The seventeen hymns of
Zoroaster
, and thus texts of fundamental authority for
Zoroastrians
, especially in the liturgy (
yasna
). In Hinduism, g
th
s are poems which do not appear in the
Vedas
.
Gati
(Skt., P
li, ‘mode of existence’). The various levels of existence in Buddhism, in which reappearance can take place through the process of
karma
and
sa
s
ra
. There are six levels (three good, three bad), those of
(i) gods (
devas
);
(ii) humans;
(iii) spirits (
asuras
);
(iv) animals;
(v) restless ghosts (
pretas
);
(vi) hell beings (
naraka
)
.
Gau
ap
da
.