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Jatu
lac. As medicine Vin.i.201 -maṭṭhaka a decking with lac. used by women to prevent conception Vin.iv.261 ; consisting of either jatu kaṭṭha (wood), piṭṭha (flour), or mattikā (clay). Sk. jatu; cp. Lat. bitumen pitch; Ags. cwidu. resin, Ohg. quiti glue
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1. Jَتُ
lac. As medicine Vin.i.201 -maṭṭhaka a decking with lac. used by women to prevent conception Vin.iv.261; consisting of either jatu kaṭṭha (wood), piṭṭha (flour), or mattikā (clay).
Sk. jatu; cp. Lat. bitumen pitch; Ags. cwidu. resin, Ohg. quiti glue
2. Jātu
(indeel.) surely, undoubtedly (ekaṃsavacanaṃ Snp-a.348) usually in negative (& interrog. sentences as na jātu, not at all, never (cp. also sādhu) mā jātu Vin.ii.203; Snp.152, Snp.348 (no ce hi jātu); Ja.i.293 Ja.i.374; Ja.iv.261; Ja.v.503. Na jātucca at Ja.vi.60 is apparently for na jātu ca.
Vedic jātu, particle of affirmation. Perhaps for jānātu one would know, cp. Gr. ο ̓ϊμαι, Lat. credo P. maññe. But BR. and Fausböll make it a contraction of jāyatu “it might happen.” Neither of these derivations is satisfactory
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