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saṅgahitā

saṅgahita

masc nom pl of saṅgahita (pp); fem nom sg of saṅgahita (pp); fem nom pl of saṅgahita (pp); nt nom pl of saṅgahita (pp); …

1. comprised (of); endowed (with); lit. held together
2. organized; arranged; managed; governed; lit. held together
3. included (in); taken together (with); part (of); lit. held together
4. treated kindly; lit. held together
5. held together

Built from

• saṁ — prefix · together
  Things brought into one collection or unity. From Indo-European *sem-, cognate with English 'same', Greek homo-, Latin con-.
• gahita — stem · taken, held
  Past participle of √gah 'to seize, grasp'. Cognate with Sanskrit gṛh-, Indo-European *ghend- (English 'get', German 'gewinnen').

Analysis. saṁ (together) + gahita (taken, held) — things brought into one collection or grasp; the prefix saṁ turns the simple action of taking (gahati) into the sense of holding together, organizing, or including as part of a whole.

Etymology. √gah 'to take, seize, grasp' (cognate with Sanskrit gṛh- and Indo-European *ghend- in English 'get', German 'gewinnen'); prefix saṁ 'together' (Indo-European *sem-, related to English 'same', Latin similis). The compound encodes the spatial image of bringing things together in one grasp.

Meanings from the Digital Pāḷi Dictionary; morphology and etymology by Claude.

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