sick, ill; suffering, afflicted; wretched.

…healthy, well, in good condition SN.iii.1; Dhp.198.

Sk. ātura, cp. BSk. ātura, e.g. Jtm.31#70

Kaṇha¹

Son of Disā, a slave girl of Okkāka. He was called Kaṇha because he was black and, like a devil, spoke as soon as he was born. He was the ancestor of the Kaṇhāyanagotta. DN.i.93 Lat …

A class of beings classed with Garuḷas and Supaṇṇas and playing a prominent part in Buddhist folk lore. They are gifted with miraculous powers and great strength. Generally speaking, they are confused …

NālāgiriNāḷāgiri

An elephant of the royal stalls at Rājagaha. Devadatta, after several vain attempts to kill the Buddha, obtained Ajātasattu’s consent to use Nālagiri as a means of encompassing the B …

Susīma¹

A devaputta. Once, when Ānanda utters high praise of Sāriputta, Susīma, who is present, reflects on it and confirms all that Ānanda has said. The retinue of Susīma listen enraptu …

Sāgata

He was the personal attendant of the Buddha at he time when Soṇa Kolvisa visited Bimbisāra, with overseers of the eighty thousand townships of Bimbisāra’s kingdom. Sāgata was endowed with supe …

A city, capital of the Licchavis. It is not possible to know how many visits were paid by the Buddha to Vesāli, but the books would lead us to infer that they were several. Various Vinaya rules are me …

A class of non human beings generally described as non-human. They are mentioned with Devas, Rakkhasas, Dānavas, Gandhabbas, Kinnaras, and Mahoragas (? Nāgas).

Elsewhere AN.ii.38 they rank, in progr …

creates (by magic or supernatural power); produces, forms, shapes.

abhiññā¹

absol.

abhiññā²

feminine (& ~a m.?)

1. higher or special knowledge; true understanding.
2. a special or supernatural power or knowledge (five (or six): iddhividhā, …

stands upon, depends upon; mounts; stands over, supervises; controls; designates, takes (formal) possession of (robe, bowl etc); resolves on, fixes the mind on, undertakes; resolves, determines, produ …

stands upon, depends upon; mounts; stands over, supervises; controls; designates, takes (formal) possession of (robe, bowl etc); resolves on, fixes the mind on, undertakes; resolves, determines, produ …

stands upon, depends upon; mounts; stands over, supervises; controls; designates, takes (formal) possession of (robe, bowl etc); resolves on, fixes the mind on, undertakes; resolves, determines, produ …

support, basis; standpoint; abode; determination, resolution; fixing the mind on; determining, controlling, producing (by supernatural power); taking (formal) possession of, designating.

stands upon, depends upon; mounts; stands over, supervises; controls; designates, takes (formal) possession of (robe, bowl etc); resolves on, fixes the mind on, undertakes; resolves, determines, produ …

not made, not done; not manufactured, not treated, natural; not fashioned; what has not been done; what is not made ( nibbāna)

not made; not artificial, natural.

anacchariya¹

mfn. & neuter not marvelous, not surprising; natural; not unusual, unexceptional; a natural thing or occurrence

anacchariya²

mfn. spontaneous, original; not artic …

naturally; not surprisingly

natural state or essential property; right method; method according to the dhamma, to the doctrine.

(~ī?)n. n. & masculine ‘with the hair’, in a natural direction or order; suitable,

1. (mfn.) fit; in accordance with.
2. (n.m.) direct order, natural order; conformity, affirmation.

in a natural order; forwards

not sick; healthy; well

one of a class of supernatural beings, opposed to the devas; a titan.

caturassa¹

mfn. & m (or n.)

1. (mfn.) four cornered, quadrangular; four sided; square.
2. (m. or n.) a four cornered figure, a square or rectangle (?)
3. (~assa) yoked with four horses. …

four-cornered; quadrangular.

(or neuter)

consisting of four parts or aspects; with four factors or aspects.

having four parts; consisting of four parts.

having four parts; consisting of four parts.

measuring four inches; measuring four fingers breadth.

measuring four fingers breadth.

having for supports (or resolutions)

having four supports.

num 84

num.

consisting of six elements.

ruling over (the earth which is) bounded by the four (oceans) and consists of the four (continents); lord of the whole world.

1. 1. how the world of experience works, the processes by which it works and is explained (especially as formulated in cattāri ariyasaccānī and paṭiccasamuppāda), and the possibility and way of transc …

naturally remembering; good at remembering.

divine; heavenly; belonging to gods; supernatural; magical, marvelous.

the divine eye; supernatural sight.

(~ā ~ī)n. who possesses supernatural sight.

supernatural hearing.

supernatural hearing.

the divine eye; supernatural sight.

godlike or supernatural hearing.

divine; heavenly; belonging to gods; supernatural; magical, marvelous

which moves with eight constituent parts (?); which leads those with eight characteristics (?)

which moves with eight constituent parts (?); which leads those with eight characteristics (?)

exercise of supernatural power(s)

1. prosperity, success; splendor; splendid attribute, accomplishment.
2. esp. supernatural accomplishment, magic power (possessed by devas, etc, and attained by some ascetics and mendicants).

of splendid power; (one) who possesses supernatural power(s)

of splendid power; (one) who possesses supernatural power(s)

mastery of or possession of supernatural power(s)

basis of supernatural power(s)

marvel performed by supernatural power, a miracle; the miracle of supernatural power (one of the three marvels of the Buddha

( & ~a n.) a kind or variety of supernatural power

transformation effected by supernatural power(s); a display of magic

mastery of, possession of, supernatural power(s)

1. born; produce; grown, growing; arisen; who has been born.
2. become; present, apparent.
3. of earth; natural; productive?

natural pond or lake.

natural pond or lake.

1. birth, being born; the possibility of being (re-) born.

2. a birth; an existence.

3. 1. type of birth; class; lineage.
   2. type; kind; species.

4. natural or true state, nature; true, genuine; …

kaccha¹

masculine neuter a forest, esp. a dry wood; deadwood; under wood.

kaccha²

m.(& n. (?) pl. acc. ~āni) the armpit.

kaccha³

masculine a girdle, belt, esp. t …

something manufactured (e.g. cloth or worked metal); something not in its natural state

produces, forms, creates (by magic or supernatural power)

produces, forms, creates (by magic or supernatural power)

of nimmināti formed, produced, created; (a form) created (by magic or supernatural power); a magical creation

naturally disposed to attending carefully; given to closely observing.

a

1. a snake; a supematural serpent (usually living in water or under the earth), one of a race of mythical snakes (the enemies of the garuḷas)
2. an elephant.
3. the best or most excellent of its ki …

majesty, splendor; authority; power, efficacy; magic or supernatural power; instr. ~ena often expresses: by means of, owing to.

Paccaya: ‘condition’, is something on which something else, the so-called ‘conditioned thing’, is dependent, and without which the latter cannot be. Many are the ways in which one thing, or one o …

Pakati-sīla: ‘natural or genuine morality’, is distinct from those outward rules of conduct laid down for either laymen or Bhikkhus. Those later are the so-called ‘prescribed morality’ *paññātti …

Paticcasamuppāda: ‘dependent origination’, is the doctrine of the conditionality of all physical and psychical phenomena, a doctrine which, together with that of impersonality anattā, forms the …

Paññatti-sīla: ‘prescribed morality’, is a name for the disciplinary rules of the Bhikkhu or layman prescribed by the Buddha, as distinguished from natural or genuine morality pakati-sīla see: sīla

to come by, to attain, to realise grasp, understand (cp. adhigacchati) Mil.214 (catusaccâbhisamayaṃ abhisameti). frequently in comb^n. *abhisambujjhati abhisameti; abhisambujjhitvā abhisamet …

Acci-bandha

adjective at Vin.i.287 is expl^d. by Bdhgh as caturassa-kedāra-baddha (“divided into short pieces” Vin Texts ii.207), i.e. with squares of irrigated fields. The vv.ll. are ac …

adjective not made, not artificial, natural; -yūsa natural juice Vin.i.206.

a + kaṭa

“eating”, food, esp. boiled rice, but includes all that is eaten as food, viz. odana, kummāsa, sattu, maccha, maṃsa (rice gruel, flour, fish, meat) Mnd.372 = Mnd.495. Anna is spelt *[aṇṇa](/define/aṇṇ …

adjective “with the hair or grain”, i.e. in natural order, suitable, fit, adapted to, adaptable straight forward DN.ii.273 (anānuloma, q.v.) SN.iv.401; Pts.ii.67, Pts.ii.70; Dhp-a.ii.208
■ nt. dire …

rest, support, dependence MN.iii.127 (˚ka); DN.iii.224 (cattāri apassenāni); as adj caturāpassena one who has the fourfold support viz sankhāy’ ekaṃ paṭisevati, adhivāseti, parivajjeti, vinodeti AN. …

adjective not of natural form, of bad appearance, ugly, deformed Ja.v.69 (= sarīrappakāra-rahita dussaṇṭhāna C.). Cp. apākatika.

a + pakāra

adjective not in proper or natural shape, out of order, disturbed Dhp-a.ii.7. Cp. appakāra.

a + pākata + ika

orig. a sharp stone as hurling-weapon thence in mythol. Indra’s thunderbolt thunder-clap, lightning Ja.i.71, Ja.i.167; Ja.ii.154; Ja.iii.323; Mil.277; Vv-a.83.

• -aggi the fire …

Assa¹

shoulder; in cpd. assapuṭa shoulder-bag, knapsack i.e. a bag containing provisions instr. assupuṭena with provisions. Later exegesis has interpreted this as a bag full of ashes, …

Attha¹

(also aṭṭha, esp. in combinations mentioned under 3) masculine & neuter

1. interest, advantage, gain; (moral) good blessing, welfare; profit, prosperity, well-b …

…(+ vyasanagata Snp-a.489 ātura); Thig.439 (= aṭṭita Thag-a.270), 441 (= pīḷita Thag-a.271); Ja.iv.293 (= ātura C.); Vv.80#9 (attita…

Aṭṭha¹

num. card, eight, decl. like pl. of adj. in-a A. The number in objective significance, based on natural phenomena: see compounds ˚angula, ˚nakha, ˚pada, ˚pāda B. The number in …

grown, become; born, produced; nature as the result of becoming. The (exegetical) definition by Bdhgh of the word bhūta is interesting. He (at MN-a.i.31) distinguishes the foll. 7 …

Buddha¹

adjective

1. understood SN.i.35 = SN.i.60 (su-dub-buddha very difficult to understand)
2. having attained enlightenment, wise AN.iv.449; Pv-a.16 (buddh’ ādayo), Pv-a.60 (= ari …

…c. dhammiko dhammarājā cāturanto Snp.p.106, in corresp. pass Snp.1002 as vijeyya pathaviṃ imaṃ adaṇḍena asatthena…

base of numeral four

1. As num. adj. nom. & acc. m cattāro (Dhp.109; Ja.iii.51) and caturo (Snp.84, Snp.188), f. catasso (Snp.1122), nt. cattāri (Snp.227); gen. m. catunnaṃ (Snp.p.102), (f. catassa …

clever, skilled, shrewd Ja.iii.266; Ja.vi.25
■ Der. f. abstr. caturatā cleverness Vb.351 (= cāturiya).

Deriv. uncertain. Perhaps from tvar to move, that is quickly. Sk. catura

adjective clever, skilled Mhbv.148. See catura.

Sk. catura

…(taṇhā). -dhātura (= dhātuya) consisting of six elements MN.iii.239. -pañca…

…(taṇhā). -dhātura (= dhātuya) consisting of six elements MN.iii.239. -pañca…

…mind DN.i.20 = DN.iii.32; ātura˚ SN.iii.2–⁠SN.iii.5; nikaṭṭha˚ AN.ii.137; ṭhita˚ steadfast in body & soul (cp. ṭhitatta SN.v.74;…

eighty-four Ja.vi.226 (mahākappe as duration of Saṃsāra); Pv-a.254 (id.). Also as cūḷāsīti q.v.

= caturāsīti

skill, cleverness, shrewdness Ja.iii.267; Ja.vi.410; Thag-a.227; Vb.551; Vism.104 Dāvs v.30.

cp. catura + iya

Dasa¹

the number ten; gen dasannaṃ (Dhp.137); instr. dasahi (Kp iii.) & dasabhi (Vin.i.38). In compounds (-˚) also as ḷasa (soḷasa 16) rasa (terasa 13; pannar˚ 15; aṭṭhār˚ 18).

I. *M …

…(tayo acchariyā a. dh. pāturahesuṃ); Pv-a.2: hassa-khiḍḍhā-rati-dh
■ samāpanna endowed with the qualities or things of…

Dhañña¹

neuter grain, corn. The usual enumⁿ comprises 7 sorts of grain, which is however not strictly confined to grain-fruit proper (“corn”) but includes, like other enum ^…

element. Closely related to dhamma in meaning B 1^b, only implying a closer relation to physical substance. As to its gen. connotation cp. Dhs. trsl. p. 198.

1. a primary element, of whic …

adj. -˚ in cha˚ consisting of six elements (purisa) MN.iii.239 (where āpodhātu omitted by mistake). See dhātu 2 c.

= *dhātuya

number two.

A. Meanings

I. Two as unit

1. with objective foundation:
   1. denoting a combination (pair, couple) or a repetition (twice). In this conn. frequent both objective …

the throat Ja.i.216, Ja.i.264 Ja.iii.26; Ja.iv.494; Ja.i.194 (a dewlap); Pv-a.11, Pv-a.104.

• -agga the top of the throat Sdhp.379;
• -ajjhoharaniya able to be swallowed (of s …

Goṇaka¹

a kind of ox, a wild bull Ja.vi.538 (arañña˚).

goṇa¹

Goṇaka²

a woollen cover with long fleece (DN-a.i.86: dīghalomako mahākojavo; caturangulādhikāni kir …

Janati¹

only in Caus. janeti [Sk. janayati] often spelled jāneti (cp. jaleti: jāleti) & Pass. (intrs.) jāyati to bring forth, produce, cause, syn. sañjaneti nibbatteti …

1. As adj. n.un
   1. born, grown, arisen, produced (= nibbatta pātubhūta Cnd.256) Snp.576 (jātānaṃ maccānaṃ niccaṃ maraṇato bhayaṃ); jātena maccena kattabbaṃ kusalaṃ bahuṃ Dhp.53 = Mil.333; yakkhinī …

■ Instr. jātiyā (Snp.423) & jaccā (DN.ii.8; Ja.iii.395; Dhp.393); abl. jātiyā (SN.i.88) & jātito (by descent: DN.ii.8); loc. jātiyaṃ (Pv-a.10) & jātiyā (Pv-a.78).

1. birth, rebirth, possibility of …

adjective of good birth, having natural or genuine qualities, noble, excellent Snp.420 (vaṇṇārohena sampanno jātimā viya khattiyo); Ja.i.342 (jātimanta-kulaputtā). Of a precious stone: maṇi veḷuriyo …

the doing, deed, work orig. meaning (see karoti) either building (cp. Lit kùrti, Opr. kūra to build) or weaving, plaiting (still in mālākamma and latā˚ “the intertwining of garland …

(& sometimes; kaṭa) done, worked, made. Extremely rare as v. trs. in the common meaning of E. make, Ger. machen, or Fr. faire (see the cognate kapp and jan, also uppajjati & viss …

1. a corner, an angle Vin.i.48, Vin.i.286; Ja.i.73; Ja.iii.42 Ja.v.38; Ja.vi.519; Pv-a.74; Dhp-a.ii.178; Dāvs ii.111- cīvara˚; the edge of the garment Vism.389. Freq. in cpd. catu˚; (catukkaṇṇa …

adjective containing pungent substances (generally three: tekaṭula) Vin.i.210 (yāgu), cp. tikaṭuka

Sk. kaṭura

Kaṭṭha¹

ploughed, tilled Snp.80; Mil.255; Pv-a.45, Pv-a.62. a˚ untilled, unprepared Anvs.27. su˚ well-ploughed AN.i.229; Mil.255.

Sk. kṛṣṭa, pp. of kasati, cp. kiṭṭha

Kaṭṭha^{2</su …}

an irrigated field, prepared for ploughing, arable land in its first stage of cultivation: kedāre pāyetvā karissāma “we shall till the fields after watering them” Ja.i.215; as square-shaped (i.e. mar …

…Ja.ii.246; koṭthake pāturahosi appeared at the gateway, i.e. arrived at the mansion Vin.i.291.;
■ udaka-k a bath-room, bath cabinet…

1. a round jar, waterpot (= kulālabhājana earthenware Dhp-a.i.317), frequent in similes, either as illustrating fragility or emptiness and fullness: AN.i.130, AN.i.131 = Pp.32; AN.v.337; SN.ii.83; Mi …

Kāla & Kāḷa

Preliminary

1. dark (syn. kaṇha, which cp. for meaning and applications), black, blueblack, misty, cloudy. Its proper sphere of application is the dark as opposed to light, and i …

…DN-a.i.311;

• -ātura affected by passion, love-sick Ja.iii.170;
• -ārāma pleasure-loving…

,

1. 1. a deed, action, performance, esp. an act imposed or inflicted upon somebody by a higher authority (by the king as representative of justice or by kamma MN.iii.181; see *kamma …

…kāyo na paleti Snp.1144; ātura-kāyo SN.iii.1 (cittaṃ anāturaṃ); paripuṇṇa-k˚ suruci sujāto etc., with a perfect body (of the…

Kāla & Kāḷa

Preliminary

1. dark (syn. kaṇha, which cp. for meaning and applications), black, blueblack, misty, cloudy. Its proper sphere of application is the dark as opposed to light, and i …

metal, esp. copper, brass or bronze It is often used as a general term & the individual application is not always sharply defined. Its comprehensiveness is evident from the classification of *[loha](/ …

(-˚) adjective having hair, in cpd. caturaṅga˚; having fourfold hair (i.e. on the diff. parts of the body? Vin.iv.173. It may refer to the 5 dermatoid constituents of the body (see *[pañcaka](/defi …

salt; as adj., salty, of salt, alkaline- Vin.i.202 (loṇāni bhesajjāni alkaline medicine among which are given sāmuddaṃ kāḷaloṇaṃ sindhavaṃ ubbhidaṃ bilaṃ as var. kinds of salt), Vin.i.220 = Vin.i.243 …

Mano & Mana(s)

neuter

I. Declension

Like all other nouns of old s-stems mano has partly retained the s forms (cp cetah → ceto) & partly follows the a-declension. The …

Mano & Mana(s)

neuter

I. Declension

Like all other nouns of old s-stems mano has partly retained the s forms (cp cetah → ceto) & partly follows the a-declension. The …

orig. a divine saying or decision, hence a secret plan (cp. def. of mant at Dhtp.578 by “gutta-bhāsane”), counsel; hence magic charm, spell. In particular a secret religious code or doctrine, esp. …

1. a wild animal, an animal in its natural state (see compounds).
2. a deer, antelope, gazelle Various kinds are mentioned at Ja.v.416; two are given at Cnd.509, viz. eṇi (antelope) & …

Māḷa & Māla

a sort of pavilion, a hall DN.i.2 (maṇḍala˚, same at Snp.p.104, which passage Snp-a.447 explains as “savitānaṃ maṇḍapaṃ”); Vin.i.140 (aṭṭa, māla, pāsāda explained at Vin.iii.201. In the …

1. to build, construct SN.ii.106 (nagaraṃ); Mhvs.6, Mhvs.35 (id.); Vv.84#53; Vv-a.260.
2. to create, bring about make or cause to appear by supernatural power (in folkoristic literature, cp. nimmināt …

Māḷa & Māla

a sort of pavilion, a hall DN.i.2 (maṇḍala˚, same at Snp.p.104, which passage Snp-a.447 explains as “savitānaṃ maṇḍapaṃ”); Vin.i.140 (aṭṭa, māla, pāsāda explained at Vin.iii.201. In the …

adjective past participle

measured out, planned, laid out; created (by supernatural power iddhi); measured, stately DN.i.18, DN.i.56 (iddhiyā pi DN-a.i.167), DN.i.219 (Su˚ devaputta. Np.), ibid. (Pa …

Nisagga & Nissagga

giving forth, bestowing; natural state, nature SN.i.54 (˚ss˚). cp. nisaṭṭha

ni or nis + sṛj

Nisagga & Nissagga

giving forth, bestowing; natural state, nature SN.i.54 (˚ss˚). cp. nisaṭṭha

ni or nis + sṛj

1. restraint, constraint, training, self-control Mil.116 (yama +); Pv-a.98 (yama +).
2. definiteness certainty, limitation Dhp-a.iii.83 (catumagga˚, variant reading niyāma); Snp-a.124 (niyāma); …

past participle led, guided; ascertained, inferred AN.i.60 (˚attha); Ja.i.262; Ja.ii.215 (kāma˚); Ne.21 (˚attha natural meaning, i.e. the primarily inferred sense, opp neyyattha); Sdhp.366 (dun˚). Cp. …

adjective belonging to one’s own breast, self-begotten, legitimate; innate, natural, own MN.ii.84; MN.iii.29; SN.ii.221 (bhagavato putto o. mukhato jāto); SN.iii.83; Ja.iii.272; Vv.50#22; Thag-a.236 …

done, made; as -˚ by nature (cp. pakati) Snp.286; Ja.iv.38; Pv.i.6#8; Pv.ii.3#16; Pv.iii.10#5 (pāpaṃ samācaritaṃ Pv-a.214); Mil.218; Dhp-a.ii.11 (pāpaṃ) Pv-a.31, Pv-a.35, Pv-a.103 (ṭ), Pv-a.124 …

1. original or natural form, natural state or condition (lit. make-up); as ˚- = primary original, real Vin.i.189; Vin.ii.113; Ja.i.146 (˚vesena in her usual dress); Kp-a.173 (˚kammakara, ˚jeṭṭhaput …

adjective

1. (adj.) happening, going on, procedure, resulting Thig.220 (assu ca pavattaṃ taken by Mrs. Rh. D. as “tears shed”); Thag-a.179; Pv-a.35, Pv-a.83 (gāthāyo), Pv-a.120, esp. with ref. to …

adjective noun masculine

Cases:
■ gen. dat. pañcannaṃ,
■ instr. abl pañcahi,
■ loc. pañcasu;
■ often used in compositional form pañca˚ (cp. Ved. pañcāra with 5 spokes RV i.164¹³; G …

Pussa˚

at Mnd.90 in compounds -tila, ˚tela, dantakaṭṭha, mattikā, etc. is probably to be read with variant reading phussa˚ meaning not quite clear (“natural, raw”?).

adjective natural, in its original or natural state Ja.v.274; Mil.218 (maṇiratana); Dhp-a.i.20; Vv-a.288; Pv-a.66 (where id. p Ja.iii.167 reads paṭipākatika), Pv-a.206; pākatikaṃ karoti to resto …

rock, stone AN.i.283; Snp.447; Ja.i.109, Ja.i.199; Ja.v.295; Vism.28, Vism.182, Vism.183; Vb-a.64 (its size as cp^d with pabbata); Dhp-a.iii.151; Dhs-a.389; Vv-a.157; Sdhp.328.

• *-[gu …

…aor. pāturahosi [cp. BSk. prādurabhūt Jtm. 211]; Vin.i.5; DN.i.215; DN.ii.20; SN.i.137; Pv.ii.8#6; Mil.10, Mil.18;…

Pīta¹

1. having drunk or (pred.) being drunk (as liquid) SN.i.212 (madhu˚); Ja.i.198; Pv-a.25 (with asita, khāyita & sāyita as fourfold food).
2. soaked or saturated with (-˚), in *kasāya …

Ratha¹

a two-wheeled carriage, chariot (for riding driving or fighting SN.i.33 (ethically); AN.iv.191 (horse cart; diff. parts of a ratha); MN.i.396; Snp.300, Snp.654 Vism.593 (in its com …

…dhammiko dhamma-rājā cāturanto vijitāvī janapadatthāvariya-ppatto satta-ratana-samannāgato,“ e.g. DN.iii.59. Dhammapāla gives the…

…dhammiko dhamma-rājā cāturanto vijitāvī janapadatthāvariya-ppatto satta-ratana-samannāgato,“ e.g. DN.iii.59. Dhammapāla gives the…

…(cp. explⁿ of ātura rūpa Vv.83#14 by abhitunna -kāya Vv-a.328), but not so much with ref….

Sara¹

1. the reed Saccharum sara Mil.342.
2. an arrow (orig. made of that reed) DN.i.9; Dhp.304; Mil.396; Dhp-a.216 (visa-pīta).

• -tuṇḍa a beak as sharp as an arrow …

one of the most difficult terms in Buddhist metaphysics, in which the blending of the subjective-objective view of the world and of happening peculiar to the East, is so complete, that it is almost i …

Siddha¹

boiled, cooked Ja.ii.435 (= pakka); Ja.v.201 (˚bhojana); Mil.272; Snp-a.27 (˚bhatta = pakk’odana of Snp.18).

a specific Pali formation fr. sijjati (svid) in meaning “to cook,” …

Soṇḍī¹

feminine a natural tank in a rock Ja.i.462; Dhp-a.ii.56 (soṇḍi); udaka-˚; Ja.iv.333; Vism.119; Kp-a.65 (soṇḍikā).

Soṇḍī²

feminine the neck of a tortoise SN.iv.177 …

Su¹

indeclinable a part. of exclamation “shoo!”; usually repeated su su Ja.ii.250; Ja.vi.165 (of the hissing of a snake); Thag-a.110 (scaring somebody away), Thag-a.305 (sound of puffi …

dog AN.i.48; AN.ii.122; Thig.509; Ja.i.175, Ja.i.189; Ja.ii.128, Ja.ii.246; Pv-a.151, Pv-a.206
■ rukkha˚ some sort of animal Ja.vi.538. fem. sunakhī a bitch Ja.iv.400
■ Na …

? beaten out, Mil.415 (with vv.ll. suthiketa, suphita & supita). Should we read su-poṭhita? Kern;

Toevoegselen

ii.85 proposes su-pīta “well saturated” (with which cp. supāyita Ja.iv.118, sai …

this word is beset with difficulties, the phrase satt-ussada is applied in all kinds of meanings, evidently the result of an original application & meaning having become obliterated satt˚ is taken as …

appearance etc (lit. “cover, coating”). There is a considerable fluctuation of meaning, especially between meanings 2, 3, 4. One may group as follows.

1. colour Snp.447 (meda˚); SN.v.216 (chavi˚ of t …

adjective noun fanning, a fan Vin.ii.130; Vin.iv.263; AN.ii.130; Cnd.562; Vv.33#42 (= caturassa vījani) Vv-a.147; Vb-a.71.

fr. vidhūpeti

adjective victorious DN.i.88 (caturanta +); DN.ii.146; SN.iii.83; Snp.552, Snp.646; DN-a.i.249; Dhp-a.iv.232; Snp-a.162.

vijita + āvin; see Geiger,

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-ā (f.) miraculous transformation, change; assuming a diff. form by supernatural power; miracle Thag.1183; Pts.ii.174, Pts.ii.210 Dpvs.viii.6 (˚esu kovida); Mhvs.19, Mhvs.19; Mil.343 Vism.309, Vism …

1. change, alteration, in mahā˚; great change Vism.366, Vism.367 (of two kinds: anupādiṇṇa upādiṇṇa, or primary & secondary, i.e. the first caused by kappa-vuṭṭhāna, the second by dhātu-kkhobha) K …

adjective against the grain (lit. against the hair), discrepant, reversed, wrong, unnatural Vin.ii.115 (of cīvara: unsightly); Ja.iii.113; Dpvs.vii.55; Dhp-a.i.379; Pv-a.87.

vi + loma

reflection, thought, thinking; “initial application” (Cpd. 282)
■ defined as “vitakkanaṃ vitakko, ūhanan ti vuttaṃ hoti” at Vism.142 (with simile on p. 143, comparing vitakka with vicāra kumbhakār …

Vivatta-cchada

adjective having the cover removed, with the veil lifted; one who draws away the veil (cp. vivaraṇa or reveals (the Universe etc.); or one who is freed of all (mental & spiritual) cov …

unattacked, not deficient, unmolested, undisturbed: is Kern’s (

Toevoegselen

s. v.) proposed reading for viññū-pasattha (“extolled by the wise”) at SN.ii.70 (reads ṭṭh); SN.v.343; DN.ii.80; DN. …

1. name of certain non-human beings, as spirits, ogres, dryads, ghosts spooks. Their usual epithet and category of being is amanussa, i.e. not a human being (but not a sublime g …

lit. “yoking, or being yoked,” i.e. connection bond, means; fig. application, endeavour, device

1. yoke, yoking (rare?) Ja.vi.206 (meant here the yoke of the churning-sticks; cp. Ja.vi.209).
2. conn …

made a habit of, indulged in, acquired, mastered (cp. explⁿ Pts.i.172 “yattha yattha ākankhati tattha tattha vasippatto hoti balappatto etc.”). The expression is to be compared with *yatānu …

1. juice Vin.i.206 (akaṭa˚ natural juice); Mhvs.28, Mhvs.26; Vv-a.185 (badara˚ of the jujube); Vism.195 (seda sweaty fluid).
2. soup, broth. Four kinds of broths are enumerated at MN.i.245, viz. *mug …

adjective raw, uncooked DN.i.5 = Pp.58 (˚maṃsa raw flesh); MN.i.80 (titta-kalābu āmaka-cchinno).

• -dhañña “raw” grain, corn in its natural, unprepared state DN.i.5 = Pp.58 (se …

hole dug in the ground, a pit, a well DN.i.142 (yaññ˚); Ja.i.99, Ja.i.264; Ja.ii.406; Ja.iii.286; Ja.iv.46 (caturassa); Ja.vi.10; Dhp-a.i.223; Vv-a.63; Pv-a.225.

etym.?