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Noun
पाथस् • (pā́thas) stem, n
- spot, place
- Synonym: स्थान (sthāna)
c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE,
Ṛgveda 1.154.5.1:
- तदस्य प्रियमभि पाथो अश्यां नरो यत्र देवयवो मदन्ति ।
- tadasya priyamabhi pātho aśyāṃ naro yatra devayavo madanti.
- May I attain to that his well-loved place where men devoted to the Devas are happy.
c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE,
Ṛgveda 3.8.9.2:
- उन्नीयमानाः कविभिः पुरस्ताद्देवा देवानामपि यन्ति पाथः ॥
- unnīyamānāḥ kavibhiḥ purastāddevā devānāmapi yanti pāthaḥ.
- They, lifted up on high, by sages, eastward, go forth as Devas to the Devas' place.
- food (especially as an offering)
- Synonyms: भोजन (bhojana), भुक्ति (bhukti), आश (āśa), खान (khāna), नमस् (namas), आहार (āhāra), इडा (iḍā); see also Thesaurus:खान
c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE,
Ṛgveda 10.110.10.1:
- उपावसृज त्मन्या समञ्जन्देवानां पाथ ऋतुथा हवींषि ।
- upāvasṛja tmanyā samañjandevānāṃ pātha ṛtuthā havīṃṣi.
- Send to our offering which thyself thou balmest the Companies of Devas in ordered season.
- (Classical Sanskrit) water
- Synonyms: जल (jala), पानीय (pānīya), उदक (udaka), तोय (toya), अम्भस् (ambhas), उदन् (udan), अम्बु (ambu), वारि (vāri), सलिल (salila); see also Thesaurus:जल
Gaṅgālaharī :
- हरन्तां संतापं कमपि मरुदुल्लासलहरीछटाश्चञ्चत्पाथः कणसरणयो दिव्यसरितः ॥
- harantāṃ saṃtāpaṃ kamapi marudullāsalaharīchaṭāścañcatpāthaḥ kaṇasaraṇayo divyasaritaḥ.
c. 400 CE – 700 CE,
Amarasiṃha,
Amarakośa 1.262.2:
- कबन्धमुदकं पाथः पुष्करं सर्वतोमुखम् ॥
- kabandhamudakaṃ pāthaḥ puṣkaraṃ sarvatomukham.
- kabandha, udaka, pāthas, puṣkara, sarvatomukha
Declension
Further reading
- Monier Williams (1899) “पाथस्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 617, column 1.
- Hellwig, Oliver (2010-2024) “pāthas”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
- Apte, Vaman Shivram (1890) “पाथस्”, in The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary, Poona: Prasad Prakashan, page 1006
- Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “पाथस्”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press, page 160