Gata "gone" is the past passive participle of the verbal root gam "go, travel". Tathāgata is defined as someone who "knows and sees reality as-it-is" ( yathā bhūta ñāna dassana). This reality is also referred to as "thusness" or "suchness" ( tathatā), indicating simply that it (reality) is what it is. : 381–382 Tathā means "thus" in Sanskrit and Pali, and Buddhist thought takes this to refer to what is called "reality as-it-is" ( yathābhūta). Modern scholarly opinion generally opines that Sanskrit grammar offers at least two possibilities for breaking up the compound word: either tathā and āgata (via a sandhi rule ā + ā → ā), or tathā and gata. That is why he is called the Tathagata.( Anguttara Nikaya 4:23) Monks, in the world with its devas, Mara and Brahma, in this generation with its ascetics and brahmins, devas and humans, whatever is seen, heard, sensed and cognized, attained, searched into, pondered over by the mind-all that is fully understood by the Tathagata. The great physician whose medicine is all-potent.He who by the path of knowledge has come at the real essentials of things.(a) he who at birth took the seven equal steps in the same fashion as all previous Buddhas or (b) he who in the same way as all previous Buddhas went his way to Buddhahood through the four Jhanas and the Paths. who has worked his way upwards to perfection for the world's good in the same fashion as all previous Buddhas. He who has arrived in such fashion, i.e.The word's original significance is not known and there has been speculation about it since at least the time of Buddhaghosa, who gives eight interpretations of the word, each with different etymological support, in his commentary on the Digha Nikaya, the Sumangalavilasini:
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