gathita : [pp. of gantheti] bound; fettered; greedy for.
Gathita (adj.) [pp. of ganthati to tie, cp. gantha, knot; Sk. grathita] tied, bound, fettered; enslaved, bound to, greedy for, intoxicated with (c. loc.). When abs. always in combn w. paribhuñjati and w. ref. to some object of desire (bhoga, lābha, kāmaguṇe). Usually in standing phrase gathita mucchita ajjhāpanna (ajjhopanna) "full of greed & blind desire." In this connection it is frequently (by B MSS.) spelt gadhita and the editors of S, A, & Miln have put that in the text throughout. With mucchita & ajjhāpanna: D i.245; iii.43; M i.162, 173; S ii.270; iv.332; A v.178, 181 Nd2 on nissita C. -- c. loc.: J iv.371 (gharesu); DA i.59 (kāmaguṇesu). In other connections: ādānaganthaŋ gathitaŋ visajja Sn 794 (cp. Nd1 98); yāni loke gathitāni na tesu pasuto siyā Sn 940. -- J iv.5 (=giddha); v.274 (gedhita for pagiddha); PvA 262 (gadhita as expln of giddha) -- agathita (agadhita) not fettered (by desire) without desire, free from the ties of craving (+m˚, a˚) S ii.194, 269; A v.181; Miln 401 (trsl. Rh.D. ii.339: "without craving, without faintness, without sinking").