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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A cotton diaper cloth made in India.

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Examples

  • * Magati for the "second child" builds on proto-Ruvu * - gati "middle."

    Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE 2008

  • Most Burmese are familiar with the four a-gati, the four kinds of corruption.

    Freedom From Fear Aung San Suu Kyi 1991

  • Just as chanda-gati, when not the result of sheer avarice, can be caused by fear of want or fear of losing the goodwill of those one loves, so fear of being surpassed, humiliated or injured in some way can provide the impetus for ill will.

    Freedom From Fear Aung San Suu Kyi 1991

  • Dosa-gati is taking the wrong path to spite those against whom one bears ill will, and moga-gati is aberration due to ignorance.

    Freedom From Fear Aung San Suu Kyi 1991

  • Chanda-gati, corruption induced by desire, is deviation from the right path in pursuit of bribes or for the sake of those one loves.

    Freedom From Fear Aung San Suu Kyi 1991

  • But perhaps the worst of the four is bhaya-gati, for not only does bhaya, fear, stifle and slowly destroy all sense of right and wrong, it so often lies at the root of the other three kinds of corruption.

    Freedom From Fear Aung San Suu Kyi 1991

  • The Burdwan translator errors as usual, by taking krama to imply gati or end.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • For in the birth before, she was a man, doomed by _gati_ [40] to become a woman in the next, by reason of a sin.

    The Substance of a Dream F. W. Bain

  • Hence, the para gati of such Beings is a state of existence that transcends both Wakefulness and Dream, and transcends Dreamless slumber also (for in Dreamless slumber the 30 exist suspended, to be revived with the return of wakefulness), and is identical with the fourth state called Turiya.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • Marivera gati naakevaaru in Malavi of GNB was a fast number before the main item of the day.

    The Hindu - Front Page 2010

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