yathā

yathā ind. (in Veda also unaccented; fr. 3. ya, correlative of tathā) in which manner or way, according as, as, like (also with cid, ha, havai, iva, ivA Nga , ivaha, eva, and followed by correl. tathā, tathātathā, tadvat, evam, Ved. also eva), RV. &c. &c. ( yaTE tat or yaTE vE tat , ‘as for that’ ; yathātathā or yathā — tenasatyena, ‘as surely as’ — ‘so truly’)

that, so that, in order that (with Pot. or Subj. , later also with fut. pres. , impf. and aor. ; in earlier language yathā is often placed after the first word of a sentence; sometimes with ellipsis of syāt and bhavet), RV. &c. &c.

according to what is right, properly, correctly (= yathāvat), BhP. (yathāyathā — tathātathā or evE/ va , ‘in whatever manner’, — ‘in that manner’, ‘according as’ or ‘in proportion as’, — ‘so’, ‘by how much the more’ — ‘by so much’, ‘the more’ — ‘the more’; yathātathā, ‘in whatever manner’, ‘in every way’, ‘anyhow’; with na, ‘in no way’, ‘really not’; yathākathaṃcit, ‘in any way’, ‘somehow or other’; yaTE va , ‘just as’; tad yaTA pinAma , ‘just as if’).