The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

Gataka a messenger J i.86.
Gatatta
Gatatta 1.=Sk. gat -- !tman (see prec.). -- 2.=Sk. gatatva' the fact of having gone KhA 183.
Gati
Gati (f.) [fr. gacchati; cp. Gr. ba/sis, Lat. (in -- ) ventio, Goth. (ga -- ) qumps] 1. going, going away, (opp.
!gati coming) (both gati & !gati usually in pregnant sense of No. 2. See !gati); direction, course, career.
Freq. of the two careers of a Mah!purisa (viz. either a Cakkavatti or a Buddha) D ii.16=Sn p. 106; Sn 1001,
or of a gih" arahatta' patto Miln 264, with ref. to the distinction of the child Gotama J i.56. --
phassâyatan!na' gati (course or direction) A ii.161; jagato gati (id.) A ii.15, 17; sakunt!na' g. the course,
flight of birds Dh 92=Th 1, 92. -- Opp. !gati Pv ii.922. -- tass! gati' j!n!ti "he knows her going away, i. e.
where she has gone" PvA 6. -- 2. going away, passing on (=cuti, opp. upapatti coming into another
existence); course, esp after death, destiny, as regards another (future) existence A i.112; D ii.91; M i.388
(tassa k! gati ko abhisampar!yo? what is his rebirth and what his destiny?); in combn !gati v! gati v!
(=cutûpapatti), rebirth & death M i.328, 334. In defn of sa's!ra expld as gati bhavâbhava cuti upapatti=one
existence after the other Nd2 664; as gati upapatti pa&isandhi Nd2 on dh!tu (also as puna -- gati rebirth). --
The Arahant as being beyond Sa's!ra is also beyond gati: yassa gati' na j!nanti dev! gandhabba -- m!nus!
Dh 420=Sn 644; yesa' gati n' atthi Sn 499; and Nibb!na coincides with release from the gatis:
gativippamokkha' parinibb!na' SnA 368. -- att! hi attano gati "everybody is (the maker of) his own future
life" Dh 380; es! maccharino gati "this is the fate of the selfish" Pv iii.114; sabbagat" te ijjhantu "all fate be
a success to you" J v.393; gato so tassa y! gati "he has gone where he had to go (after death)" Pv i.122.
3. behaviour, state or condition of life, sphere of existence, element, especially characterized as sugati &
duggati, a happy or an unhappy existence. gati mig!na' pavana', !k!so pakkh"na' gati, vibhavo gati
dhamm!na', nibb!na' arahato gati: the wood is the sphere of the beasts, the air of the birds, decay is the
state of (all) things, Nibb!na the sphere of the Arahant Vin v.149=SnA 346; apuññal!bho ca gat" ca p!pik!
Dh 310; duggati J i.28; avijj!y' eva gati the quality of ignorance Sn 729; param!ya gatiy! samann!gato of
perfect behaviour M 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,
ap!ya, realm of misery). These gatis are given in the foll. order: (1) niraya purgatory, (2) tiracch!nayoni the
brute oreation, (3) pittivisaya the ghost world, (4) manuss! (m -- loka) human beings, (5) dev! gods: M
i.73; D iii.234; A iv.459; Nd2 550; cp. S v.474 -- 77; Vism 552. They are described in detail in the
Pañcagatid"pana (ed. L. Feer, J.P.T.S. 1884, 152 sq.; trsl. by the same in Annales du Musée Guimet v. 514 -
- 528) under
-- 243 --
Naraka -- ka*.a, Tiracch!na˚, Peta˚, Manussa˚, Deva˚. Of these Nos. 1 -- 3 are considered duggatis, whilst
Nos. 4 and 5 are sugati. In later sources we find 6 divisions, viz. 1 -- 3 as above, (4) asur!, (5) manuss!, (6)
dev!, of which 1 -- 4 are comprised under ap!y! (conditions of suffering, q. v.) or duggatiyo (see Pv iv.11,
cp. PvA 103). These six also at D iii.264. -- lokassa gati' paj!n!ti Bhagav! Sn 377
(gati=niray!dipañcappabheda' SnA 368). The first two gatis are said to be the fate of the micch!di&&hino D
i.228, dve ni&&h! DA i.249 (q. v. for var. appl. of gati) as well as the duss"l! (A i.60), whilst the last two are
the share of the s"lavanto (A. i.60). -- gata gone its course (of a legal enquiry, vinicchaya) Vin ii.85 (cp. Vin
Texts iii.26); J ii.1. agati 1. no course, no access, in agati tava tattha: there you have no access S i.115. --
2.=duggati, a wrong course. agatigamana a wrong course of life D iii.133; A i.72; ii.18 sq.; iii.274 sq.; J
v.510; PvA 161. Technically the four agati -- gaman!ni are: chanda˚ dosa˚ moha˚ bhaya˚ D iii.228 (see also
under chanda). sugati (sometimes suggati after duggati e. g. J vi.224) a happy existence; a realm of bliss;
the devaloka. Cp. sugatin. Usually with gacchati (sugati') & gata "gone to Heaven" Vin ii.195; D ii.202; It
77; PvA 65. In combn w. sagga loka (sugati', etc. uppajjati) D i.143; A i.97; J i.152. parammara*! sugati
p!&ikankh! It 24; suggati' gata Dh 18; sugati p!pehi kammehi sulabh! na hoti "bliss is not gained by evil"
PvA 87; =sugga & dibba&&h!na PvA 89; sugati -- par!yana sure of rebirth in a realm of bliss, ib. duggati a