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इति f. 1.f.इत्यै॑ (dat. ) See √ इ above इति (for 2. See s. v.) इति n. 2.ind. (fr. pronominal base 3. इ), in this manner, thus (in its original signification refers to something that has been said or thought, or lays stress on what precedes; in the ब्राह्मणs it is often equivalent to ‘as you know’, reminding the hearer or reader of certain customs, conditions, &c. supposed to be known to him). In quotations of every kind means that the preceding words are the very words which some person has or might have spoken, and placed thus at the end of a speech it serves the purpose of inverted commas (इ॑त्य् उक्त्वा, having so said; इ॑ति कृत्वा, having so considered, having so decided). It may often have reference merely to what is passing in the mind e.g. बालो ऽपि ना-वमन्तव्यो मनुष्य इ॑ति भूमिपः, a king, though a child, is not to be despised, saying to one's self, ‘he is a mortal’, ([Gr. 928.] ) In dram. इ॑ति तथा करोति means ‘after these words he acts thus.’ Sometimes is used to include under one head a number of separate objects aggregated together (e.g. इज्या-ध्ययनदानानि तपः सत्यं क्षमा दमःअलोभ इ॑ति मार्गो ऽयम्, ‘sacrificing, studying, liberality, penance, truth, patience, self-restraint, absence of desire’, this course of conduct, &c.) is sometimes followed by एवम्, इव, or a demonstrative pronoun pleonastically (e.g. ताम् ब्रूयाद् भवती-त्य् एवम्, her he may call ‘lady’, thus). may form an adverbial compound with the name of an author (e.g. इ॑ति-पाणिनि, thus according to पाणिनि). It may also express the act of calling attention (lo! behold!) It may have some other significations e.g. something additional (as in इ॑त्यादि, et caetera), order, arrangement specific or distinctive, and identity. It is used by native commentators after quoting a rule to express ‘according to such a rule’ (e.g. अनुदात्तङित इ॑त्य् आत्मनेपदम् भवति, according to the rule of पाणिनि, i, 3, 12, the आत्मने-पद takes place). किम् इ॑ति = किम्, wherefore, why? (In the शतपथ-ब्राह्मणति occurs for ; cf. Prākṛtti and tti.) इति ‘and so forth’ (चो-तिच, ‘thus and thus’, ‘in this and that manner’), [MBh.]
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