The corpus record — Sanskrit

ratiṃ

) f. Gabe, Opfergabe, Gunst; gebende Gottheit, gute Genie, ‘Huldin

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Where it lives

Brhadaranyaka Upanisad 4 · 0.53/10k
Chandogya Upanisad 1 · 0.21/10k

What it meant — Monier-Williams

1. räti-

räti- (°di-‘) f. Gabe, Opfergabe, Gunst; gebende Gottheit, gute Genie, ‘Huldin’ (s. RV 1,29,4 drätayo ... rätdyah “Unholdinnen... Huldinnen’ GeRV 131; vgl, Renou, EVP 12 [1964] 122) [RV +J, räti-säc- von Gaben begleitet, m. Plur. eine Gruppe spendender Genien (RV +), rätin- aus Opfergaben bestehend. Beiwort des Opferlöffels (RV; Renou, EVP 16 [1967]45); ararı f. Feindseligkeit, Mißgunst, Unhold(in) [vgl. o.], u.a.. … — [Mayrhofer, s.v. räti-, p. 474]

2. رَتِ

pleasure, enjoyment, delight in, fondness for ( loc. or comp. ; ratim with √ āp, labh, upalabh, adhigam, vidkṛ or bandh and loc. , ‘to find pleasure in’), Up. ; Mn. ; MBh. &c.

3. رَتِ

the pleasure of love, sexual passion or union, amorous enjoyment (often personified as one of the two wives of Kāma-deva , together with Prīti q.v. ), Mn. ; MBh. &c.

4. rāti

rāti mfn. ready or willing to give, generous, favourable, gracious, RV. ; AV. ; VS. ; Br.

In the wild

ratiṃ Brhadaranyaka Upanisad brhup_1,4.4
ratiṃ Brhadaranyaka Upanisad brhup_1,4.4
rātiḥ Brhadaranyaka Upanisad brhup_4,1.1
ratiḥ Brhadaranyaka Upanisad brhup_4,3.23
ratiṃ Chandogya Upanisad chup_3,17.3

Where it came from

Mayrhofer, Etymologisches Worterbuch des Altindoarischen (EWAia) Treated in Mayrhofer, Etymologisches Worterbuch des Altindoarischen (EWAia) s.v. räti (vol. 2, scan pp. 474-475; entry #3654).

Sanskrit corpus record built from GRETIL sources (citations and statistics; GRETIL running text is not redistributable). Passage text, where shown, from the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (CC BY 4.0). Dictionary senses from Monier-Williams (1899, public domain), via the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries.