इति
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Sanskrit[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Cognate to Avestan 𐬬𐬍𐬯𐬬 (uiti, ūitī). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *éy.
Pronunciation[edit]
Particle[edit]
- in this manner, thus (used to delimit quotes)
- c. 400 BCE, Mahābhārata 3.195.7:
- समुद्र वालुकापूर्ण उज्जानक इति स्मृतः।
आगम्य च स दुष्टात्मा तं देशं भरतर्षभ।
बाधते स्म परं शक्त्या तम उदङ्काश्रमं प्रभो ॥- samudra vālukāpūrṇa ujjānaka iti smṛtaḥ.
āgamya ca sa duṣṭātmā taṃ deśaṃ bharatarṣabha.
bādhate sma paraṃ śaktyā tama udaṅkāśramaṃ prabho .
- samudra vālukāpūrṇa ujjānaka iti smṛtaḥ.
- समुद्र वालुकापूर्ण उज्जानक इति स्मृतः।
- as you know
- having done, then
- इत्य् उक्त्वा ― ity uktvā ― having said thus
References[edit]
- Monier Williams (1899), “इति”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, page 165.
