गच्छति

गच्छति (root gam, first conjugation)

1. Devanagari script form of gacchati
   • 2017 July 19, Vinodh Rajan, Ben Mitchell, Martin Jansche, Sascha Brawer, “Proposal to Encode Lao Characters for Pali (revised)”, in Unicode‎ (PDF), page 2:

     बुद्धं सरणं गच्छामि

     buddhaṃ saraṇaṃ ɡacchāmi

     I go to the Buddha as a refuge.

• Present active participle: गच्छन्त् (gacchant), which see for forms and usage
• Present middle participle: गच्छमान (gacchamāna), which see for forms and usage
• Past participle: गत (gata), which see for forms and usage

गच्छति (gacchati)

1. Devanagari script form of gacchati, which is masculine/neuter locative singular of गच्छन्त् (gacchant), present participle of the verb above

Inherited from Proto-Indo-Aryan *gaśćáti, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *gasćáti, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷm̥sḱéti, a present tense formation of the root *gʷem-. Cognate with Ancient Greek βᾰ́σκω (báskō). For different formations, see the etymology of the root.

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɡɐ́t.t͡ɕʰɐ.ti/,
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɐt̪.t͡ɕʰɐ.t̪i/,

गच्छति • (gácchati) third-singular indicative (class 1, type UP, present, root गम्)

1. to go, move, go away, set out, come
   • c. 400 BCE, Bhagavad Gītā 6.37:

     अप्राप्य योगसंसिद्धिं कां गतिं कृष्ण गच्छति॥

     aprāpya yogasaṃsiddhiṃ kāṃ gatiṃ kṛṣṇa gacchati.

     If he hasn't attained perfection in yoga, Krishna, on what path does he go?

2. to go to or towards, approach
3. to go or pass (time)
4. to fall to the share of
5. to go against with hostile intentions, attack
6. to decease, die
7. to approach carnally, have sexual intercourse with
8. to go to any state or condition, undergo, partake of, participate in, receive, obtain

• अधिगच्छति (adhigacchati, “to find, perceive”)
• अवगच्छति (avagacchati, “to understand”)
• आगच्छति (āgacchati, “to come”)

• गमति (gámati, “to go”) (Vedic yet regular form from the same root)

• Pali: gacchati
• Ashokan Prakrit: 𑀕𑀙𑁂𑀬𑀁 (gacheyaṃ) (see further for descendants)