meaning for ashtapathi

[CHELLAM]

can someone give the meaning for the Ashtapathy
Rathi suka sare gadhamabe sare

thanking in advance

[Pratyaksham Bala]

Please check :-
http://www.sangeetasudha.org/jayadeva/j10.html

[rshankar]

And once again, a request to call this ashTapadi, and not ashTapati (the latter would mean 8 husbands, perhaps?)

[Sundara Rajan]

Incidentally as an aside, while ashtapathi could mean one with eight husbands (!) or eight masters, ashtapAti would mean one who has read/mastered eight books, similar to TripAti to mean one who has read/ mastered three books, DwivEdi, trivEdi, ChaturvEdi for those who have mastered two,three or four vEdAs.

[Rsachi]

tripAThi written in Sanskrit as त्रिपाठी the root is as given below
त्रिपाठिन्

(H3) त्रि--पाठिन् [p= 459,2] [L=87933] m. familiar with the 3 वेदs (epithet of a commentator on Va1s. and of several copyists).

[Sundara Rajan]

Agreed. The confusion arises out of transliteration from Samritam to English.
"pat to read" is the root. patathi=reads
त्रिपाठी = tripAti or tripAThi is my difficulty in transliteration. Which is correct, as per convention , I am not sure.
In Tamizh also we say " padi" படி for reading !