaya the ghost world
   4. manussā (m-loka) human beings,
   5. devā gods
   MN.i.73; DN.iii.234; AN.iv.459; Cnd.550; cp. SN.v.474–SN.v.477,

   Attestations

   • gatī Dhammapada 310 (dhp310:1)
   • gati Dhammapada 380 (dhp380:3)
   • gatiṁ Dhammapada 420 (dhp420:1)
   • gati Dhammapada 92 (dhp92:6)
   • Gatiṁ Sutta Nipata 2.14 (snp2.14:3.2)
   • gati Sutta Nipata 3.12 (snp3.12:12.4)

   6 of 52 attestations shown.