atta¹

masculine

1. the self, the soul, as a permanent, unchangeable, autonomous entity (always rejected by the Pāḷi Buddhist texts as not corresponding to any reality).
2. the self, one’s …

…a watchtower.

aṭṭa²

mfn. a lawsuit, a legal case.

aṭṭa³

mfn. distressed, tormented, afflicted;…

taken; assumed; grasped.

Attā: Self, ego, personality, soul, is in Buddhism a mere conventional expression vohāradesanā, and not a designation for anything really existing; see: paramattha-desanā, anattā, puggala, satta, jīva.

Atta¹

that which has been taken up, assumed. atta-daṇḍa, he who has taken a stick in hand, a violent person, SN.i.236; SN.iv.117; Snp.630, Snp.935; Dhp.406. Attañjaha, rejecting what …

…see aṭṭaka

Aṭṭa²

lawsuit, case, cause Vin.iv.224; Ja.ii.2, Ja.ii.75; Ja.iv.129 (˚ṃ vinicchināti…

Abhaya ¹

A monk whose verse concerning the bewildering effects of beautiful sights is in the Theragāthā. Thag.98

Abhaya²Abhayarājakumāra

The son of King Bimbisāra and of Padum …

Acelakassapa¹AcelaKassapa

A naked ascetic. He visited the Buddha at Ujuññā in the Kaṇṇa-katthala deer-park and asked him if it were true that he disparaged all penance and reviled asceti …

A river, the modern Rāpti in Uttar Pradesh; one of the pañca-mahānadī, Vin.ii.237 the five great rivers flowing from the Himālaya eastwards (pācīnaninnā) SN.v.39 into the sea. During the hot seas …

A prostitute in Rājagaha who entered the Order of the bhikkhunis. Wishing to obtain the higher ordination from the Buddha, she set out for Sāvatthī, but was waylaid and stopped by libertines. So she s …

A brahmin of Khemavatī, father of the Buddha Kakusandha. His wife was named Visākhā. DN.ii.7

Aggikabhāradvāja¹AggikaBhāradvāja

A brahmin of Sāvatthī, of the Bhāradvāja clan. The Buddha, while on his rounds, sees him tending the fire and preparing oblations, and stands for alms in …

AjātasattuVedehiputta

Son of Bimbisāra, King of Māgadha, and therefore half-brother to Abhayarājakumāra. He murdered his father to gain the throne, and conspired with Devadatta to kill the Buddha, b …

AmbāṭakavanaAmbālavana

A grove at Macchikāsaṇḍa, belonging to Cittagahapati. It became the residence of large numbers of monks, and discussions often took place there between Cittagahapati and the re …

An epithet of the Buddha. When Upaka, the ājīvika, saw the Buddha, and heard of his attainments, Anantajina was one of the names he used in uttering the Buddha’s praises.

A well-known paribbājaka who lived in the Paribbājakārāma on the banks of the River Sappinī near Rājagaha. He is mentioned as staying with the well-known paribbājakas, Varadhara and Sakuludāyi. …

Daughter of the Treasurer Majjha of Sāketa. She was so called (’Peerless“) because of her beauty. When she grew up, all sorts of eminent men sought her hand with rich gifts, but she was unwilling to m …

A semi-mythical lake, said to be in the Himalayas. Thag.430

Himalaya5lake

A township in the Malla country to the east of Kapilavatthu. Large numbers of Sākiyan princes joined the Order there, including Bhaddiya, Anuruddha, Ānanda, Bhagu, Kimbila, Devadatta and their barber, …

First cousin of the Buddha and one of his most eminent disciples. He was the son of the Sākyan Amitodana and brother of Mahānāma. When members of other Sākyan families had joined the Order of their di …

A banker (seṭṭhi) of Sāvatthī who became famous because of his unparalleled generosity to the Buddha. His first meeting with the Buddha was during the first year after the Enlightenment, in Rājagaha …

The Bodhisatta, born as a brahmin teacher. In the Aṅguttara Nikāya AN.iv.136–138 we are told that among Araka’s pupils those who followed his teachings were born in the Brahma-world, while the others …

Inhabitants of the fifth of the nine abodes of beings (sattāvāsā). These beings are unconscious and experience nothing. AN.iv.401 As soon as an idea occurs to them they fall from their state. DN.i.28

A headman (gāmani). He came to the Buddha in the Pārileyyaka Mango Grove in Nāḷandā and asked him various questions, recorded in the Saṃyutta Nikāya. SN.iv.312ff. One of these related to the custo …

One of the tortures of purgatory. In the distance the grove appears as a mango grove, and when the inhabitants of purgatory enter, wishing to eat the mangoes, leaves which are sharp like swords fall o …

Assaji¹

The fifth of the Pañcavaggiyā monks. When the Buddha preached the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, he was the last in whom dawned the eye of Truth, and the Buddha had to discourse to h …

The country of Assaka is one of the sixteen Mahājanapadas mentioned in the Aṅguttara Nikāya.AN.i.213 AN.iv.252 AN.iv.256 AN.iv.260 It does not, however; occur in the list of twelve countries given in …

One of the four great monarchies in the time of the Buddha, the other three being Māgadha, Kosala and Vaṃsa (or Vatsa). Avanti is also mentioned among the sixteen Great Nations. AN.i.213 AN.iv.252 AN. …

A class of devas. Their world ranks among the five foremost of the rupa-worlds, the Suddhāvāsā.DN.ii.52 DN.iii.237 DN.iii.237 Anāgāmīs are born in Avihā and there attain arahantship. The Buddha once …

AññātakoṇḍaññaKoṇḍañña

One of the five ascetics known as the Pañcavaggiyā. When, after the Enlightenment, the Buddha visited them at Isipatana and preached the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, Koṇḍañña w …

AṅgulimālaAhiṃsakaGaggaMantāniputta

A robber and murderer who was converted by the Buddha in the twentieth year of his ministry, and who later became an arahant. MN86

As a result of his deeds whole …

Aṭṭhaka¹

A celebrated sage, composer and reciter of sacred runes, mentioned together with nine others (Vāmaka, Vāmadeva, Vessāmitta, Yamataggi, Aṅgīrasa, Bhāradvāja, Vāseṭṭha and Bhagu), V …

Bhaddiya¹

An anāgāmī, one of seven persons who became arahants as soon as they were born in Avihā. SN.i.35 SN.i.60

Bhaddiya²Kāligodhāputta

Chief among monks of aristocratic …

Bhaddā¹

Wife of King Muṇḍa. At her death the king placed her body in a vessel of oil and mourned for her until his friend Piyaka took him to Nārada Thera at the Kukkuṭārāma, and there made …

A bhikkhunī whose Therīgāthā verses speak of going forth out of faith and attaining the Dhamma. Thig.9

One of the sixteen disciples of Bāvarī, who, at his request, visited the Buddha. Snp.1008

He questioned the Buddha as to how a man could get over attachment and cross the flood. By grasping after not …

A clothed Wanderer who lived in a pleasance near Anupiya.

He was a friend of Sunakkhatta. The Buddha once visited him, and their conversation is recorded in the Pātika Sutta. DN.iii.1ff.

The name of a tribe and a country, the capital of which was Suṃsumāragiri. The Bhagga country lay between Vesāli and Sāvatthī.

The Buddha went there several times in the course of his wanderings AN.i …

The name of two Pacceka Buddhas. MN.iii.69

BimbisāraSeniya

King of Māgadha and patron of the Buddha.

According to the Pabbajā Sutta Snp.405ff. the first meeting between the Buddha and Bimbisāra took place in Rājagaha under the Paṇḍavapabba …

The name given to a being who aspires to Bodhi or Awakening. Originally only in connection with the last life of a Buddha, especially after having left home, in such contexts as “in the days before my …

Brahmadatta¹

King of Kāsi. He captured Kosala and murdered its king Dīghiti and Dīghiti’s wife, but made peace later with Dīghiti’s son, Dīghāvu, restored to him his father’s kingdom, and …

Bāhiya¹Dārucīriya

As an ascetic, he came himself to believe that he had attained arahantship, but a devatā, reading his thoughts and wishing him well, pointed out to him his error and ad …

BārānasīBenares

The capital of Kāsi-janapada. It was one of the four places of pilgrimage for the Buddhists - the others being Kapilavatthu, Buddhagayā and Kusināra - because it was at, the Migadā …

Candana¹

A deva, vassal of the Four Regent Gods. DN.ii.258 He is mentioned as one of the chief Yakkhas to be invoked by followers of the Buddha in case of need. DN.iii.204 He once visited …

A discourse on the teaching of Devadatta, delivered by Candikāputta to the monks, is recorded in the Silāyūpa Sutta. AN.iv.402f.

King of Avanti in the time of the Buddha. His name was Pajjota, the sobriquet being added on account of his violent temper.

Once, when ill with jaundice, he asked Bimbisāra to lend him the services o …

A bhikkhunī whose Therīgāthā verses speak of how, with no family or friends, she wandering begging food to survive. One day she met Paṭācārā who had just finished eating. Paṭācārā, seeing her pitiable …

Channa¹

A Wanderer, classed among those who wore clothes. He is only mentioned once, in the Aṅguttara Nikāya, AN.iii.215 where we are told that he visited Ānanda at Sāvatthī and asked him …

Citta¹

A householder of Macchikāsaṇḍa, where he was Treasurer. He was later declared by the Buddha to be pre-eminent among laymen who preached the Doctrine. AN.i.26

When Mahānāma visited …

A nun whose Therīgāthāspeak of how in her old age she went to Gijjhakūṭa and there, after meditation, she attained arahantship. Thig.27–28

Cunda¹

A worker in metals living in Pāvā. When the Buddha reached Pāvā on his way to Kusinārā, he stayed in Cunda’s Mango grove. There Cunda visited him and invited him and the monks to a …

The inhabitants of the lowest deva world. his world derives its name from the Four Great Kings (Cattāro Mahārājāno) who dwell there as guardians of the four quarters: Dhataraṭṭha of the East, Virūḷh …

…“evolution” (cetovivaṭṭa). AN.i.23

His Theragathā verses speak of how slow his progress was in Dhamma, so much so that his brother…

A township of the Kosalans near the Aciravatī; it was visited by the Buddha during a tour in Kosala. There he preached the Udāna Sutta in answer to a question by Ānanda, as to how the Buddha knew of t …

A monk, a close relative of the Buddha, who split the Sangha, and attempted to overthrow the Buddha and have him murdered. In one passage in the Vinaya, Vin.ii.189 Devadatta is spoken of as Godhiputta …

An eminent Therī, ranked foremost among nuns who possessed the gift of preaching. AN.i.25 Her Therīgāthā verse says that one without attachment is bound upstream. Thig.12 In Rājagaha her former husban …

A monk whose Theragāthā verse speaks of going forth and attaining the three knowledges. Thag.107

A brahmin lady, mother of Kassapa Buddha. Her husband was Brahmadatta. DN.ii.7

Dhīrā¹

A bhikkhunī whose Therīgāthā verse speaks of the wise one who attains Nibbana. Thig.6

Dhīrā²Vīrā

A bhikkhunī whose Therīgāthā verse speaks of how the heroic one overcom …

A Koliyan, inhabitant of Kakkarapatta. There he visited the Buddha and asked for a teaching which would bring happiness both in this world and the next. The Buddha explained to him the four conditions …

DīghāyuDīghāvu

Son of Dīghīti, king of Kosala. After his parents had been cruelly murdered by Brahmadatta, king of Kāsi, he became the attendant of this kind; in order to avenge their death, but when …

DīghītiDīghati

A king of Kosala. His kingdom was captured by Brahmadatta, king of Kāsi, and he and his wife fled to Benares, where they lived in disguise in the house of a potter. His wife bore a son …

A follower of Kassapa Buddha. Five hundred others were associated with him, and at first their spiritual life was poor. Gavesī, realising this, put forth effort and, step by step, attained greater pro …

A hill near Gayā. Here the Buddha came from Uruvelā after converting the Tebhātika-Jaṭilā (the three Kassapa ascetics), and here he lived with one thousand monks. On this occasion of his coming he ta …

A Sākiyan of Kapilavatthu, who built a monastery attached to the Nigrodhārāma. There the Mahā Suññatā Sutta was preached. MN.iii.110

In the time of Kassapa Buddha he was a potter of Vehaliṅga, looking after his blind parents. He was a very pious and devoted follower of the Buddha, ministering to him better than anyone else, and the …

GijjhakūṭaVulture’s Peak

One of the five hills encircling Rājagaha. It was evidently a favourite resort of those who followed the religious life.

The Buddha seems to have been attracted by its solit …

The Theragāthā Thag.659–672 contains several stanzas attributed to him, which speak of remaining even among the challenges of life, and the importance of holding to wisdom and righteousness.

Probably the mother of Devadatta, who is sometimes called Godhiputta. Vin.ii.189

A monk whose Theragāthā verse speaks of his delight in meditating while the rain falls on his little hut. Thag.51

According to the Saṃyutta SN.i.120f. account, Godhika lived on the Kāḷasilā in Isig …

HimavāHimācalaHimavantaHimālaya

The Himālaya mountains. In Himavā, are seven great lakes, each fifty leagues in length, breadth and depth—Anotattā, Kaṇṇamuṇḍā, Rathakāra, Chaddantā, Kuṇālā, Mandākinī …

A river, on the bank of which was the Upavattana Sālavana of the Mallas of Kusināra, where the Buddha died. DN.ii.137

Hirakinari1river

A town in the Kuru country. In the Kurudhamma Jataka J.ii.365f; also J.iii.400; J.iv.361; J.v.457; J.vi.255; Cyp.i.3, Cyp.v.1, Dhananjaya Koravya, is mentioned as its king and as the owner of Anjanava …

Isidatta¹

A verse uttered by Isidatta, in response to the Buddha’s enquiry regarding his welfare, is recorded in the Therāgāthā. Thag.120

According to the Saṃyutta Nikāya, SN.iv.283–288 I …

A thera. He had a brother, also a monk, named Isibhatta. Having spent the rainy season in Sāvatthī, they went to take up their abode in a certain village. The people there gave them food and robes, bu …

She was the daughter of a good and wealthy merchant of Ujjenī. Having come of age, she was given in marriage to the son of a merchant in Sāketa.

For one month she lived with him as a devoted wife; th …

IsipatanaMigadayaDeer Park

An open space near Benares, the site of the famous Migadāya or Deer Park. It was eighteen leagues from Uruvelā, and when Gotama gave up his austere penances his friends, th …

Jambuka

A monk whose Theragāthā verses speak of how he practiced severe austerities for 55 year before going for refuge in the Buddha and attaining Awakening. Thag.283–286

A bhikkhunī mentioned in the Therīgāthā verses of Isidāsi, who describes Jinadattā as a learned and virtuous expert in the Vinaya. Thig.427

Jotipāla¹

The Bodhisatta born as a brahmin of Vehaliṅga in the time of Kassapa Buddha. Ghaṭīkāra was his friend and invited Jotipāla to accompany him to the Buddha, but Jotipāla refused to …

JīvāJīvanti

Daughter of Ubbirī, whose tragic death spurred Ubbirī overcome her attachment. Thig.51

A township of the Koliyans. It was while the Buddha was staying there that the Koliyan Dīghajāṇu came to see him. AN.iv.281

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Kakudha¹Kakkaṭa

A lay disciple of the Buddha who dwelt at Nādikā. When the Buddha arrived at Nādikā on his last journey, Ānanda asked him what had happened to Kakudha, who was already dead …

Kakudhā Kakuṭṭhā Kakutthā Kukuṭṭhā Kukutthā

A river near Kusinārā in which the Buddha bathed and from which he drank water before entering Kusinārā for his parinibbāna. On its bank was a mango-grove …

Kassapa¹

One of the seven Buddhas mentioned in the Canon. DN.ii.7

Among those who attained arahantship under Kassapa is mentioned Gavesī, who, with his five hundred followers, strove alwa …

Kassapagotta¹

A monk living in Vāsabhagāma in the Kāsi kingdom. He was in the habit of showing extreme hospitality to the monks who came there from other parts. Once some monks who visited …

KatamorakatissaKatamorakatissaka

One of the monks whom Devadatta incited to join him in stirring up discord among the Saṅgha, the others being Kokālika, Khaṇḍadevīputta and Samuddadatta Vin.ii.196 Vi …

…Once when the Buddha was staying in the Pāvārika-ambavana at Nāḷandā, Kevaṭṭa visited him. The interview is recorded in the…

KhattiyānīVelāmikā

Chief of the eighty-four thousand women who waited on the Bodhisatta when he was once a mighty king Mahāsudassana of Kusāvatī. SN.iii.146 DN.ii.188

A monk. He had been a disciple of the Buddha and was born in the Aviha Brahma-world, where he attained to arahantship at the moment of his birth. He is mentioned with six others, all in like circumst …

A monk, one of the associates of Devadatta, mentioned with Kokālika, Katamoraka Tissa and Samuddadatta. They helped Devadatta in his attempt to cause a rift in the Saṅgha.Vin.ii.196 Vin.iii.171 Khaṇḍa …

A river in Avīci, flowing alongside the Asipattavana. MN.iii.185

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KokālikaKokāliya

A monk, one of the chief partisans of Devadatta. Knowing the Buddha’s might, he was, at first, reluctant to join in Devadatta’s plot against him, but later allowed himself to be pers …

KorakkhattaKorakkhattiya

A naked ascetic in Uttarakā. He bellowed like a dog, walked on all fours, and licked up food with his mouth only. Sunakkhatta saw him and greatly admired him, but the Buddha …

One of the republican clans in the time of the Buddha. The Koḷiyā owned two chief settlements—one at Rāmagāma and the other at Devadaha.

Attached probably to the Koliyan central authorities, was a sp …

KoṇāgamanaKonāgamanaKanakamuniKanakāgamanaKaṇakāgamana

The second Buddha to be born in the Bhaddakappa. He was a brahman of the Kassapa clan who lived for 30,000 years. His enlightenment tree was an …

A country, one of the sixteen Great Nations.DN.ii.200 AN.i.213 During the Buddha’s time the chieftain of Kuru was called Koravya, and his discussion with the Elder Raṭṭhapāla, who was himself the scio …

The capital of the Mallas and the scene of the Buddha’s death. At that time it was a small city, “a branch-township with wattle-and-daub houses in the midst of the jungle,” and Ānanda was, at first …

A class of Asuras. They were present at the Mahāsamaya, and are spoken of as being of a fearsome shape. DN.ii.259 They are the very lowest of the Asura groups, and the Buddha warns Sunakkhatta that Ko …

Kāliṅga¹

An inhabitant of Ñātika. While staying in Ñātika, at the Giñjakāvasatha, the Buddha tells Ānanda that Kālinga was reborn after death in the Suddhavāsā, and that there he would att …

Kālāma¹

The name of a family. Mention is made of a town belonging to them in Kosala, which was called Kesaputta. The sermon preached by the Buddha on his visit to Kesaputta is justly famou …

KāsiKāsikaKāsigāmaKāsinigama

One of the sixteen Great Nations, AN.i.213 its capital being Bārāṇasī.

At the time of the Buddha, it had been absorbed into the kingdom of Kosala, and Pasenadi was king …

A hall in the Mahāvana near Vesāli. The Buddha stayed there on several occasions, and in the books are found records of various eminent persons who visited him there and of his conversations with them …

A powerful tribe of India in the time of the Buddha. They were certainly khattiyas, for on that ground they claimed a share of the Buddha’s relics. DN.ii.165

Their capital was Vesāli, and they form …

A monk whose Theragāthā verse says that, thrusting aside grasses with his chest, he will seek seclusion. Thag.27

According to the Lomasakaṅgiya Bhaddekaratta Sutta, MN.iii.199f. Candana visited Lom …

A township in Kāsī, the residence, among others, of Citta-Gahapati. SN.iv.281

It contained the Ambāṭakavana, which Citta presented as a monastery for the monks, at the head of whom was Mahānāma.

S …

A park near Rājagaha, at the foot of Gijjhakūṭa. It was a preserve where deer and game could dwell in safety. When Devadatta, wishing to kill the Buddha, hurled a rock down Gijjhakūṭa, it was stopped …

MahākaccāyanaKaccāyanaMahākaccānaKaccāna

One of the most eminent disciples of the Buddha, considered chief among expounders in full of the brief saying of the Buddha. AN.i.23 Several suttas illustrat …

MahākassapaKassapaPippali

One of the Buddha’s most eminent disciples, chief among those who upheld austere practices. AN.i.23 His personal name was Pippali, but he is usually known by his clan name K …

MahāmoggallānaMoggallānaKolita

The second of the Chief Disciples of the Buddha. He and Sāriputta went forth as disciples of Sañjaya. After some time, Sāriputta, wandering about in Rājagaha, met Assaj …

Mahāpajāpatī GotamīPajāpatī

An eminent bhikkhunī and the step-mother of the Buddha. She raised the Buddha as her own child after the death of his mother.

She is chiefly remembered as the first bhik …

The elder brother of Cūḷapanthaka. He was declared pre eminent among those skilled in the evolution of consciousness. (saññāvivatta). AN.i.24

A set of verses uttered by him in the joy of attainment …

The books contain a list of seven great lakes, situated in the Himālaya. They form the sources of the five great rivers and dry up only when four suns appear in the world. These seven lakes are Anotat …

The Bodhisatta born as king of Kusāvati. DN.ii.169ff.

MakkhaliGosāla

One of the six heretical teachers contemporaneous with the Buddha. He held that there is no cause, either ultimate or remote, for the depravity of beings or for their rectitude. The at …

The name of a people and their country.

The country is included in the sixteen Great Nations of the Buddha’s time. The kingdom, at that time, was divided into two parts, having their respective capit …

A class of devas. Beings who die devoted to some idea are born in their world—e.g., a Nigaṇṭha who will take only warm water and would rather die than take it cold. MN.i.376

One of the sixteen disciples of Bāvarī who visited the Buddha. His question to the Buddha was as to how various ills originated in the world, and the Buddha’s answer, that it was through attachment. S …

MettajiMattaji

A monk whose Theragāthā verse extols the Buddha. Thag.94

A park near Indapatta, where Raṭṭhapāla Thera stayed. MN.ii.65

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Migajāla

A monk whose Theragāthā verses speak in praise of the eightfold path. Thag.417–422

The Saṃyutta Nikāya SN.iv.35f. contains two discussions which he had with the Buddha; the second was a t …

A woman follower of the Buddha. She was the daughter of Pūraṇa, chamberlain of Pasenadi, and niece of Isidatta. AN.iii.347 AN.v.137

Mittā

A bhikkhunī whose Therīgāthā verses speak of how she was formerly attached to the idea of performing rites on the uposatha days aspiring for heavenly rebirth. Thig.31–32

A Paribbājaka. He once visited the Buddha at Veḷuvana and questioned him regarding predestination. The Buddha explains to him that suffering arises from various causes—bile, phlegm, wind, bodily humou …

MāluṅkyāputtaMāluṅkyaputtaMālukyaputta

The Theragāthā contains two sets of verses attributed to him. One set speaks of the dangers of craving and encourages effort. Thag.399–404 The second set speaks …

MāraNamuciKaṇhaAdhipatiAntakaPamattabandhuPāpimā

Generally regarded as the personification of Death, the Evil One, the Tempter. Sometimes known as the Dark One (Kaṇha). Snp.355 MN.i.377 DN.ii.262 T …

Wife of Nakulapitā. They were householders of Suṃsumāragiri in the Bhagga-country. When the Buddha visited the village and stayed at Bhesakalāvana, they went to see him. They immediately fell at his …

Husband of Nakulamātā. They were householders of Suṃsumāragiri in the Bhagga-country. When the Buddha visited the village and stayed at Bhesakalāvana, they went to see him. They immediately fell at h …

Nanda¹Vaccha

Mentioned in a list of well known leaders of the Ajivakas, the others being Kisa Saṅkicca and Makkhali Gosāla. MN.i.524 They were declared by Purāṇa Kassapa, in his classifica …

Nandaka¹

Once, at the Buddha’s request, he preached a sermon to the nuns; on the first day they became sotāpannas, and, on the second, five hundred of them attained arahantship. MN.iii.270 …

Nandiya¹

He belonged to a Sākiyan family of Kapilavatthu, and was called Nandiya because his birth brought bliss. He left the world at the same time as Anuruddha, Kimbila and the others, a …

Nigrodhārāma¹

A grove near Kapilavatthu, where a residence was provided for the Buddha. Vin.i.82 There Mahāpajāpati Gotamī first asked permission for women to enter the Order. This was ref …

Hell. The Saṃyutta and Aṅguttara Nikāyas and the Sutta Nipāta contain a list of hells: Abbuda, Nirabbuda, Ababa, Aṭaṭa, Ahaha, Kumuda, Sogandhika, Uppala, Puṇḍarīka, Paduma. SN.i.149 AN.v.173 Snp.p.12 …

He once lived in a forest tract in Kosala and was inclined to be indolent. A deva, noticing this, admonished him, and it is said that Nāgadatta paid heed to the warning. SN.i.200

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 …

…MN.i.376ff. with Kevaṭṭa, DN.i.211ff. and also several conversations with Asibandhakaputta. SN.ii.311–323

The Buddha visited…

A monk whose Theragāthā verse speaks of attaining happiness. Thag.63

A Brahmā who was present at the Mahāsamaya. DN.ii.260

A class of devas belonging to the Subha Devas. MN.iii.102 Beings are born among them after attaining the third jhāna.

His Theragāthā verses speak of his helping his relatives to practice generosity, so they attained a favorable rebirth. Thag.240–242

A Pacceka Buddha. MN.iii.70

Paṭācārā

A bhikkhunī whose Therīgāthā verses speak of her efforts to attain Awakening. Thig.112–116 She was declared by the Buddha to be the best among bhikkhunīs who knew the Vinaya. AN.i.25 She was …

A monk. In the Saṃyutta Nikāya SN.iv.52 he is represented as asking the Buddha if it were possible, by means of any of the senses, to recognize and proclaim the past Buddhas. The Buddha replies in the …

PilindavacchaPilindivacchaPilindiyavacchaPilindaPilindiPilindiya

A monk whose enigmatic Theragāthā verse speaks of what has come and not departed. Thag.9 Certain devas who had been born in the deva w …

Nephew and pupil of Bāvarī. At the time that he visited the Buddha with the other disciples he was 120 years old and very feeble. At the end of his discussion with the Buddha, as recorded in the Piṅgi …

Purāṇa¹

A monk who lived in Dakkhiṇāgiri. It is said that when he visited Rājagaha after the holding of the First Council, he was asked to give his approval to the “findings” of the same. …

A tree in Tāvatiṃsā, which grew in the Nandanavana. The devas eagerly watch each stage of development of leaf and flower, and each stage is marked by great rejoicings. AN.iv.117f.

A naked ascetic of Vesāli who went about claiming to have greater mystic powers than the Buddha, and thereby much impressed Sunakkhatta. Pātikaputta had prophesied that, after death, the Licchavi gene …

…that he preached the Kevaṭṭa Sutta, the Sampasādanīya Sutta and the Upāli Sutta. Among those who visited the Buddha there are mentioned…

The name of a dyer; perhaps a class name. MN.i.385

Chief of those who had left the world through faith. AN.i.24 He was born at Thullakoṭṭhita in the Kuru country as the son of a very wealthy councillor and was called by his family name of Raṭṭhapāla. …

Revata¹Khadiravaniya

An eminent disciple of the Buddha, declared by him foremost among forest dwellers. AN.i.24

His Theragāthā verses appear under two names. As Khadiravaniya he admonishe …

Son and successor of King Disampati. On the death of his father Reṇu, with the advice and co operation of his chief steward Jotipāla, who was also his great friend, divided his kingdom into seven part …

RāhulaRāhulabhadda

Only son of Gotama Buddha. When the Buddha visited Kapilavatthu for the first time after his Enlightenment and accepted Suddhodana’s invitation, Rāhula’s mother sent the boy to the …

A monk whose Theragāthā verses speak of how, when he saw a woman’s rotting corpse in the cemtery, at first lust arose, then he mindfully overcame his defilements. Thag.315–319

A city, the capital of Māgadha.

The place was called Giribbaja (mountain stronghold) because it was surrounded by five hills—Paṇḍava, Gijjhakūṭa, Vebhāra, Isigili and Vepulla. It is said MN.iii.68 th …

A class of Devas, present at the preaching of the Mahāsamaya Sutta. DN.ii.260

SakkaVatrabhūVāsavaMaghavāMāghaPurindadaSahassakkhaSahassanettaSujampatiKosiya

Almost always spoken of as chief of the devas. The Saṃyutta Nikāya SN.i.229 contains a list of his names.

• Maghavā, be …

Sakulā¹

The foremost among nuns in the divine eye. AN.i.25 Her Therīgāthā verses say that while still living in the household, she heard the Dhamma taught by a monk, and then saw the Dhamm …

Samiddhi

Once, while he was at Silāvati musing on his good fortune as a monk, Māra tried to terrify him. Samiddhi told the Buddha of this, but the Buddha asked him to stay on where he was. He obeyed, …

A monk whom Devadatta persuaded to join him in trying to bring about schism in the Order.Vin.ii.196 Vin.iii.171 He was a favourite of Thullanandā. Vin.iv.66

A monk whose Theragāthā verse speaks of attaining a perception of the Buddha under a fig tree. Thag.217–218

Overmastered by corrupt habits of mind and character, for twenty five years he was unable to develop concentration. This so distressed him that he was about to commit suicide, when, inward vision sudd …

The king of the Kālingas in the time of Reṇu. His purohita was Jotipāla, and his capital, Dantapura. DN.ii.236

SattambaSattambaka

A shrine near Vesāli. DN.ii.102 Ud.vi.1 SN.v.259 AN.iv.309 It was to the west of Vesāli. DN.iii.9

25.99693, 85.135113shrine

A cave in Rājagaha, on the slope of Mount Vebhāra. Once, when the Buddha was staying there, he gave to Ānanda the opportunity of asking him to live for an eon, but Ānanda, because of his un-mindfulne …

A group of monks in the Buddha’s time, who seem to have incurred the enmity of the Chabbaggīyas. The latter turned them out of a vihāra as soon as they had prepared it, and were violent towards them …

Sañjaya¹

A monk whose Theragāthā verse says that since going forth he has not had any hate. Thag.48

Sañjaya²

In the Kaṇṇakatthala Sutta Viḍūḍabha tells the Buddha that it was …

A brahmin of Aṅguttarāpa. He was a great friend of Keṇiya, the Jaṭila, and visited him when Keṇiya was making preparations to entertain the Buddha. Having heard the word “Buddha” from Keṇiya, Sela was …

SigālakamātāSiṅgālakamātāSigālamātāSiṅgālamātā

She was declared chief of nuns who had attained release by faith. AN.i.25

SikhīArindama

A Buddha of a past age.DN.ii.7 DN.iii.195f. SN.ii.9

• He was born in the Nisabha pleasance in Aruṇavatī.
• His father was the khattiya Aruṇa and his mother Pabhāvatī.
• His wife wa …

Soṇa¹

A Thera, declared chief of those possessing clear utterance. AN.i.24 He lived in Avantī, where he met Mahākaccāna and was later ordained by him, after much difficulty assembling the …

Soṇā¹

An eminent lay woman, disciple of the Buddha. AN.iv.348

Soṇā²Bahuputtikā

A Therī. She was declared foremost among nuns for capacity of effort. She had ten sons and daugh …

Subhā¹

A group of Brahmās; the group includes the Parittasubhā, the Appamāṇasubhā and the Subhakiṇhā. MN.iii.102

Subhā²Kammāradhītā

The daughter of a rich goldsmith of Rājagah …

Sudatta¹

A lay disciple of Nādikā who had become a sakadāgāmin. DN.ii.92 SN.v.356f.

Sudatta²

A devaputta who visited the Buddha at Jetavana and spoke two stanzas on the va …

The “Pure Abodes”; a name given to a group of Brahma-worlds—the five highest Rūpa worlds—consisting of Avihā, Atappā, Sudassā, Sudassī and Akaniṭṭhā. DN.iii.237

There anāgāmīs are born, and there th …

A monk whose Theragāthā verse speaks of going forth after one rainy season, then attaining the Dhamma. Thag.24

Sujātā¹

The foremost laywoman in being first to go for refuge. DN.ii.135 AN.i.26

Sujātā²

A lay woman of Ñātikā. The Buddha said that she had become a sotāpanna and had thus as …

Sumana¹

A monk whose Theragāthā verses speak of having accomplished all that he was aksed to do. Thag.330–334

Sumana²Cūḷasumana

A monk whose Theragāthā verses speak of ordaini …

She was the daughter of King Koñca of Mantāvatī. Her Therīgāthā verses, of which she has the greatest number of any of the nuns, speak of the emptiness of the home life and the advantages of going for …

A Licchavi prince of Vesāli. He was, at one time, a member of the Order and the personal attendant of the Buddha, but was later converted to the views of Korakkhattiya and went about defaming the Budd …

A monk of Rājagaha. One day, as he walked through the street, a woman asked him to stop for a moment that she might worship him, and, raising the end of his robe, took his penis into her mouth. A doub …

Sundarīnandā¹

Younger sister of Thullanandā; she had two other sisters, Nandā and Nandavatī. Sāḷha Migāranattā seduced her, and she was proclaimed guilty of a Pārājika offence. Vin.iv.21 …

Suppiya¹

A Paribbājaka. He was the teacher of Brahmadatta. It was the discussion between these two, in the Ambalaṭṭhikā park, regarding the virtues of the Buddha, his Dhamma and his Order, …

SuriyavaccasāBhaddā

A Gandhabba maiden, daughter of Timbaru.

When she went to dance before Sakka, Pañcasikha saw her and fell in love with her, but she favoured Mātali’s son Sikhaṇḍī.

Later she hea …

A monks whose Theragāthā verses speak of attaining the goal of the spiritual life. Thag.135–136

A village in Kosala where Isidatta and Purāṇa once stayed. SN.v.348

A monk whose Theragāthā verse speaks of the end of rebirth. Thag.90

Sāmā¹

A bhikkhunī whose Therīgāthā verses speak of how she could not find peace after going to the monastery five times, then later attained the end of suffering. Thig.37–38

Sāmā^{2</s …}

One of the chief consorts of King Udena. In the Udāna it is said that she was the head of 500 women of the harem of the King who perished in afire, all of whom had attained the Dhamma. Ud.vii.10

Sāmā …

Sāḷha¹Migāranattā

He once visited Nandaka Thera with Pekkhuniya’s grandson, Rohana. AN.i.193f. He built a vihāra for the nuns and Sundarīndā was appointed to supervise the work. As a r …

A monk whose Theragāthā verse speaks of attaining his goal and abandoning pride. Thag.60

Sīvali was declared by the Buddha AN.i.24 pre-eminent among recipients of gifts.

SūkarakhaSūkarakhataSūkarakhatala

A cave on the side of Gijjhakūṭa, where the Buddha stayed. There he preached the Dīghanakha Sutta to Dīghanakha. Sāriputta was also present, and the sutta led to his …

Messenger of Vessavaṇa. DN.iii.201

ThūlūBumūBūmūThulūKhulūKhūlūKhuhū

The name of a gotta. The village of Uttarakā belonged to them, and when the Buddha was staying there with Sunakkhatta, the latter was greatly taken up with the pra …

Tissa¹

One of the two chief disciples of Vipassī Buddha. DN.ii.4

Tissa²

A monk who was reborn as a Brahmā with great iddhi-powers. Moggallāna visited him soon after his bir …

The fourth of the six deva worlds. AN.i.210

Four hundred years of human life are equal to one day of the Tusita world and four thousand years, so reckoned, is the term of life of a deva born in Tusit …

A lay disciple of Ñātika who died and was reborn in the Suddhāvāsa, there to attain Nibbāna. SN.v.358 DN.ii.92

Udaya¹

A brahmin of Sāvatthī. One day the Buddha came to his house and he filled the Buddha’s bowl with the food prepared for his own use. Three days in succession the Buddha came, and Uda …

UddakaRāmaputta

One of the teachers under whom Gotama, after leaving the world and before he became the Buddha, received instruction. Uddaka taught him the doctrine which had been realised and procla …

Udena Cetiya Udenacetiya

A shrine of pre-Buddhistic worship, to the east of Vesāli.

It is mentioned with other shrines at Vesāli—Gotamaka, Sārandada, Sattamba, Cāpāla and Bahuputta—all of which are …

Udāyī¹LāludāyīPaṇḍita Udāyī

There were at least two monks called Udāyī, and it is not always possible to be sure which one is meant. When the Buddha preached the Nāgopama Sutta, AN.iii.344 …

He once visited the Buddha and told him how he rivalled in power and wealth the seṭṭhi Migāra, grandson of Rohana. He was worth one hundred thousand in gold alone, to say nothing of silver. The Buddha …

UggahaMeṇḍakanattā

The grandson of the banker Meṇḍaka; he lived in Bhaddiya. Once when the Buddha was staying in the Jātiyāvana at Bhaddiya, Uggaha invited him and three monks to a meal at his house. …

Upaka¹

An Ājivaka whom the Buddha met on his way between Gayā and the Bodhi Tree, after he set out from Isipatana for the preaching of the First Sermon. Upaka questioned the Buddha on his …

UpavattaUpavattana

The sāla-grove of the Mallas of Kusināra, on the further side of the Hiraññavatī. This was the last resting-place of the Buddha on his last tour, and here he passed away, lying …

A monk who was occasionally the attendant of the Buddha, and who features in a number of discourses. Once when the Buddha was attacked by cramp, Upavāna, with the help of his lay-friend Devahita, obt …

The name of the Elephant Treasure of the Cakkavatti Mahāsudassana. He was “all white, sevenfold firm (sattappatiṭṭha), wonderful in power, flying through the sky.”. DN.ii.174 MN.iii.173f.

Upāli ¹

One of the most eminent of the Buddha’s immediate disciples. He belonged to a barber’s family in Kapilavatthu and entered the service of the Sākiyan princes. When Anuruddha and his …

UruvelāSenānigamaUruvelapattana

A locality on the banks of the Nerañjara, in the neighbourhood of the Bodhi-tree at Buddhagayā. MN.i.166 The place chosen by the Bodhisatta for his penances was calle …

UruvelākassapaKassapa

One of three brothers, the Tebhātika-Jatilas, living at Uruvelā. After initial resistance, all became the Buddha’s followers. He lived on the banks of the Nerañjara with five h …

Usabha ¹

Going out one day from his cave after the rains, he saw the loveliness of the woods and mountains and reflected, “These trees and creepers, though unconscious, yet by the season’s …

Uttamā¹

A bhikkhunī whose verses in the Therīgāthā tell of her repeated struggles before realizing awakening. Thig.42–44

Uttamā²

A bhikkhunī whose verses in the Therīgāthā tel …

Uttarakā²

A village of the Thūlūs. The Buddha once stayed there and Sunakkhatta was in his company. At that time Korakkhattiya was also staying there. DN.iii.6

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A monk whose Theragāthā verse tell of how he overcame his desire and confusion and attained arahantship. Thag.252–254

A wanderer who later became an arahant Thera. Several conversations he had with the Buddha are mentioned in the books. For details see the Tevijja Vacchagotta-, Aggi Vacchagotta-, Mahā Vacchagotta- …

A monk whose Theragāthā verse speaks of the ease of attaining Nibbana for one who practices well. Thag.71

The name of a country and of its people. It was one of the sixteen Great Nations. The inhabitants appear to have consisted of several confederate clans of whom the Licchavī and the Videhā were the chi …

Vappa ¹

One of the group of five monks who practiced with the Bodhisatta before his Awakening, and who were his first monastic followers. Vappa was disappointed when the Buddha began takin …

A brahmin, chief minister of Ajātasattu. He and Sunidha were in charge of the fortifications of Pāṭaligāma, built against the Vajjī. Vin.i.228 Ud.viii.6 DN.ii.72ff.

At Ajātasattu’s suggestion, Vass …

One of the five hills surrounding Rājagaha. MN.iii.68 In this hill was the Sattapaṇṇiguhā, where the first Convocation was held. Vin.ii.76 The river Tapodā rose in a lake at the foot of Vebhāra.

25.0 …

A town in which the Buddha once spent the rainy season at the invitation of the brahmin Verañja. Verañja visits the Buddha at the foot of the Naḷerupucimanda, where he is staying, and asks him a serie …

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 river in the Great Hell. SN.i.21 Snp.674 It may be the same as the great “Caustic River” referred to in the Devadatta Sutta. MN.iii.185 Its waters are sharp and bitter, Snp.674 and the river flows b …

Veḷuvana¹Veṇuvana

A park near Rājagaha, the pleasure garden of Bimbisāra. When the Buddha first visited Rājagaha, after his Enlightenment, he stayed at the Latthivanuyyāna. Vin.i.35 The da …

Vimala¹

One of the four friends of Yasa who, following the latter’s example, joined the Order and attained arahantship. Vin.i.18f.

Vimala²

A monk whose Theragāthā verse spea …

Visākha¹

Husband of Dhammadinnā. After Dhammadinnā had joined the Order, she left the city and retired into the country, returning to Rājagaha after she had attained arahantship. Visākha, …

Visākhā¹

. Thig.13

Visākhā²

The chief among the female lay disciples of the Buddha and declared by him to be foremost among those who ministered to the Order. AN.i.26 She is c …

Yasa ¹

He was the son of a very wealthy treasurer of Benares, and was brought up in great luxury, living in three mansions, according to the seasons and surrounded with all kinds of pleasu …

While journeying in the company of Sabhiya, he came to Sāvatthī, where he was present at the discussion between Sabhiya and the Buddha. It was his purpose to try and discover flaws in the Buddha’s arg …

YasojaYasojoti

The Udāna mentions Ud.iii.3 how Yasoja and five hundred of his companions went to see the Buddha at Jetavana. There they stood talking to the monks who lived there and made a great upr …

A brahmin, father of Koṇāgamana Buddha. DN.ii.7

ĀjīvakāĀjīvikā

A class of naked ascetics, Vin.i.291 followers of Makkhali Gosāla, regarded, from the Buddhist point of view, as the worst of sophists. Numerous references to the Ājīvakas are to be fo …

One of the principal disciples of the Buddha. He was a first cousin of the Buddha and was deeply attached to him. Ānanda entered the Order in the second year of the Buddha’s ministry, together with ot …

ĀḷārakālāmaĀḷāraKālāma

One of the two teachers to whom Gotama, after his renunciation, first attached himself, the other being Uddaka Rāmaputta. In the Ariyaparivesāna Sutta MN.i.163–165; also M.i.24 …

éntelenség, magátlanság

négy nemes igazság

(or mfn.) (of) the size of a cloud

(or mfn.) (of) the size of a cloud

1. fetches, brings; offers; brings forward, advances; brings near, fetches for oneself, partakes of.
2. (counter-)attacks.

goes to, visits; takes oneself to; attains

goes to, visits; takes oneself to; attains

resulting; produced; reborn

producing, causing to come into being.

results (from); is produced; becomes, is reborn.

produces; causes to come into being

with thoughts calmed; with self quenched.

striking, attacking.

striking, attacking.

1. (act.) having rained.
2. (pass.) rained upon

excited, impassioned.

successfully attained.

offense; (or attachment).

1. sticks, is attached; is occupied; lingers.
2. is offended, takes offense; is hostile

reaches, attains; is able, capable (of); is adequate; masters; endures, bears.

reaches, attains; is able, capable (of); is adequate; masters; endures, bears.

1. (mfn.)

   1. (act.) having understood; having attained complete understanding; become a Buddha.
   2. (pass.) completely understood, realized

2. (n.) complete understanding.

attains perfect or complete understanding (of); becomes a Buddha.

attains; grasps; understands.

ordered, controlled.

attaches oneself to; clings to.

1. sticking to, attached to.
2. taking offense, being hostile.

1. sticking to, attached to.
2. taking offense, being hostile.

scorched; distressed, exhausted (by heat).

goes against, attacks; approaches.

gets to; attains, acquires; finds; understands.

acquisition, attainment, esp. attainment of a religious goal; understanding; realization.

1. (mfn.) (pass.) attained; found; understood.
2. (n.) attaining; understanding

attains, finds; understands.

above measure, excessive; very great; greater.

excessive leanness; serious emaciation

falls into; attains.

falls on; rushes; against; attacks.

comes on; moves over; overwhelms.

day (followed by an other word in compounds it takes the form aho, as in ahoratta)

mushroom

day and night.

continually studying; learning

continually studying; learning

day and night; continually

fallen upon or rushed at.

(from ajjhattaṃ) inner; subjective; within oneself; what is internal; oneself.

inwardly and outwardly; in regard to oneself and others

concerning oneself in oneself; inwardly, personally; in regard to oneself (opp. bahiddhā).

immersed in, intimate

1. (act.) attached to, grasping; being bent on.
2. (pass.) grasped, caught

competent

reddened (with lac).

adorned and decorated; fully adorned

comes close to; settles down on; leans against; sticks to, is attached (to, acc. or loc)

sticking to, attached to; come close to; resorting to

comes close to; settles down on; leans against; sticks to, is attached (to, acc. or loc)

not having attained complete understanding; not (yet) a Buddha

lack of attainment

not attained, what has not been attained

not experienced; not attained

not the self, not a soul

dependent; not independent

dissatisfied, displeased, disgruntled; troubled, worried

not the self, not a soul

not belonging to oneself

looking upon as not the self, not considering there is a self.

looking upon as not the self, not considering there is a self.

whose mind has no firm convictions

freedom from gluttony; moderation in eating

an offence committed in the meantime (i.e. before the expiration of a parivāsa or mānatta period)

experiences, enjoys, suffers; partakes of, has a share in; attains, is equal to; is able; suffices

experiences, enjoys, suffers; partakes of, has a share in. attains, is equal to; is able; suffices

(-ikā)n. not distracted; not insane

free from attachment; free from acquisitions (which lead to rebirth)

not attached to; not sticking to

turns or moves round after or along with; keeps on moving.

follows, pursues; falls in; falls upon, attacks.

1. (pass.) attained, reached.
2. (act.) having attained, reached; arrived (at)

attainment; accomplishment

keeps moving on after (another) or in succession; continues, maintains

additionally ordered or ruled

1. (pass.) attained, reached.
2. (act.) having attained, reached; arrived (at)

having reached (old) age, old

attainment; accomplishment

additionally ordered or ruled

reaches, attains; falls to one’s lot.

following; attacking.

following; attacking.

attached or devoted to; fond of.

(-ikā)n. following, attending, faithful (to); agreeing with; a follower, partisan, adherent.

follows, attends, sides with; conforms with, practices; imitates.

causes to go on after, keeps in motion; maintains, continues

making conform to.

side-piece of a bhikkhu’s robe.

procedure in examination

ensnared, entwined (by).

fmn. following

moves after, follows.

not grasping; free from attachment

1. (mfn.) not come, not yet arrived; future; not learnt, not attained; not attested.
2. (n.) the future

who was not attained the goal

~inī feminine one who does not return (to this world; one who has reached the third stage, and will be reborn only in a Brahma world, and attain arahatship there)

~inī feminine one who does not return (to this world; one who has reached the third stage, and will be reborn only in a Brahma world, and attain arahatship there)

1. (mfn.) free from clinging or attachment; free from longing; empty of desire.
2. (m.n.) freedom from clinging or attachment, independence

pregnant; a pregnant woman.

free from attachment; free from acquisitions (which lead to rebirth)

not attached to; not sticking to

one who takes away or removes.

one who takes away or removes.

(one) who has no bowl or (bhikkhu’s) robe.

of small measure, little, insignificant

(~ā & mattikā1)n. & neuter

1. (mfn.) little, slight, insignificant.
2. (n.) a trifle; a little thing

small matter; a trifle

having reached; having attained; having pervaded.

the state or condition of an arahat; arahatship

the path of arahatship, the progress towards arahatship

the fruit, the fulfillment of arahatship (i.e. nibbāna)

with sores on all limbs.

forest of trees with swords or knives for leaves

full of confidence; encouraged

full of confidence; encouraged

excessive gazing upon.

transgressing; attacking, injuring.

transgressing; attacking, injuring.

overcoming

goes beyond, escapes from; exceeds, overwhelms; goes too far; transgresses (against).

atta-d-attha

m.a one’s own profit or interest; one’s own goal

atta-n-tapa

mfn. self-mortifying; hurting oneself

supporting only oneself

bodily form, body; existence as an individual; living being

the becoming reborn as an individual; reincarnation; type of body or existence

having a body

having a body

with oneself as the fourth; with three others

with the self, with oneself as master; controlled by the self

dependent upon oneself (only); independent

with oneself as the second; with a companion

relying on oneself; with oneself as an island, a refuge.

blaming oneself; reproaching oneself

blaming oneself; reproaching oneself

self-destruction

for one’s own sake

born from oneself proceeding from oneself; one’s offspring.

self-mortification.

1. (mfn.) (sometimes confused with atthakāma) wishing one’s own (spiritual) benefit.
2. (m.) one’s own desire, lust; the saṅghādisesa offences of (praising the ministering to one’s) lust

action by oneself; a personal service

pleased; content; willing.

causing death to oneself

dogma about the self; belief in an (enduring) self or soul

watching oneself

watching oneself

fear of self-reproach

intent upon oneself or one’s own interest

intent upon oneself or one’s own interest

belonging to one ‘s self one’s own; belonging to an (enduring) self or soul; what belongs to one’s self; what belongs to an (enduring) self or soul.

acquisition of a self; type of personal existence

attarūpa¹

mfn. very complete; (or quite personal)

attarūpa²

mfn. or neuter fitting for oneself; just oneself; ~ena, ~ehi, by oneself, for one’s own sake

one’s own profit or interest; one’s own goal

concerned with one’s own goal

supported by one’s own earnings

one’s own distress

grasping the theory of an (enduring) self or soul

knowing oneself

wise only for oneself; concerned with oneself only (so sometimes commentaries); (same as atta)

looking (only) after one’s own profit or interest; (who is) wise as to his own advantage

controlled by oneself

taking upon oneself; a legal process (of the saṅgha) initiated by oneself

is used with fpp as if nom. n.

pushing, hitting.

an iron bowl

an iron strip or band

an iron bowl

an iron strip or band

change, alteration; change of mind; doubt, anxiety

midnight

midnight

of small size, atomic; least

(temporary) platform; scaffolding.

(the place for) dealing with lawsuits; seats of judgment, courtroom

one of the parties in a lawsuit

one of the parties in a lawsuit

cry of distress

aṭṭhacattālīsaaṭṭhacattālīsaṃaṭṭhacattāḷīsaaṭṭhacattāḷīsaṃ

num. forty eight

aṭṭhacattālīsaaṭṭhacattālīsaṃaṭṭhacattāḷīsaaṭṭhacattāḷīsaṃ

num. forty eight

consisting of eight items

rubbing board?; a post incised with squares and used as a scrubber by bathers.

(from aṭṭa) is distressed, pained, disgusted.

1. a wheel of a cart or carriage; the pattern of a wheel on the soles of the feet (one of the marks of a mahāpurisa)
2. a circular missile, a discus; the “wheel” of sovereignty, of authority; sway.
3. …

wheeled device for raising water from a well, a noria.

(one) who turns the wheel afterwards, who keeps the wheels rolling.

flat leather thong?

of cajati

1. (mfn.) left, abandoned; got rid of; renounced, given up; given away.
2. (n.) abandoning; leaving; ~ena, adv., with renunciation; giving up; absolutely giving up

(concerning) a group of 40

cattārivassa-sahassāyuka

mfn. having a lifespan of 4, 000 years.

forty.

having a lifespan of 640 years.

having a lifespan of 40, 000 years.

having a lifespan of 40 years.

forty.

num (nom./acc. m. cattaro, caturo; n. cattari; f. catasso (and caturo); instr. m.n. catūhi, catuhi (and catubbhi); f. catūhi, catuhi; gen./dat. m.n. catunnaṃ; f. catunnaṃ; loc. …

(that) which has four postures, or four limbs, or four attainments (i.e. the body); (n.) the four attainments or means.

forty four.

forty four.

forty four.

forty four.

forty four.

forty four.

num (nom./acc. m. cattaro, caturo; n. cattari; f. catasso (and caturo); instr. m.n. catūhi, catuhi (and catubbhi); f. catūhi, catuhi; gen./dat. m.n. catunnaṃ; f. catunnaṃ; loc. …

who has become in control of his thoughts, who has attained mastery over his thoughts.

the freeing or freedom of thought (from defilement or obstruction) by advanced stages of meditation (a state attained temporarily in meditation and permanently with arahatship.

the turning away of the thoughts.

num. 46

num. 46

num. 46

stiffness, paralysis, rigidity (through fear)

num. seventy six.

umbrella; sunshade; a parasol; a parasol erected on a thūpa; a parasol as a sign of sovereignty; esp. as part of the regalia of a king; chattaṃ ussāpetuṃ, to raise the royal parasol (equivalent to …

parasol.

the handle of a sunshade.

carrying a parasol.

with a parasol in one’s hand.

of chaṭṭeti

(a period of) six nights.

indeclinable for six nights at the most.

for six nights.

or neuter a long time.

for a long time.

, abstr. long duration.

for a long time.

who has gone the mānatta penance.

strip of cloth.

those who hold the chowry and parasol.

winding to the right.

slowness; hesitation; delaying.

mad; foolish; wild; arrogant.

with strong gatehouses and watchtowers.

, abstr. the state of being a deva; divinity.

the state of being a deva.

with limbs covered with prominent veins.

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 …

preaching of the universal righteousness.

group of dhammas (as good practices and attainments)

, abstr. the being legal or valid, the being according to the rule.

dhaṃsati¹

pr. 3 sg. is bold; dares to attack.

dhaṃsati²

pr. 3 sg. falls (from); is gone (from); is deprived of.

dhaṃseti¹

caus. pr. 3 sg. of dhamsati dares to attack; offends

dhaṃseti²

caus. pr. 3 sg. of dhamsati makes fall; deprives of; destroys; scatters, disperses

regular food; a guaranteed meal (for a particular person (?)

smoky darkness.

look; a glance.

(one) who has achieved insight; who has achieved (nibbana) through insight.

, abstr. the being painful or difficult.

of a double thickness; a double thickness of material; a robe of double material.

hard to attack, unassailable.

difficult to do, hard to attain; difficult to endure.

hard to attain.

hard to get beyond.

hard or dangerous to approach; difficult to attack; difficult to be met with, unparalleled.

strip of cloth.

num.

num.

num. forty two.

num. seventy two.

with two turns; with two whirlpools.

food placed before the door.

num. seventy two.

adverb for a long time.

adverb for a long time.

adverb for a long time.

length; the being long.

ekagārika¹

neuter attacking and robbing isolated houses

ekagārika²

m(fn). taking alms only from one house

71

ekatta¹

neuter abstr. the being one;

1. oneness, unity; identity; integration; a collective idea; a single concept; the single number, the singular;
2. singleness, being alone, solitarine …

having bodies of the same nature, having uniform bodies

(or n.) devoted to (or devotion to) solitariness or unity

having a notion of unity or identity; (ekattasaññi(n))

ekattasaññi(n)²

mfn. having perceptions or notions of the same nature; (ekattasaññi(n))

having a notion of unity or identity; (ekattasaññi(n))

ekattasaññi(n)²

mfn. having perceptions or notions of the same nature; (ekattasaññi(n))

living together

to be gone to; to be reached; attainable.

1. (mfn.)

   1. to be gone to; to be attained.
   2. to be traveled; to be gone along.

2. (n. impers.) one must go.

whose self is gone (to the highest pint)

the body; (pl.) the limbs of the body.

minister of finance; an accountant.

connected with, attached to, rooted in, the household (sensual) life.

connected with, attached to, rooted in, the household (sensual) life; appropriate only for the household life.

afflicted by, suffering from, the heat.

of ghaṭṭeti

of ghaṭṭita

the site of a village.

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

the sate of different degrees of development of the faculties

best of seers; or seventh of the isis.

itthatta¹

neuter the state of being thus; existence in this form; existence here.

itthatta²

neuter the state of being a woman; femaleness.

oppressed, stricken by debt

who has achieved stability in the country, whose country is stable; whose position is secure.

of jhāpita consumed, dried up; weakened

attaining to light or splendor.

, abstr. the state of being a lover; an affair.

jātaka¹

neuter a birth; a story describing a previous life of the Buddha (when he was a bodhisatta); the name of one of the nine categories (aṅgas) of the scriptures; one of the collec …

fondness, desire, for life, attachment to life.

(~ā & ~ī)n. the size of a chickpea.

1. (mfn.) woolen, made of wool.
2. (m.n.) a woollen cloth or blanket or shawl (very often ratta- or paṇḍu-); a blanket or shawl.

competent to enact an official act of the saṅgha; suitable or sufficient to enact an official act of the saṅgha

with alms-bowl in hand

“oleander leaf”, a kind of arrowhead.

(what is) to be done.

one who makes, creates, produces (+ acc. or gen.); one who acts, who does.

walking stick.

walking stick; a staff

(worn out) winnowing basket

scissors; clippers.

scissors; clippers

scissors; clippers

the constellation or lunar mansion of the Pleiades.

having done or made.

with the skin like gold, golden skinned (one of the 32 characteristics of a mahāpurisa).

whose path is black (of fire)

clump or hedge of thorns

kaṭhina

neuter a framework (covered with a mat) to which the cloth for making robes was attached while being sewn; esp. kaṭhinaṃ attharati

1. spreads or covers the kaṭhina, i.e. makes a robe u …

fisherman.

1. one of the 14 rules of conduct prescribed in the Vattakkhandhaka (Vin ii 207–231).
2. one of 82 subsidiary rules of conduct, either prescribed in the Khandhaka section of the Vinayapiṭaka citing 71 …

an attendant, a porter, an equerry; a steward.

khatta(r)²

masculine a digger; one who digs.

an attendant, a porter, an equerry; a steward.

khatta(r)²

masculine a digger; one who digs.

the knowledge or competence required of a khattiya; polity; self-interest; expediency.

the skill in polity; the branch of knowledge that is political science

khematta¹

m(fn). one who is secure, at peace

khematta²

neuter abstr. security, safety; well being; peace

abuse; insulting; verbal attack.

abuses, insults; attacks verbally

abuses, insults; attacks verbally

(one) made satisfied, drugged with milk, a baby

sunshade or umbrella made of (woven) reeds, of matting

exhilarated with the intoxication of anger

a family circle; a family generation

a family circle; a family generation

curling a ring

curling a ring

kāca¹

masculine glass; a clay for making glass.

kāca²

masculine a carrying-pole (a pole with ropes to which burdens are attached); a carrying-pole’s load

carrying-pole (a pole with ropes to which burdens are attached); a carrying-pole’s load

intoxicated with poetry-writing; in a muse of poetic inspiration

tied, bound to the body;

1. dependent on the body.
2. (what is) attached to the body

tied, bound to the body;

1. dependent on the body.
2. (what is) attached to the body

star; a heavenly body; a pattern or a group of stars or constellation through which the moon passes, one of 27 (or 28) lunar mansions; a disposition of the stars or constellations; a favorable disposi …

obscuring, occultation, of a star or a pattern or a group of stars.

with a garland of stars.

with a garland of stars.

constellation; a lunar mansion.

grandchild.

by day and night.

one who is like a grandson, who is the age or status of one’s grandson

tree; the indian beech; the tree pongamia pinnata.

grandchild.

newly dyed

the turning track of the plow

the turning track of the plow

turning the plow

naṅgalāvattani(n)²

mfn. swishing its tail

turning the plow

naṅgalāvattani(n)²

mfn. swishing its tail

dancer; an acrobat; an entertainer.

connected with, attached to, rooted in, the of renunciation; appropriate (only) to the life of renunciation.

of nibbattati

1. arisen; originated; come into being; developed.
2. removed?

with the seed removed; (or with the seed fully developed?)

arises; comes into being; appears; becomes.

nibbatti¹

caus. pr. 3 sg. of nibbattati

nibbatti²

aor. 3 sg. coming into being; origination; appearance.

constant food, food given always.

wanting, longing; attachment, fondness.

home; a (temporary) habitation; where someone or something stays or settles or is attached.

keeping to a home; clinging; attached.

keeping to a home; clinging; attached.

delighting in; attached, devoted to; intent upon.

niratta¹

mfn. the lack of an enduring self; ? the letting go (of an enduring self); ?

niratta²

neuter thrown off; let go.

.

free from belongings; from free from attachment

free from attachments; free from belongings.

free from attachment

of nissayati resorting to, inhabiting; dependent (on); leaning on; attached to, supported by; close to, connected to; resorted to

gone or come back, returned, turned back; turned away from, giving up; ceased

whose seed is inoperative?

of nivattati

(intrans.) returns, turns round, turns back; gives up; stops, ceases; tums away from.

of nivattati

of nivattati

(~antī)n. Makes to return, turn round, turn back; makes give up; makes to stop, ceases; makes to turn away from.

1. makes to return, turn round, turn back; makes give up; makes to stop, ceases; makes to turn away from.

1. settlement; a dwelling-place, a house, a home.
2. settling (on or in), attachment (to); where one settles.

given; yielded.

nānatta¹

neuter various; different; separated.

nānatta²

neuter abstr. diversity, variety; difference.

various sorts of talk, tale, trivial conversation.

having bodies of different nature, whose bodies are not uniform.

having different perceptions or notions.

having different perceptions or notions.

of various colors or appearance.

of various colors or appearance.

for whom food has been brought.

(a wife) married with a ritual involving a bowl of water.

gluttony; concern for one’s stomach

having gained firm footing.

fastened; attached.

fastens, ties on; attaches.

fastens, ties on; attaches.

piercing, striking, attacking (verbally).

omasati¹

pr. 3 sg. hurts; pierces; strikes; strikes in a downward direction; attacks verbally.

omasati²

pr. 3 sg. touches, strokes (in a downward direction).

with hands and bowl rinsed

connected with material acquisitions and attachment; (according to commentaries) forming a basis for rebirth.

(-ikā)n. lesser; insignificant; of small value or importance

entrance, way in; opening, opening for attack; weak point.

rained upon; exposed to the rain

grasping, being attached

with whirlpools or eddies

attaining to darkness.

being of such a character.

of tapati heated; hot; made red hot; molten

(~a, -ikā)n. of such a size, so large; so much; so many.

num. of tecattārīsa(ṃ)

num. of tecattārīsa(ṃ)

num. forty three.

group of 43

num. forty three.

num. of tecattārīsa(ṃ)

num. of tecattārīsa(ṃ)

, abstr. the appearance of darkness; darkness.

num. seventy three.

lying down.

lies down.

the section on lying down (Vinaya IV)

of tuvaṭṭati

(~entī)n. of tuvaṭṭati

of tuvaṭṭati

, impers. of tuvaṭṭati

palm leaf.

(-ikā)n.

massages, rubs (with unguents)

both attachments, attachment to both

height

bowl of water.

food specially prepared for a specific number of persons

attachment to, devotion to moving on (?)

rubbed; scratched

with rubbed feet, footsore

distracted; insane.

(-ikā)n. distracted; insane.

worldly possessions or belongings, acquisitions (according to commentaries including the body); attachment to such possessions (forming a basis for rebirth).

one who brings, who presents.

one who brings, who presents.

(one) having the status of preceptor; like a preceptor

upalimpati¹

pr. 3 sg. anoints; smears; defiles.

upalimpati²

pass. pr. 3 sg.

1. is smeared, is defiled (by, instr.).
2. is attached to, sticks, adheres (to, loc.)

(also upalimpati (?))

1. is smeared, is defiled (by, instr.).
2. is attached to, sticks, adheres (to, loc.)

attached to; sticking to

ties, fastens, attaches; connects (+loc. or instr.).

come into being, originated.

comes back, returns (to).

1. attainment.
2. full ordination, admission into the saṅgha.

1. reaching, attaining; having entered upon.
2. being ordained; after ordination

comes near, falls to; is found, is.

made known; instituted; (first) taught

elation; exhilaration

gone beyond, free from

goes beyond; escapes from; transgresses; oversteps.

(sometimes written as urattāḷī) beating one’s own breast

beating one’s own breast

1. obtruding, raising oneself.
2. mound (of flesh), thickness.
3. swelling.
4. abundance, prevalence, preponderance.
5. over-abundance, excess.
6. a supplementary niraya (of which there are either 16 …

accumulation, piling up; predominance, greater amount

whose meal is late in the day

(& mfn.?) an extraordinary or superhuman quality or attainment; (beyond the human norm; extraordinary)

bowl for leftovers or containing leftovers.

whatever has come into the bowl by gathering or begging, whatever comes into the alms bowl

the being of noble character; excellence, nobility

scorched and distressed by heat

skill or accomplishment; a public reputation (or skill or intellectual accomplishment)

who has attained good reputation.

the circle of relations.

(one) having the status of a teacher; like a teacher

wailing, lamenting, deploring.

the first performer, the originator

the first performer, the originator

taking, grasping; holding on to; attachment.

or masculine attached to grasping; or creature of attachment

comes, comes near; comes back, returns; reaches, attains; is recorded, is handed down by tradition.

coming, having come; attained; owing to, with reference to, by means of

1. (mfn.) come, arrived, come back; present; having reached, attained; come down, handed down, learnt.
2. (n.) arrival; coming

one who brings.

one who brings.

1. settling-place, abode; nest, lair; house, hall, shelter; repository.
2. the wish or intention to have or keep or to settle; clinging; longing, desire, attachment; intention.

settles down on; is attached to; clings, has longings.

or neuter unbaked, still unbaked; or an unbaked pot or vessel.

leaf of the āmalaka plant.

who or which has reached immovability or imperturbability

who or which has reached immovability or imperturbability

who or which has reached immovability or imperturbability

who or which has reached immovability or imperturbability

legal case or dispute concerning an offense

, id. the state of being far from.

approach; attack, attacking.

fixed or fastened to; attached to; intent on (+ loc).

attachment; clinging to.

intent on what one has taken up

intent on what one has taken up

abandoning what has been grasped

āttañjahadaṇḍa¹

mfn. who has taken a stick in hand, who has embraced violence

āttañjahadaṇḍa²

mfn. a raised stick; violence

āvatta¹

masculine (n.) turning; turning round; turning back; whirlpool, eddy

āvatta²

pp mfn.

1. turned, converted; enticed, seduced.
2. having returned; turned back (esp. to …

1. (intrans.) turns, turns to; turns round, rolls; turns back, returns (esp. to a layman’s life); winds, curls.
2. is enticed, is seduced

āvaṭṭa¹

masculine (n.) turning; turning round; turning back; whirlpool, eddy

āvaṭṭa²

pp mfn.

1. turned,…

(or mfn.) seizure, possession by a whirlpool; (or: seized by a whirlpool)

(or mfn.) seizure, possession by a whirlpool; (or: seized by a whirlpool)

turning, seducing; a seductress; a seductive sorcery.

1. (intrans.) turns, turns to; turns round, rolls; turns back, returns (esp. to a layman’s life); winds, curls.
2. is enticed, is seduced

one who makes manifest, who reveals, discloses

one who makes manifest, who reveals, discloses

instructed; ordered; enjoined

Abhiññā: The 6 ‘higher powers’, or supernormal knowledge’s, consist of 5 mundane lokiya powers attainable through the utmost perfection in mental concentration samādhi and one supra-mundane * …

Abodes: vihāra The 4 Divine abodes: brahma-vihāra The 9 abodes of beings: sattāvāsa

Adherence: parāmāsa clinging or attachment.

Akuppa-dhamma: The unshakeable state; is that of one who has attained full mastery over the absorptions jhāna. In Pug. 4 it is said: What person is unshakable? If a person gains the meditative …

Anattā: No-self, egolessness, soullessness, impersonality, absence of identity, is the last of the 3 universal characteristics of existence ti-lakkhana. This anattā doctrine, which only is t …

Anattā-saññā: Perception of no-self; of impersonality see A. VI, 104; A. VII, 48; A. X, 60; Ud. IV, 1.

Anattā-vāda: The doctrine of impersonality; see: anattā

Anattānupassanā: C ontemplation of no-self is one of the 18 chief kinds of insight see: vipassanā. See also above.

Anicca: Impermanent, transient or, as abstract noun, aniccatā impermanence or change is the first of the three universal characteristics of existence tilakkhana, which is easily observable and …

Anupubba-vihāra: the 9 ‘successive abodes’, are identical with the 9 anupubba-nirodha see: above. In A. IX, 33 they are called successive attainments anupubba - samāpatti.

Anussati: ‘recollection’, reflection, meditation, contemplation. The six recollections often described in the Suttas e.g. A. VI, 10, 25; D. 33 are:

1: Recollection of the Buddha, *buddhānussati …

Anāgāmī: T he Non-Returner is a Noble Disciple Ariya-puggala on the 3rd stage of Nobility. There are 5 classes of Non-Returners, as it is said e.g. Pug. 42-46:

A being, through the disappea …

Aparihāna-dhamma: ‘incapable of relapse’, or ‘of falling away’, namely, with regard to deliverance from some or all mental chains of existence see: samyojana. Thus all Noble Disciples are calle …

Appanā-samādhi: Absorption concentration or full concentration from apeti to fix, is the concentration existing during absorption jhāna, whilst the neighbourhood or access-concentration *upa …

Arahat: and Arahatta-magga, Arahatta-phala: see: ariya-puggala

Ariya-puggala: or simply Ariya: Noble Ones, noble persons:
The 8, Ariya = Noble Ones are those who have realized one of the 8 stages of Nobility, i.e. the 4 supra-mundane paths magga …

Asañña-satta: The unconscious beings, are a class of divine beings in the fine-material world; see: deva II. There are, Bhikkhus, divine beings known as the unconscious ones. As soon, however, …

Asmi-māna: lit.: ‘I am’-conceit, ‘ego-conceit’, may range from the coarsest pride and self-assertion to a subtle feeling of one’s distinctiveness or superiority that persists, as the 8th fette …

Atta-ditthi: - vāda: ’ ego-belief ’, ’ personality-belief ’, see: ditthi

Atta-kilamatha: Self-mortification = self-torture, is one of the two extremes to be avoided, the other extreme being addiction to sensual pleasures kāma - sukha, whilst the Noble 8-fold p …

Atta-saññā: Atta- citta & atta- ditthi: perception, thought, & view of an ego, self or soul is one of the 4 perversions vipallāsa.

Atta-vādupādāna: Attachment to the belief or view in a constant ego, self or soul, is one of the 4 kinds of clinging upādāna.

Attachments: see: parāmāsa

Attainment-concentration: appanā-samādhi, see: samādhi

Attainments: The 8 Attainments see: samāpatti

Avijjā: I gnorance, nescience, the blindness of not knowing, is synonymous with confusion moha (see mūla ), is the primary & deepest root of all evil and suffering in the world, veiling man’s …

Aññā: ‘highest knowledge’, gnosis, refers to the perfect knowledge of the Arahat Saint; see: ariya-puggala. The following passage occurs frequently in the Suttas, when a Bhikkhu indicates his a …

[[balance of mental faculties]]Balance of mental abilities: indriya samatta.

Being: living: satta, further see: puggala. - Belief in eternal personality: bhava-ditthi see: ditthi, sassata-ditthi.

Beings: The 9 worlds of: sattāvāsa.

Belief: blind: see: indriya-samatta.

[[bhojane mattaññutā]]Bhojane mattaññutā: ‘knowing the measure in eating’.

Now, o Bhikkhus, the Bhikkhu wisely reflecting partakes of his foodfood, neither for pastime, nor for indulgence, nor to …

Bhāvanā: ‘mental development’ lit. ‘calling into existence, producing’ is what in English is generally but rather vaguely called ‘meditation’. One has to distinguish 2 kinds: development of tranqu …

Bodhisatta: ‘Enlightenment Being’, is a being destined to Buddhahood, a future Buddha. According to the traditional belief a Bodhisatta, before reaching his last birth as a Buddha on this earth, i …

Bojjhanga: ‘the 7 factors of enlightenment’, are: awareness or mindfulness sati-sambojjhanga, sati, investigation of the law dhamma-vicaya-sambojjhanga energy viriya-sambojjhanga, *vir …

Cakka: ‘wheel’, is one of the seven ‘precious possessions’ ratana of a righteous World Emperor cakkavatti ‘He who owns the Wheel,’ cf. D. 26, and symbolizes conquering progress and expanding s …

[[cycle of existence]]Cycle of existence: see: samsarā vatta

Eating: knowing the measure in bhojane mattaññutā.

Ego-entity: attā

Egolessness: anattā

Eka-vokāra-bhava: one-group existence, is the existence of the unconscious beings asañña-satta as they possess only the materiality-group. Cf. catu-vokāra-bhava pañca-vokāra-bhava.

Ends: ‘attaining two ends simultaneously’; sama - sīsī.

Enlightenment: bodhi - The 7 elements of e.: bojjhanga - A being destined for e.: Bodhisatta.

Equanimity: upekkhā = tatra - majjhattatā. - Knowledge consisting in e. with regard to all constructions, see: visuddhi VI, 8. - Indulging in e., see: manopavicāra

[[equilibrium of mental faculties]]Equilibrium of mental abilities: indriya-samatta.

Hadaya-vatthu: ‘heart as physical base’ of mental life. The heart, according to the commentaries as well as to the general Buddhist tradition, forms the physical base vatthu of consciousness In …

Iddhi-pāda: ‘roads to power’ or success are the 4 following qualities,,for as guides, they indicate the road to power connected therewith; and because they form, by way of preparation, the roads …

Impersonality: see: anattā - Contemplation of: see: vipassanā 3.

Indriya: ‘abilities’, is a name for 22, partly physical, partly mental, phenomena often treated in the Suttas as well as in the Abhidhamma. They are:

6 Bases āyatana:

1. eye: …

Indriya-samatta: ‘equilibrium, balance, or harmony of abilities’, relates to the 5 spiritual abilities: faith, energy, awareness or mindfulness, concentration and understanding see: indriya 15\ …

Javana: fr. javati to impel: ‘impulsion’, is the phase of full cognition in the cognitive series, or perceptual process citta-vīthi see. viññāna-kicca occurring at its climax, if the respe …

Jhāna: ‘absorption’ meditation refers chiefly to the four meditative absorptions of the fine-material sphere rūpa-jjhāna or rūpāvacara - jjhāna avacara They are achieved through the att …

Paccavekkhana-ñāna: ‘retrospective knowledge’, refers to the recollected mental image obtained in concentration, or to any inner experience just passed, as for instance, any absorption jhāna, o …

Pada-parama: ‘one for whom the words are the utmost attainment’.;Whoever, though having learned much, speaking much, knowing many things by heart, and discoursing much, has not penetrated the tru …

Paramī: Pāramitā: ‘perfection’. Ten qualities leading to Buddhahood: 1 perfection in giving or generosity; dāna - pāramī 2 morality sīla - p 3 renunciation nekkhamma - p 4 understan …

Parihāna-dhamma: ‘liable to decline’.;Now, someone reaches the attainments absorptions: jhāna of the fine-material or immaterial sphere see: avacara But he does not reach them according to h …

Parāmāsa: ‘adherence’, attachment, ‘misapprehension’, is according to Vis.M XXII a name for wrong views; in that sense it occurs in Dhs. 1174 ff. - See sīlabbata-parāmāsa.

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 …

Patipannaka: ’ Path -attainer’, is he who had reached one of the 4 supra-mundane paths of Nobility see: ariya-puggala - App.

Patisambhidā: ‘analytical knowledge’ or ‘discrimination’, is of 4 kinds: analytical knowledge of the true meaning attha-patisambhidā of the law dhamma - patisambhidā, of language nirutti …

[[patta-pindik’anga]]Patta-pindik’anga: the ‘exercise of the bowl-eater’, is one of the 13 ascetic purification-exercises dhutānga, consisting in the vow of using only the food-bowl for eat …

Patti-dāna: lit. ‘giving of the acquired’, i.e. ‘transference of merit.’ Though in the older texts very seldom mentioned e.g. A VII, 50, it is, however, a widespread custom in all Buddhist countr …

Pañca-vokāra-bhava: ‘five-group existence’, is a name for existence in the sense-sphere kāmāvacara or in the fine-material sphere rūpāvacara avacara since all the 5 groups of existence …

Paññā: ‘understanding, knowledge, understanding, insight’, comprises a very wide field. The specific Buddhist knowledge or understanding, however, as part of the Noble 8-fold path magga to deli …

Paññā-vimutti: ‘deliverance through understanding’ or understanding’, signifies, according to Com. to A. V, 142, the understanding associated with the fruition of Nobility arahatta - phala I …

Personality: s. sakkāya For personality-belief, see: sakkāya ditthi, ditthi, attā, satta, puggala, vipallāsa.

Phala: lit. ‘fruit’. - 1. result, effect often together with hetu cause; 2. benefit e.g. in Sāmañña-phala Sutta, ‘The Results, or Benefits, of Recluseship’; D. 2.

As ’ path -result’, or ’fru …

[[progress of the disciple]]Progress of the disciple: Gradual development of the 8-fold path in the: In many suttas occurs an identical passage that outlines the gradual course of development in …

Puggala: ‘individual’, ‘person’, as well as the synonyms: personality, individuality, being satta self attā etc., in short all terms designating a personal entity, hence also: I, you, he, man, …

Punabbhava: lit.: re-becoming; ‘renewed existence’, is a sutta term for ‘rebirth’, which, in later literature mostly is called patisandhi The attainment of Sainthood arahatta implying the end …

Puthujjana: lit.: ‘one of the many folk’, ‘worldling’, ordinary man, is any layman or Bhikkhu who is still possessed of all the 10 mental chains samyojana binding to the round of rebirths, and t …

Puñña-kiriya-vatthu: ‘bases of meritorious action’. In the suttas, 3 are mentioned consisting of giving generosity; dāna - maya - p of morality sīla - maya - p and of mental de …

Tanhā-kkhaya: ‘ceasing of craving’, is identical with ‘ceasing of fermentations’ āsavakkhaya and the attainment of perfect Nobility or Arahatship. Cf. ariya-puggala.

Tathāgata: the ‘Perfect One’, lit. the one who has ‘thus gone’, or ‘thus come’, is an epithet of the Buddha used by him when speaking of himself.

To the often asked questions, whether the Tathāga …

Tatra-majjhattatā: ‘equanimity, equipoise, mental balance’ lit., ‘remaining here and there in the middle’, is the name for a high ethical quality belonging to the sankhāra - khandha see: *kh …

Ti-lakkhana: the ‘3 charactcristies of existence’, or signata, are impermanency anicca, suffcring or misery dukkha see: sacca, dukkhatā no-self anattā.

Whether Perfect Ones appear in th …

[[turning away]]Turning away: contemplation of the: vivattanupassanā see: vipassanā.

Ādibrahmacariyaka-sīla: ‘morality of genuine pure conduct’, consists in right speech, right bodily action and right livelihood, forming the 3rd, 4th and 5th links of the 8-fold path see: sacca …

Āloka-saññā: Perception of light. The recurring canonical passage reads: Here the Bhikkhu contemplates the perception of light. He fixes his-mind to the experience of the daylight; as at day-ti …

Āsava: lit: fermentations, taints, corruptions, intoxicant biases. There is a list of four as in D. 16, Pts.M., Vibh.:
1: The mental fermentation of sense-desire kāmāsava, Ex: ’All is pleasan …

noun adjective

1. (nt.) that which is not “vata” i.e. moral obligation, breaking of the moral obligation Snp.839 (asīlata +); Mnd.188 (variant reading SS abhabbata; expl^d. again as a-vat …

A (dense & dark) cloud, a cloudy mass AN.ii.53; Vin.ii.295 = Mil.273 in list of to things that obscure moon- & sunshine, viz.; abbhaṃ mahikā (mahiyā A) dhūmarajo (megho Miln), Rāhu. This list i …

adjective = antara, i.e. internal, inner, being within or between; nt. -ṃ the inner part, interior, interval (see [as ˚-](/define/as ˚-)) Vin.i.111 (satt˚ with interval of seven); AN.iv.16 (opp. …

“going towards setting”, disappearance, death Ja.v.469.

abstr. fr. abbhatta

unprofitableness, idleness, nonsense Ja.v.295 (= abhūti avaḍḍhi C.).

a + bhū most likely = Vedic abhva and P. abbhuṃ, see also abbhāmatta

Abbhuta¹

adj. nt. terrifying, astonishing; strange, exceptional puzzling, extraordinary, marvellous, supernormal Described as a term of surprise & consternation (vimhay;’ āvahass’ adhivaca …

marched against, attacked Vin.i.342; MN.ii.124.

pp. of abbhuyyāti

to go against, to go against, to march (an army) against, to attack SN.i.82 (aor ˚uyyāsi)
pp abbhuy y āta (q.v.).

abhi + up + yāti of yā

(interj.) alas, terrible, dreadful, awful (excl. of fright & shock) Vin.ii.115 (Bdhgh. explains as “utrāsa-vacanam-etaṃ”); MN.i.448. See also abbhu & abbhuta.

Vedic abhvaṃ, nt. of abhva, see expl …

struck, attacked, afflicted SN.i.40 (maccunā); Thag.448; Snp.581; Ja.vi.26 Ja.vi.440; Vism.31, Vism.232; DN-a.i.140, DN-a.i.147; Dhp-a.iv.25.

abhi + ā + hata, pp. of han

adjective monstrous dreadful, enormous, “of the size of a large cloud (thus C. on SN.i.205 & Ja.iii.309) SN.i.205 = Thag.652 (variant reading abbha˚ & abbhāmutta) = Ja.iii.309 (variant reading ˚mutta) …

adjective drawn out, pulled (of a sting or dart), fig. removed destroyed. Most freq. in comb^n. -salla with the sting removed, having the sting (of craving thirst, taṇhā) pulled out DN.ii …

pulling out, removal, destroying Snp-a.518.

abstr. of abbūḷha

Abhi-

I. Meaning

1. The primary meaning of abhi is that of taking possession and mastering, as contained in E. coming by and over-coming, thus literally having the function of facing …

to know by experience, to know fully or thoroughly, to recognise know of (c. acc.), to be conscious or aware of DN.i.143; SN.ii.58, SN.ii.105, SN.ii.219, SN.ii.278; SN.iii.59, SN.iii.91; SN.iv.50, SN. …

to beget, produce, effect, attain, in phrase akaṇhaṃ asukkaṃ Nibbānaṃ a. DN.iii.251; AN.iii.384 sq At Snp.214 abhijāyati means “to behave, to be”, cp Snp-a.265 (abhijāyati = bhavati).

abhi + jāyati …

adjective noun

1. (adj.) lit. gone forward, gone out, gone beyond. According to the traditional expl^n. preserved by Bdhgh. & Dhp (see e.g. DN-a.i.227 = Kp-a.114 = Vv-a.52) it is used in …

having signs or marks, being characterised, characteristics Dhs-a.62.

abstr. fr. abhilakkhita

adjective facing, turned towards, approaching Ja.ii.3 (˚ā ahesuṃ met each other). usually -˚ turned to, going to, inclined towards DN.i.50 (purattha˚) Ja.i.203 (devaloka˚), Ja.i.223 (varaṇa-rukkha˚) …

reproduced, reborn AN.iv.40, AN.iv.401; Cnd.256 (nibbatta abhi pātubhūta); Dhs.1035, Dhs.1036 (so read for˚ nippatta) Vv-a.9 (puññ’ânubhāva˚ by the power of merit).

abhi + nibbatta, pp. of abhinibbattati

to become, to be reproduced, to result Pp.51
pp abhinibbatta
■ Cp B.Sk. wrongly abhinivartate].

abhi + nibbattati

to produce, cause, cause to become SN.iii.152; AN.v.47; Nd ii.under jāneti.

abhi + nibbatteti, caus. of ˚nibbattati

adjective perfectly cooled, calmed, serene, esp. in two phrases, viz. diṭṭha dhamm’ ābhinibbuta AN.i.142 = MN.iii.187; Snp.1087; Cnd.83, and abhinibbutatta of cooled mind Snp.343 (= apariḍayhamāna …

to create (by magic), produce, shape, make SN.iii.152 (rūpaṃ); AN.i.279 (oḷārikaṃ attabhāvaṃ); Nd ii.under pucchā⁶ (rūpaṃ manomayaṃ); Vv-a.16 (mahantaṃ hatthi-rāja-vaṇṇaṃ)
pp *[abhinim …

at Dhs.1035, Dhs.1036 is to be read abhinibbatta.

(-matta) destroying, hurting (?) at Vb.321 is expl^d. by āpātha-matta.

cp. Divy.125 śastrâbhinipāta splitting open or cutting with a knife

[fr. abhi-ni-pāteti in daṇḍa-sattha˚; attacking with stick or knife Cnd.576#4.

to cling to, adhere to, be attached to Mnd.308, Mnd.309 (parāmasati +)
pp abhiniviṭṭha; cp. also abhinivesa.

abhi + nivisati

adjective “settled in”, attached to, clinging on Cnd.152 (gahita parāmaṭṭha a.); Pv-a.267 (= ajjhāsita Pv.iv.8#4).

abhi + niviṭṭha, pp. of abhi-nivisati

being bent on (“downward force” Dhs trsl. 242), i.e. taking oneself out to, way of acting, (proper) behaviour, endeavour, resolve, aspiration SN.iii.267 sq. (˚kusala); AN.ii.189; AN.iii.311; AN.iv.3 …

to have regard for, look for, strive after AN.i.147 (nibbānaṃ); AN.iii.75; Snp.896 (khema˚), Snp.1070 (rattamahā˚) Mnd.308; Cnd.428; Ja.vi.370.

abhi + passati

adjective one who has attained, attaining (-˚), getting possession of SN.i.200 (devakañña˚).

fr. abhipatti

attacking, fighting, as adj. f. -aṇī fighting, epithet of Mārassa senā, the army of M. Snp.439 (kaṇhassa˚ the fighting army of k. = samaṇabrāhmaṇānaṃ nippothanī antarāyakārī Snp-a.390).

abhi + paharaṇa

adjective propitiated, satisfied AN.iv.185 (+ attamana).

pp. of abhi + rādh

the fact of being fond of, delighting in (-˚) Ja.v.254 (kāma˚).

abstr. fr. abhirata

adjective very red Ja.v.156; fig. very much excited or affected with (-˚) Snp.891 (sandiṭṭhirāgena a.).

abhi + ratta

having succeeded in, fallen to one’s share, attained Thag.259.

pp. of abhirādheti

“coming by completely”, insight into, comprehension, realization clear understanding, grasp, penetration. See on term Kvu trsl. 381 sq
■ Esp. in full phrases: attha˚; grasp of what is proficient …

Abhisambhavati (˚bhoti)

“to come up to”, i.e. to be able to (get or stand or overcome) to attain, reach, to bear AN.iv.241; Thag.436; Mnd.471 Mnd.485; Ja.iii.140; Ja.v.150, Ja.v.417; Ja.vi.292, Ja.vi …

Abhisambhavati (˚bhoti)

“to come up to”, i.e. to be able to (get or stand or overcome) to attain, reach, to bear AN.iv.241; Thag.436; Mnd.471 Mnd.485; Ja.iii.140; Ja.v.150, Ja.v.417; Ja.vi.292, Ja.vi …

adjective getting, attaining (?) DN.ii.255 (lomahaṃsa˚).

fr. abhi + sam + bhū

attained, got Sdhp.556.

pp. of abhisambhavati

1. (pass.) realised, perfectly understood DN.iii.273; SN.iv.331; Iti.121 an˚; not understood MN.i.71, MN.i.92, MN.i.114, MN.i.163, MN.i.240
2. (med.) one who has come to the realisation of the highe …

thorough realisation, perfect understanding SN.v.433.

abstr. fr. abhisambuddha

completely grasped or realised, understood mastered SN.v.128 (dhamma a.), SN.v.440 (anabhisametāni cattāri ariyasaccāni, cp. Divy.654 anabhisamitāni c.a.) AN.iv.384 (appattaṃ asacchikataṃ +).

pp. of …

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

outflow, overflow, yield, issue, result only in foll. phrases: cattāro puññ’ âbhisandā kusal’ âbhisandā (yields in merit) SN.v.391 sq.; AN.ii.54 sq. AN.iii.51, AN.iii.337; AN.vi.245, & *kamm’ âbhisa …

to execrate, curse, accurse Vin.iv.276; Ja.iv.389; Ja.v.87; Dhp-a.i.42
pp abhisatta.

abhi + sapati, of śap

cursed, accursed, railed at, reviled Ja.iii.460; Ja.v.71; Snp-a.364 (= akkuṭṭha); Vv-a.335.

pp. of abhisapati, cp. Sk. abhiśapta, fr. abhi + śap

Only in abhisaṃvisseyyagattaṃ (or -bhastaṃ or -santuṃ) Thig.466 a compound of doubtful derivation and meaning. Mrs. Rh. D., following Dhammapāla (p. 283) ʻa bag of skin with carrion filled’.

abhi …

to carry out, arrange; to get; procure, attain Ja.vi.180; Mil.264.

abhi + sādheti

scorched (by heat), dried up, exhausted, in phrases uṇha˚ Vin.ii.220; Mil.97, and ghamma˚ SN.ii.110, SN.ii.118; Snp.1014; Ja.ii.223; Vv-a.40; Pv-a.114.

pp. of abhi + tapati

…Mil.132, Mil.411. pp. abhivaṭṭa & abhivuṭṭha; (q.v.)
caus II. abhivassāpeti to cause (the sky to) rain Mil.132.

abhi + vassati…

rained upon Dhp.335 (gloss ˚vuṭṭha; cp. Dhp-a.iv.45); Mil.176 Mil.197, Mil.286
■ Note. Andersen P. R. prefers reading abhivaḍḍha at Dhp.335 “the abounding Bīraṇa grass”).

pp. of abhivassati, s …

…(gloss); Pv-a.29.

pp. of abhivassati, see also abhivaṭṭa

to go against (in a hostile manner, to attack (c. acc.) SN.i.216 (aor. abhiyaṃsu, variant reading SS abhijiyiṃsu); Dhp-a.iii.310 (aor. abhiyāsi as variant reading for T. reading pāyāsi; the id. p Vv\ …

Abhiññā¹

feminine Rare in the older texts. It appears in two contexts. Firstly, certain conditions are said to conduce (inter alia) to serenity, to special knowledge (abhiññā), to specia …

1. to pass (of time), to go by, to elapse Thag.145 (accayanti ahorattā).
2. to overcome to get over Mil.36 (dukkhaṃ)

caus acceti to make go on (loc.), to put on Ja.vi.17 (sūlasm …

Accha¹

adjective clear, transparent Vin.i.206 (˚kañjika); DN.i.76 (maṇi = tanucchavi DN-a.i.221), DN.i.80 (udakapatta), DN.i.84 (udaka-rahada); MN.i.100; SN.ii.281 (˚patta); SN.iii.105 ( …

Accharā¹

feminine the snapping of the fingers, the bringing together of the finger-tips:

1. (lit.) accharaṃ paharati to snap the fingers Ja.ii.447; Ja.iii.191; Ja.iv.124, Ja.iv.126 Ja. …

Addha¹

(num.) one half, half (˚-) DN.i.166 (˚māsika); AN.ii.160 (-māsa); Ja.i.59 (-yojana); iii. 189 (˚māsa).

= aḍḍha, q.v.

Addha²

adjective soiled, wet; fig. attached …

(in compounds addha˚;)

1. (of space a path, road, also journey (see compounds & derivations); only in one ster. phrase Ja.iv.384 = Ja.v.137 (pathaddhuno paṇṇarase va cando, gen. for loc. ˚addha …

same meaning as addhan but as simplex only used with reference to time (i.e. a long time, cp. Vv-a.117 addhānaṃ = ciraṃ). Usually in phrase atītaṃ (anāgataṃ etc.) addhānaṃ in …

to be or get wet, fig. to be attached to Ja.iv.351. See also allīyati.

v. denom. fr. adda

A. Prep. and pref. of direction & place:

1. as direction denoting a movement towards a definite end or goal up to, over, toward, to, on (see C 1a.)
2. as place where (prep. c. loc. or abs.) = …

to get to, to come into possession of, to acquire, attain, find; fig. to understand DN.i.229 (vivesaṃ) MN.i.140 (anvesaṃ n’ âdhigacchanti do not find); SN.i.22 (nibbānaṃ); SN.ii.278 (id.); AN.i.162 (i …

attainment, acquisition; also fig. knowledge, information, study (the latter mainly in Miln) DN.iii.255; SN.ii.139; AN.ii.148; AN.iv.22, AN.iv.332; AN.v.194; Ja.i.406; Ne.91; Mil.133, Mil.215, Mil.358 …

got into possession of, conquered, attained, found Ja.i.374; Vv-a.135.

pp. of adhigacchati

adjective exceeding, extraordinary, superior, Pp.35; Vv-a.80 (= anadhivara, visiṭṭha); DN-a.i.141, DN-a.i.222; Dpvs.v.32 (an˚); Dhp-a.iii.238 Kp-a.193 (= anuttara); Sdhp.337, Sdhp.447
■ compar …

1. attendance, supervision, management of affairs, administration Pv-a.209.
2. relation, reference, reason, cause, consequence DN.ii.59 (-˚: in consequence of); SN.ii.41; SN.v.19. Esp. acc. -ṃ as …

adjective extreme, exceeding, extraordinary; nt. adv. ˚ṃ extremely MN.i.152, MN.i.243; SN.iv.160; AN.ii.150; AN.iv.241; Ja.i.92; Pp.15; Mil.146, Mil.189 Mil.274, Mil.290; Pv.ii.3#6 (= adhikataraṃ Pv- …

preponderance AN.ii.150; Dhs-a.334 (cp. Dhs. trsl. 200).

abstr. fr. prec.

1. to be drawn to, feel attached to or inclined towards, to indulge in (c. loc. SN.iii.225; SN.iv.185; AN.iv.24, AN.iv.145 sq., AN.iv.460; AN.v.17; Pp.63.
2. to become settled, to make up one’s mind a …

Adhimuccita & Adhimucchita

past participle drawn towards, attached to, infatuated, indulging in (with loc.) MN.ii.223 (an˚); SN.i.113; Thag.732 (variant reading ˚muccita), Thag.923 (cch), Thag.1175; …

Adhimuccita & Adhimucchita

past participle drawn towards, attached to, infatuated, indulging in (with loc.) MN.ii.223 (an˚); SN.i.113; Thag.732 (variant reading ˚muccita), Thag.923 (cch), Thag.1175; …

adjective inclined to, attached to, bent on SN.ii.154, SN.ii.158; Iti.70; Vb.339 sq. + tā (f. inclination DN.i.2.

= adhimutta

to come to, reach, attain AN.iv.96 (anatthaṃ); pp. adhipanna.

adhi + pajjati

adjective (-˚) mastering, ruling or governed, influenced by (cp. adhipati) AN.i.150 (atta loka˚ dhamma˚).

fr. prec.

attack, pressing Thag-a.271.

fr. adhipatati

noun adjective

1. ruler, master Ja.iv.223; Vv.81#1; Mil.388; Dhp-a.i.36 (= seṭṭha).
2. ruling over, governing, predominant; ruled or governed by Vb.216 sq. (chandaṃ adhipatiṃ katvā making energy pre …

the fact of being meant or understood as, in abl. ˚ā with reference to, as is to be understood of Vv-a.13; Pv-a.52.

abstr. fr. adhippeta

to come on, proceed, issue, result SN.i.101; AN.ii.32.

adhi + vattati

Err:509

Err:501

adjective (-˚) subject, dependent DN.i.72 (atta˚ & para˚;); Ja.iv.112; DN-a.i.217; also written ādhīna Ja.v.350. See also under para.

cp. Sk. adhīna

past participle that which is not given, freq. in phrase adinn’ ādāna (BSk. adattādāna Divy.302 seizing or grasping that which is not given to one i.e. stealing, is the 2^nd of the ten qua …

Agga¹

adjective noun

1. (adj.)
   1. of time: the first, foremost Dpvs.iv.13 (saṅgahaṃ first collection). See cpds
   2. of space: the highest, topmost, Ja.i.52 (˚sākhā)
   3. of qual …

the state or condition of being the first, pre-eminence Pv-a.9, Pv-a.89.

abstr. of agga = Sk. agratvan

1. price, value, worth, Mil.244; Mhvs.26, Mhvs.22; Mhvs.30, Mhvs.76; Vv-a.77
   ■ mahaggha (adj.) of great value Ja.iv.138; Ja.v.414; Ja.vi.209; Pv.ii.1#18. See also mahāraha. …

…which does not strike or aghaṭṭaniya is not strikeable Dhs-a.326 cp. Dhs. trsl. 194 & Ja.iv.154 aghe ṭhitā = appaṭighe ākāse ṭhitā…

Aha¹

indeclinable exclamation of surprise, consternation, pain etc “ch! alas! woe!”. Perhaps to be seen in cpd. -kāmā miserable pleasures lit. “woe to these pleasures!”) gloss at Thag- …

snake Vin.ii.109; DN.i.77; SN.iv.198; AN.iii.306 sq.; AN.iv.320; AN.v.289; Mnd.484; Vism.345 (+ kukkura etc.); Vv-a.100; Pv-a.144.

• -kuṇapa the carcase of a snake Vin.iii.68 …

absence of exultancy, modesty Ja.iii.466 (= an-ubbillāvitattaṃ C.).

a + hāsa, cp. Sk. ahāsa & aharṣa

he-goat, a ram DN.i.6, DN.i.127; AN.ii.207; Ja.i.241; Ja.iii.278 sq. Ja.v.241; Pp.56; Pv-a.80.

• -eḷaka [Sk. ajaiḍaka] goats & sheep DN.i.5, DN.i.141; AN.ii.42 sq., AN.ii.209; J …

he came to, got to, found, obtained, experienced SN.i.12 (vimānaṃ); Snp.225 (expl^d. at Kp-a.180 by vindi paṭilabhi), Snp.956 (ratiṃ; expl^d. at Mnd.457 by adhigacchi); Iti.69 (jā …

Ajjhappatta & Ajjhapatta

1. having reached, approached, coming near to Ja.ii.450 Ja.vi.566 (p; C. attano santikaṃ patta).
2. having fallen upon, attacked Ja.ii.59; Ja.v.198 (p; C. *[sampatta](/define/ …

Ajjhappatta & Ajjhapatta

1. having reached, approached, coming near to Ja.ii.450 Ja.vi.566 (p; C. attano santikaṃ patta).
2. having fallen upon, attacked Ja.ii.59; Ja.v.198 (p; C. *[sampatta](/define/ …

adjective noun that which is personal, subjective, arises from within (in contrast to anything outside, objective or impersonal); as adv. & ˚interior, personal, inwardly (opp.; bahiddhā bāhira etc o …

adjective personal, inward (cp. Dhs trsl. 207 & Mnd.346: ajjhattikaṃ vuccati cittaṃ) opp. bāhira outward (q.v.). See also āyatana
■ MN.i.62 SN.i.73 (˚ā rakkhā na bāhirā); SN.iv …

requested, asked, invited Vin.i.113 (an˚ unbidden); DN.ii.289 (Buddhaghosa and text read ajjhitta); Snp.p.218 (= ajjhesita Cnd.16); Ja.vi.292 (= āṇatta C.); Dhp-a.iv.100 (variant reading abhijjhiṭṭha …

stiffened out (in a swoon), lying in a faint (?) AN.iii.57 sq (variant reading ajjhomuñcïta or ˚muccita better: sarīre attached to her body, clinging to her b.).

pp. adhi + ava + mūrch, cp. adhimuccita

to be bound to, to be attached, bent on; to desire, cleave to, indulge in. Fut. ajjhosissati (does it belong here?) MN.i.328 (c. acc. paṭhaviṃ, better as ajjhesati). grd. ajjhositabha MN.i.109 (+ …

cleaving to (earthly joys), attachment, DN.ii.58 sq.; DN.iii.289; MN.i.498 (+ abhinandana); SN.iii.187; AN.i.66; AN.ii.11 (diṭṭhi˚, kāma˚ + taṇhā). In comb^n. with (icchā) and mucchā at Nd …

being tied to, hanging on, attached to only in phrase a. tiṭṭhati (+ abhinandati, same in Divy MN.i.266; SN.iv.36 sq.; SN.iv.60, SN.iv.71 sq.; Mil.69. See also ajjhosa.

ger. o …

(cp. agalu) an ointment Ja.iv.440 (akaluñ candanañ ca, variant reading BB aggaluṃ; C. explains as kālākaluñ ca rattacandanañ ca, thus implying a blacking or dark ointment); Ja …

the condition of not being shaken, stableness Mil.354.

abstr. fr. akampiya, grd. of a + kampati

adjective not practical, unwise, foolish Ja.iii.530 (-rūpa = akattabba-rūpa C.); Mil.250.

a + kiriya

to tread upon, to approach, attack Ja.i.7, Ja.i.279; Thag-a.9
■ to rise Vin.iii.38
ger akkamma Cp.iii.7#2
pp akkanta (q.v.).

ā + kamati, kram

g417

Akkha¹

the axle of a wheel DN.ii.96; SN.v.6; AN.i.112; Ja.i.109, Ja.i.192; Ja.v.155 (akkhassa phalakaṃ yathā; C.: suvaṇṇaphalakaṃ viya, i.e. shiny, like the polished surface of an axle …

adjective not stuck or attached Cnd.107 (also alaggita); alaggamāna (ppr.) id. Dhp-a.iii.298.

pp. of laggati

lac, a red animal dye Ja.iv.114 (˚pāṭala); Dhp-a.ii.174; Dhp-a.iv.197.

Sk. alaktaka

indeclinable emphatic particle

1. in affirmative sentences: part. of assurance emphasis = for sure, very much (so), indeed, truly. Note. In connection with a dat. or an infin. the latter only app …

adjective (only ˚-)

1. moist, wet MN.iii.94 (-mattikā -puñja a heap of moist clay; may be taken in meaning 2).
2. fresh (opp. stale), new; freshly plucked, gathered or caught, viz.
   • *-kusam …

? only in cpd. (kāma-) sukh’ allik’ânuyoga given to the attachment to sensual joys Vin.i.10; DN.iii.113 DN.iii.130; SN.iv.330; SN.v.421; Ne.110.

either from alla = allikaṃ nt. in meaning defilemen …

1. friend, companion, fellow-worker, helper, esp one who gives his advice, a bosom-friend Iti.73; Ja.vi.512 (sahajātā amaccā); Pv.ii.6#20 (a ˚-paricārikā well-advising friends as company or around …

adjective not mortal, not subject to death Thag.276; Snp.249 (= amara-bhāva-patthanatāya pavatta-kāya-kilesa Snp-a.291); Ja.v.80 (= amaraṇa-sabhāva) Ja.v.218; Dāvs v.62.

a + mara from mṛ.

immortality Ja.v.223 (= devatta C.).

abstr. fr. amara

Amata¹

neuter

1. The drink of the gods, ambrosia, water of immortality, (cp BSk. amṛta-varṣa “rain of Ambrosia” Jtm.221).
2. A general conception of a state of durability & non-change a …

adjective not knowing any bounds (in the taking of food), intemperate immoderate Iti.23 (bhojanamhi); Dhp.7 (id.); Pp.21.

a + matta + ˚ñu = Sk. amātrajña

immoderation (in food) DN.iii.213; Iti.23 (bhojane); Pp.21; Dhs.1346 (bhojane) Dhs-a.402.

abstr. to prec.

Ambara¹

neuter the sky, Dāvs i.38; Dāvs iv.51; Dāvs v.32
■ Note. At Ja.v.390 we have to read muraja-ālambara, and not mura-jāla-ambara.

Vedic ambara circumference, horizon

Ambara< …

adjective not lacking, complete in (loc.), fulfilling DN.i.88 (= anūna paripūra-kārin DN-a.i.248); AN.iii.152 (= samatta paripuṇṇa AA quoted by Tr. on Mil.10).

derivation doubtful. See Trenckner *P …

…numberless Iti.99 (saṃvaṭṭakappā countless aeons); Snp.688 (˚sākhā); Dhp.153 (˚jātisāra); Ja.iv.2 Ja.vi.366.

• -pariyāyena…

“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 …

houselessness, a houseless state, fig freedom from worldliness or attachment to life, singleness SN.v.24 = AN.v.232 = Dhp.87 (okā anokaṃ āgamma). adj. homeless, free from attachment SN.i.176; Dhp.87 ( …

to rub along over, to stroke, only in phrase gattāni pāṇinā a. to rub over one’s limbs with the hand MN.i.80, MN.i.509; SN.v.216.

anu + ava + majjati, mṛj

…AN.iv.262; Snp.401 (= vaṭṭadukkhassa antagata); Snp.539. -ruddhi at Ja.vi.8 is doubtful reading (antaruci?)….

adjective Primary meanings are “inside” and “in between” as adj. “inner”; in prep. use & in compounds “inside, in between”. Further development of meaning is with a view of contrasting the (two) sides …

adjective last, final (used almost exclusively with ref. to the last & final reincarnation thus in comb^n. with deha & sarīra;, the last body) DN.ii.15; Dhp.351; Iti.50 (antimaṃ dehaṃ dhār …

indeclinable prep. inside, either c. acc. denoting direction = into, or c. loc. denoting place where = in. As prefix (˚-) in, within, inside, inner (see compounds)

1. prep c. acc. anto nivesanaṃ g …

Anu¹

indeclinable prep. & pref

A.

As prep. anu is only found occasionally, and here its old (Vedic) function with acc. is superseded by the loc. Traces of …

see ubbill˚.

Anubhavati & Anubhoti

to come to or by, to undergo, suffer (feel), get, undertake, partake in, experience DN.i.129; DN.ii.12 (˚bhonti); MN.ii.204; AN.i.61 (atthaṃ ˚bhoti to have a good result); Ja.vi …

Anubhavati & Anubhoti

to come to or by, to undergo, suffer (feel), get, undertake, partake in, experience DN.i.129; DN.ii.12 (˚bhonti); MN.ii.204; AN.i.61 (atthaṃ ˚bhoti to have a good result); Ja.vi …

the fact of having to undergo, experiencing Pv-a.103.

abstr. fr. ppr. Pass. of anubhavati

past participle

1. pursuing, following out, practising, doing; having attained or practised Vin.ii.203 = Iti.86 (pamādaṃ); Ja.i.20 (verse 126); Thag.236 Thag.2, Thag.206; Dpvs.iv.9.
2. adorned with, …

to hold up DN-a.i.61 (chattaṃ), cp. Ja.1.53, dhariyamāna.

anu + dhāreti

an “after-view”, sceptical view, speculation, heresy DN.i.12; MN.ii.228; SN.iii.45 sq. Thag.754; Mil.325; DN-a.i.103. attānudiṭṭhi (q.v.) a soul-speculation.

anu + diṭṭhi

to throw out Cp.xi.6 (vaṭṭaṃ).

anu + khipati

see *aṇu*˚.

adjective not out of mind, sane, of sound mind Mil.122; Sdhp.205.

an + ummatta

“according to taste”, i.e. satisfaction, thanks, esp. after a meal or after receiving gifts = to say grace or benediction, blessing, thanksgiving. In latter sense with dadāti (give thanks for = loca …

to find satisfaction in (acc.), to rejoice in, be thankful for (c. acc.), appreciate, benefit from, to be pleased, to enjoy Vin.ii.212 (bhattagge a. to say grace after a meal); SN.ii.54; AN.iii.50 (*\ …

adjective free from attachment (see upadhi) Vin.i.36 (anupadhīka); DN.iii.112 (anupadhika opp. to sa-upadhika); Snp.1057 (anūpadhīka T. but Nd ii.anūpadhika. with ū for u metri ca …

not attacking, instr. -ena not by attack (from external enemies) Vin.ii.195.

an + upakkama

gone into, reached, attained Snp.764 (māradheyya˚).

pp. of anupajjati

to run up & down or to move round & round (cp. anuparivattati) SN.iii.150 (khīlan).

anu + pari + dhāvati

dealing with, interest in SN.iv.312 (variant reading ˚vattana).

fr. anuparisakkati

to move round, to be occupied with, take an interest in (c. acc.) SN.iv.312 (variant reading ˚vattati).

anu + pari + sakkati

to go or move round, viz.

1. to deal with, be engaged in, perform, worship Vin.iii.307 (ādiccaṃ); DN.i.240; Pv-a.97.
2. to meet Mil.204 (Devadatto ca Bodhisatto ca ekato anuparivattanti).
3. to move …

looking at, viewing, contemplating, consideration, realisation SN.v.178 sq., Snp.p.140; Pts.i.10, Pts.i.20, Pts.i.96; Pts.ii.37, Pts.ii.41 sq. Pts.ii.67 sq.; Vb.194. See anicca˚, anatta˚, dukkha˚.

…

1. to follow, go after, Ja.vi.555 anupatiyāsi Subj.).
2. to fall upon, to befall, attack Vin.iii.106 = MN.i.364; SN.i.23 (read ˚patanti for ˚patatanti = Dhp.221 (dukkhā); Thag.41 = Thag.1167 (of light …

the fact of being attacked by, being a victim of (-˚) Snp-a.339.

abstr. of anupatita

(anuppatta) (having) attained, received, got to (c. acc), reached DN.i.87–DN.i.111; DN.ii.2; Iti.38; Snp.027, Snp.635; Dhp.386, Dhp.403; Pv.iv.1#66; Pv-a.59 (dukkhaṃ), Pv-a.242. In phrase *addhagata …

(anuppatti) feminine attainment, accomplishment, wish, desire (fulfilled), ideal SN.i.46, SN.i.52.

anu + patti

(anuppa˚) adjective to anupavatteti] one who succeeds (another) King or Ruler in the ruling of an empire (cakkaṃ) Mil.342, Mil.362; Snp-a.454. See also anuvattaka.

adjective unattached, “aloof” SN.i.181 (akankha apiha +).

an + upaya

adjective setting out after, following, attacking Ja.v.452.

anu + pa + ṭhita

adjective following in one’s turn, successive, gradual, by and by, regular Vin.ii.237 (mahāsamuddo a˚-ninno etc.); DN.i.184; Snp.511; Ja.v.155 (regularly formed, of ūrū). Cases adverbially: *[anupubb …

to make reach or attain, to lead to, to give or make find Ja.vi.88; Cp. xi. 4 (aor anupāpayi); Mil.276
pp anupāpita (q.v.).

Caus. of anupāpuṇāti

having been lead to or made to reach, attained, found Mil.252.

pp. of anupāpeti

(anuppā˚) to reach, attain, get to, find SN.i.105; ger. anuppatvāna Pv.ii.9#24 (˚pāpuṇitvā Pv-a.123)
pp anupatta (q.v.)
caus anupāpeti (q.v.).

anu …

attack in speech, contest, reproach AN.i.161 (vāda˚).

of anupatati

adjective

1. following, indulging in Ja.iii.523 (khaṇa˚).
2. attacking, hurting Ja.v.399.

fr. anupāta

adjective pp. of anu + rañj ] attached or devoted to, fond of, faithful Thig.446 (bhattāraṃ); Ja.i.297; Mil.146.

adjective DN.ii.283 (me dīgharatta˚), “for me, so long obsessed (with doubts)”. The reading is uncertain.

fr. anusaya

dormant, only in comb^n. dīgharatta˚; latent so long Thag.768; Snp.355 Snp.649. Cp. anusaya & anusayin.

pp. of anuseti, anu + śī

adjective yearly Dhp-a.i.388 (nakkhattaṃ). Usually nt. -ṃ as adv. yearly, every year Ja.i.68; Ja.v.99. On use of anu in this comb^n. see anu A a.

anu + saṃv˚

to learn of somebody (gen.); to follow one’s example, to imitate Vin.ii.201 (ppr. med. ˚amāna); SN.i.235; AN.iv.282, AN.iv.286, AN.iv.323; Snp.294 (vattaṃ, cp. RV iii.59, 2: vratena śikṣati), Snp.934; …

adjective studying, learning MN.i.100; Dhp.226 (ahoratta˚ = divā ca rattiñ ca tisso sikkhā sikkhamāna Dhp-a.iii.324).

fr. anusikhati

adjective attached to one, i.e. inherent, chronic (of disease) MN.ii.70 (ābādha, variant reading BB anussāyika) Dhp-a.i.431 (roga).

fr. anusaya

adjective

1. = anupavattaka (q.v.) Thag.1014 (cakka˚).
2. following, siding with (-˚) Vin.iv.218 (ukkhittânuvattikā f.).

fr. anuvatteti

complying with, conformity with (-˚), compliance, observance, obedience Ja.i.367 (dhamma˚); Ja.v.78.

abstr. fr. anuvattati

1. to follow, imitate, follow one’s example (c. acc.), to be obedient DN.ii.244; Vin.ii.309 (bdhgh.); Vin.iv.218; Ja.i.125, Ja.i.300; DN-a.i.288; Pv-a.19.
2. to practice, execute Pv.iv.7#12

caus *\ …

adjective following, acting according to or in conformity with (-˚), obedient Ja.ii.348 (f. ˚inī), Ja.iii.319 (id.); Dhp.86 (dhamma˚); Vv.15#5 (vasa˚ = anukūlabhāvena vattana sīla Vv-a.71); Dhp-a.i …

…part of a bhikkhu’s dress: a sub-vivaṭṭa (q.v.) Vin.i.287 (vivaṭṭa +).

anu + vivaṭṭa

1. blaming, censure, admonition Vin.ii.5 Vin.ii.32; AN.ii.121 (atta˚, para˚); Vb.376.
2. in comb^n. vādānuvāda: talk and lesser or additional talk, i.e. “small talk” (see *[anu](/define/an …

1. application, devotion to (-˚), execution, practice of (-˚); often comb^d. with anuyutta in phrase -anuyogaṃ anuyutta = practisiṅg e.g. Vin.i.190 (maṇḍan’ ânuyogaṃ anuyutta); DN.iii.1 …

adjective applying oneself to, devoted to (-˚) Dhp.209 (atta˚ given to oneself, self-concentrated).

fr. anuyoga

1. applying oneself to, dealing with, practising, given to, intent upon DN.i.166, DN.i.167; DN.iii.232 = AN.ii.205 (attaparitāpan’ ânuyogaṃ a.); SN.iii.153 SN.iv.104; Snp.663 (lobhaguṇe), Snp.814 (met …

being permitted, permission Ja.ii.353.

abstr. to anuññāta

smallness, littleness, insignificance Vv-a.24.

abstr. fr. an + uḷāra

having pursued, attained; endowed with Thag.63; Ja.iv.385; Ja.v.4.

pp. of anvāgacchati

endowed with, possessed of, attacked by, Ud.35 (doubtfull; variant reading ajjhāpanna) = AN.iv.356 which has anvāsatta.

pp. of anu + ā + sad

clung on to, befallen by (instr.), attached to AN.iv.356 (variant reading anvāhata), cp. Ud.35 (anvāsanna q.v.) See also foll.

pp. of anu + ā + sañj, cp. anusatta = Sk. anusakta

being attacked by, falling a prey to (instr.), attachment to Dhp-a.i.287 (in same context as anvāsatta AN.iv.356 & anvāsanna Ud.35).

abstr. fr. anvāsatta

to stream into, to attack, befall DN.i.70; AN.iii.99; Pp.20, Pp.58.

anu + ā + savati, sru

undergoing, experiencing, attaining; as prep. (c. acc.) in consequence of, through after DN.i.13 (ātappaṃ by means of self-sacrifice), DN.i.97 (saṃvāsaṃ as a result of their cohabitation); Ja.i.56 (b …

adjective free from attachment (opp. sādāna) AN.ii.10 = Iti.9 = Iti.109 = Cnd.172#a; Snp.620, Snp.741 Snp.1094; Cnd.41 (where as nt. = taṇha); Dhp.352 (= khandhādisu niggahaṇa Dhp-a.iv.70), 396, 406, …

adjective noun one who does not return, a Never-Returner, as tt. designating one who has attained the 3^rd stage out of four in the breaking of the bonds (Saṃyojanas) which keep a man back …

adjective fasting, not taking food SN.iv.118. f. -ā [cp. Sk. anāśaka nt.] fasting, abstaining from food Dhp.141 (= bhatta-paṭikkhepa Dhp-a.iii.77).

an + āsaka

fasting Snp.249 (= abhojana Snp-a.292).

abstr. of anāsaka

Apa˚

Well-defined directional prefix, meaning “away from, off” Usually as base-prefix (except with ā), & very seldom in comp^n. with other modifying prefixes (like sam, abhi etc.).

1. *a …

one who takes away or removes, destroyer MN.i.447 = Kv.528.

n. ag. to apaharati

1. to take away, remove MN.i.96 = AN.i.198 (kathaṃ bahiddhā a. carry outside) Kp.viii.4 (= aññaṃ ṭhānaṃ gameti Kp-a.220).
2. [= Sk. ava-namati] to bend down, lower, put down Vin.ii.208 (chattaṃ); SN …

adjective not dependent or relying on others Vin.i.12 (vesārajja-ppatta +); DN.i.110 (id.); MN.ii.41; MN.i.491; SN.iii.83; DN-a.i.278 (nâssa paro paccayo).

a + para + paccaya

to go away, to go aside Ja.iv.347 (variant reading for apavattati); Vv-a.101; Pv-a.265 (aor ˚sakki = apakkami).

apa + sakkati

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. …

to turn away or aside, to go away Ja.iv.347 (variant reading apasakkati).

apa + vṛt, cp. Lat. āverto

adjective gone away; (med.) freed of, rid of, deprived of (instr., abl. or ˚-) Dhp.9 (damasaccena); Pv-a.35 (dukkhato); usually ˚-in sense of “without, -less”, e.g. apeta-kaddama free from mud st …

absence (of) Pv-a.92.

abstr. to apeta

that which is tied on, i.e band, ornament, apparel, parure Vv.64#10, Vv.64#18 (expl^d. inacurately at Vv-a.279 by; a-kāro nipātamattaṃ, pilandhanaṃ = ābhāraṇaṃ); Ja.vi.472 (c. pilandhituṃ …

adjective small, little, insignificant, often in the sense of “very little = (next to) nothing” (so in most compounds); thus expl^d. at Vv-a.334 as equivalent to a negative part. (see *[a …

Appamatta¹

adjective see appa.

appa + matta

Appamatta²

adjective not negligent, i.e. diligent, careful, heedful, vigilant, alert zealous MN.i.391–MN.i.92; …

appeti* application (of mind), ecstasy,fixing of thought on an object conception (as psychol. t. t.) Ja.ii.61 (˚patta); Mil.62 (of vitakka); Dhs.7, Dhs.21, Dhs.298; Vism.144 (˚samādh …

the state of not going on, the stop (to all that), the non-continuance (of all that Thag.767; Mil.326.

a + pavattā

(˚bhogin) adjective (not eating) without sharing with others (with omission of another negative: see Trenckner, Mil p.429, where also Bdhgh’s expl^n.) AN.iii.289; Mil.373; cp. Mil trsl. ii.2 …

to attain, reach, get Vism.350 (in etym. of āpo).

the contracted form of āpnoti, usually pāpuṇāti, fr. āp

unfitness Mil.232 (variant reading apākatatta perhaps better).

a + pākaṭa + tā

“waterless state”, living without drinking water Ja.v.243.

a + pānaka + ttaṃ

adjective that which cannot be achieved, unattainable Ja.vi.36 (= apāpetabba).

grd. of paraneti + a˚

“going away” viz.

1. separation, loss Dhp.211 (piya˚ = viyoga Dhp-a.iii.276).
2. loss (of property) DN.iii.181, DN.iii.182; AN.ii.166; AN.iv.283; Ja.iii.387 (atth˚).
3. leakage, out flow (of water) …

adjective going away Ja.i.163 (aḍḍharattāv’apāyin = aḍḍharatte apāyin C.). -an˚; not going away, i.e. constantly following (chāyā anapāyinī, the shadow) Dhp.2; Thag.1041; Mil.72.

fr. apāya

…= Pv-a.7 (has saṃsāra-vaṭṭassa); Vv-a.277.

Vedic ara fr. ṛ; ṛṇoti; see etym. under appeti & cp. more esp. Lat. artus limb, Gr.;…

…from a well Bdgh. on cakkavaṭṭaka at cv v.16, 2 (Vin.ii.318). So read for T. arahatta-ghaṭi-yanta acc to Morris, J.P.T.S. 1885, 30; cp….

adjective noun Before Buddhism used as honorific title of high officials like the English ʻHis Worship’; at the rise of Buddhism applied popularly to all ascetics (Dial. iii.3–⁠6). Adopted by the Bu …

…iv.2

Arahatta²

in -ghaṭi see araghaṭṭa.

adjective only in nt. “that which does not need to be guarded against”, what one does not need to heed, superfluous to beware of AN.iv.82 (cattāri Tathāgatassa a˚ āni).

3 arakkheyyāni are enumerated …

dislike, discontent, aversion Snp.270, Snp.436, Snp.642, Snp.938; Dhp.418 (= ukkaṇṭhitattaṃ Dhp-a.iv.225) Thig.339 (= ukkaṇṭhi Thag-a.239); Sdhp.476.

a + rati

the habit of one who lives in the forest, indulgence in solitude & sequestration a hermit’s practice, seclusion SN.ii.202, SN.ii.208 sq See also āraññakatta.

abstr. fr. araññaka

adjective noun

1. (racial) Aryan DN.ii.87.
2. (social) noble, distinguished, of high birth.
3. (ethical) in accord with the customs and ideals of the Aryan clans, held in esteem by Aryans, gene …

wound, a sore, only in compounds: -kāya a heap of sores MN.ii.64 = Dhp.147 = Thag.769 (= navannaṃ vaṇamukhānaṃ vasena arubhūta kāya Dhp-a.iii.109 = Vv-a.77); -gatta (adj.) with wounds in the b …

in phrase “arīhatta ariyo hoti” at AN.iv.145 is wrong reading for arīnaṃ hatattā. The whole phrase is inserted by mistake from a gloss explaining arahā in the foll. sentence “ārakattā kilesānaṃ arīnaṃ …

adjective = arūpa; DN.i.31 (arūpī attā hoti: see DN-a.i.119), DN.i.195; DN.iii.111, DN.iii.139; Iti.87 (rūpino va arūpino va sattā).

a + rūpin

adjective not clinging, not stuck, unattached Snp.38, Snp.71 (cp. Cnd.107) Dhp.221 (nāmarūpasmiṃ a. = alaggamana Dhp-a.iii.298).

ppr. med. of a + sajjati, sañj

adjective noun (act.) without enmity, friendly (med.) having no enemy or foe, secure peaceful DN.ii.276; Snp.150 (= vigata-paccatthika, mettavihārin Kp-a.249); Thig.512.

a + sapatta = Sk. sapatna

adjective not clinging or attached, free from attachment Snp.1059; Dhp.419; Cnd.107, Cnd.108; Dhp-a.iv.228.

pp. of a + sajjati

adjective unconscious, -sattā unconscious beings Name of a class of Devas DN.i.28 (cp. DN-a.i.118 and BSk. asaṃjñika-sattvāḥ Divy.505).

a + saññā

adjective not sticking to anything, free from attachment, unattached Thig.396 (˚mānasa, = anāsattacitta Thag-a.259); Mil.343. Cp. next.

a + sanga

adjective incalculable, innumerable, nt. an immense period AN.ii.142; Mil.232 (cattāri a.), Mil.289; Dhp-a.i.5, Dhp-a.i.83, Dhp-a.i.104.

a + sankheyya, grd. of saṃ- khyā

sword, a large knife DN.i.77 (= DN-a.i.222); MN.ii.99; AN.i.48 = (asinā sīsaṃ chindante); AN.iv.97 (asinā hanti attānaṃ); Ja.iv.118 (asi sunisito), Ja.iv.184; Ja.v.45 (here meaning “sickle”), Ja.v.47 …

Asita¹

having eaten, eating; (nt.) that which is eaten or enjoyed, food MN.i.57; AN.iii.30, AN.iii.32 (˚pīta-khāyita etc.); Pv-a.25 (id.); Ja.vi.555 ˚(āsana having enjoyed one’s food, sa …

Assattha¹

the holy fig-tree, Ficus, Religiosa the tree under which the Buddha attained enlightenment i.e. the Bo tree Vin.iv.35; DN.ii.4 (sammā-sambuddho assatthassa mūle abhisambuddho); …

Assu¹

neuter DN.i.115, DN.i.141; Dhp.67; Pp.56; DN-a.i.284; Pv-a.39. -mocana shedding of tears Pv-a.18.

Vedic aśru, Av. asrū, Lith aszarà, with etym. not definitel …

1. (lit.) breathing, esp. breathing out (so Vism.272), exhalation, opp. to passāsa inhalation, with which often comb^d. or contrasted; thus as cpd. assāsa-passāsa mea …

indeclinable copulative and adversative part.: and, also, and further, likewise, nay SN.i.106; Snp.43, Snp.155, Snp.647; Dhp.151, Dhp.234, Dhp.423; Ja.i.83; Ja.ii.185 Ja.iv.495; Iti.106; Kp.viii.7; Pv …

indeclinable adv. and prep of direction (forward motion), in primary meaning “on and further”, then “up to and beyond”.

I. in abstr position

adverbially (only as ttg.): in excess, extremel …

Ati-ussura

adjective only in loc. -e (adv.) too soon after sunrise, too early Vv-a.65 (laddhabhattatā eating too early).

“super”-sunshade, a sunshade of extraordinary size & colours Dhs-a.2.

ati + chatta

to go over, i.e. to overcome, surmount, conquer, get the better of, only in pret. (aor. 3^rd sg. accagā (q.v. and see gacchati 3) Snp.1040; Dhp.414 and accagamā (see *[ …

adjective too much attached to worldly matters SN.v.263.

ati + līna

attack, only in phrase pāṇātipāta destruction of life, slaying, killing, murder DN.i.4 (pāṇātipātā veramaṇī, refraining from killing, the first of the dasasīla or decalogue); DN-a.i.69 (= pāṇavadha …

adjective noun one who attacks or destroys Snp.248; Ja.vi.449 (in war nāgakkhandh˚ = hatthikkhande khaggena chinditvā C.); Pv-a.27 (pāṇ˚).

adjective being under somebody’s rule, dependent upon (c. gen.) Dhp.74 (= vase vattati Dhp-a.ii.79).

ati + vasa fr. vas

passed beyond, surpassed, overcome (act. & pass.), conquered Snp.1133 (bhava˚); Cnd.21 (= atikkanta, vītivatta); Ja.v.84 (bhaya˚) Mil.146, Mil.154.

pp. of ativattati: Sk. ativṛtta

Ativattar¹

one who insults or offends Ja.v.266 (isīnaṃ ativattāro dharusavācāhi atikkamitvā vattāro C.).

Sk. *ativaktṛ, n. ag. to ati-vacati; cp. ativākya

Ativattar²

one wh …

to pass, pass over, go beyond; to overcome, get over; conquer Vin.ii.237 (samuddo velaṃ n’); SN.ii.92 (saṃsāraṃ); SN.iv.158 (id.) Iti.9 (saṃsāraṃ) = AN.ii.10 = Cnd.172#a; Thag.412; Ja.i.58, Ja.i.280 J …

abuse, blame, reproach Dhp.320, Dhp.321 (= aṭṭha-anariyavohāra-vasena pavattaṃ vītikkama-vacanaṃ Dhp-a.iv.3) Ja.vi.508.

ati + vac, cp. Sk. ativāda, fr. ati + vad

adjective [Sk. *ātma-ja, corrupted form for attaja (see attā) through analogy with Sk. atra “here”. This form occurs only in Ja and similar sources, i.e. popular lore born from oneself, one’s own, a …

great desire, greed, excessive longing, insatiability Ja.iv.5, Ja.iv.327.

Sk. *atṛptyā, a + tṛpt + yā, influenced by Desid. titṛpsati, so that atricchā phonetically rather corresponds to a form * …

delighted pleased, enraptured DN.i.3, DN.i.90 (an˚); DN.ii.14; AN.iii.337 AN.iii.343; AN.iv.344; Snp.45 = Dhp.328 (= upaṭṭhita-satt Dhp-a.iv.29); Snp.995; Cnd.24 (= tuṭṭha-mano haṭṭha-mano etc.) V …

satisfaction, joy, pleasure, transport of mind MN.i.114; AN.i.276; AN.iv.62; Pp.18 (an˚) Dhs.9, Dhs.86, Dhs.418 (an˚); Pv-a.132; Vv-a.67 (an˚).

abstr. to prec.

atta (the latter is the form used in comp^n.)

I. Inflection

1. of attan- (n. stem); the foll. cases are the most freq:
   ■ acc. attānaṃ DN.i.13, DN.i.18 …

adjective belonging to the soul, having a soul, of the nature of soul, soul-like; usually nt. anything of the nature of soul MN.i.138 = Kv.67; MN.i.297 MN.ii.263; SN.iii.78 (yaṃ kho anattaniyaṃ whate …

… 2. affair, cause, case (cp. aṭṭa² and Lat. causa) Dhp.256, Dhp.331; Mil.47 (kassa atthaṃ dhāresi whose cause do you support, with…

reason, cause; only in abl. atthattā according to the sense, by reason of, on account of Pv-a.189 (-˚).

abstr. fr. attha¹

adjective without shelter or protection Ja.i.229; Mil.148, Mil.325; Thag-a.285.

a + tāṇa

adjective noun

1. (temporal) past, gone by (cp. accaya 1)
   1. adj.; atītaṃ addhānaṃ in the time which is past SN.iii.86; AN.iv.219; AN.v.32
      ■ Pv.ii.12#12 (atītānaṃ, scil. attabhāvāuaṃ par …

Ava˚

prefix

I. Relation between ava & o

Phonetically the difference between ava & o is this, that; ava is the older form, whereas o represents a later development. Histor …

cut, cut open, cut off Ja.iv.251 (galak’ âvakantaṃ).

for *avakatta, Sk. avakṛtta; pp. of avakantati, see kanta²

see opatta.

(-˚) neuter stopping ceasing; end, finish, conclusion Ja.i.87 (bhattakicc-âvasāne at the end of the meal); Pv-a.76 (id.).

for osāna

limb, member, constituent, part Vv-a.53 (sarīra˚ = gattā). Vv-a.168 Vv-a.201, Vv-a.276; Pv-a.211 (sarīra˚ = gattā), Pv-a.251 (mūl˚ the fibres of the root). As t. t. g. at Snp-a.397. In the comm …

adverb the prep. ava in adv. use, down, downward; in C. often expl^d. by adho. Rarely absolute, the only passage found so far being Snp.685 (avaṃ sari he went down, variant …

state or condition of not being manifest or visible, concealment, hiding Dhp-a.ii.38.

abstr. fr. avyatta

adjective untouched, unimpaired DN.i.182 (˚sukha = kilesa vyāseka-virahitattā avyāseka DN-a.i.183); Pp.59.

a + vy + āseka

adjective at random, without discrimination, careless Ja.i.496 (= avyatta C.).

a + vyāyata of yam

…Dhp-a.iii.67

• -paṭṭaka an iron plate or sheet (cp. loha˚) Ja.v.359
• -paṭhavi an iron floor (of…

pronoun demonstr. pron. “this, he”; f. ayaṃ; nt. idaṃ & imaṃ “this, it” etc. This pron. combines in its inflection two stems, viz. as˚; (ayaṃ in nom. m. & f.) & im˚; (id in nom. nt.).

I. Form …

…Dhp-a.iii.67

• -paṭṭaka an iron plate or sheet (cp. loha˚) Ja.v.359
• -paṭhavi an iron floor (of…

ointment, esp. a collyrium for the eyes, made of antimony, adj. anointed, smeary glossy, black (cp. kaṇha ii. and kāla¹ note).

1. Vin.i.203 (five kinds viz. kāḷ˚, ras˚, sot˚, geruka, kapal …

pronoun another etc

A. By itself

1. other not the same, different, another, somebody else (opp oneself) Vin.iii.144 (aññena, scil. maggena, gacchati to take a different route); Snp.459, Sn …

1. change, alteration SN.iii.37; SN.iv.40; AN.i.153; AN.iii.66; Kv.227 (= jarā C, cp Kvu trsl. 55 n. 2); Mil.209.
2. difference Ja.i.147; Iti.11.
3. erroneous supposition, mistake Vin.ii.2; SN.iii.9 …

adverb elsewhere, somewhere else Ja.v.252; Pv.iv.1#62. In comp^n. also añña˚, e.g. aññatra-yoga (adj.) following another discipline DN.i.187; MN.i.487
■ As prep. c. abl. (and instr.) but …

knowledge, recognition, perfect knowledge, philosophic insight, knowledge par excellence, viz. Arahantship, saving knowledge gnosis (cp. on term Compend. 176 n. 3 and Psalms of Brethren introd. xx …

Aḍḍha¹

(& addha) one half, half; usually in comp^n. (see below), like diyaḍḍha 1 1/2 (˚sata 150) Pv-a.155 (see as to meaning Stede, Peta Vatthu p. 107). Note. aḍḍha is nev …

…-vaṭṭaka a shoulder strap (mostly combined with kāyabandhana; vv.ll. ˚vaddhaka ˚bandhaka) Vin.i.204 (T….

1. (lit.) a constituent part of the body, a limb, member; also of objects: part, member (see cpd. ˚sambhāra); uttam˚aṅga the reproductive organ Ja.v.197; also as “head” at Thag-a.209. Usually in cp …

…a signet ring Vin.ii.106; Ja.iv.498; Ja.v.439, Ja.v.467

• -saṅghaṭṭana˚; = poṭha DN-a.i.256.

Vedic angulī & ˚i; see anga

finger Ja.iii.13 (pañc˚); Ja.v.204 (vaṭṭ˚ = pavāḷ˚ ankurasadisā vaṭṭangulī Ja.v.207). See also pañcangulika. Anguli & Anguli;

= angulī

…a signet ring Vin.ii.106; Ja.iv.498; Ja.v.439, Ja.v.467

• -saṅghaṭṭana˚; = poṭha DN-a.i.256.

Vedic angulī & ˚i; see anga

adjective small, minute, atomic, subtle (opp. thūla, q.v.) DN.i.223; SN.i.136; SN.v.96 (˚bīja); Snp.299 (anuto aṇuṃ gradually); Ja.iii.12 (= appamattaka); Ja.iv.203; Dhs.230, Dhs.61 …

…tries to establish a relation to ard, as in aṭṭa³

…Sayings* i.291) trsls “buskined shoes”.

cp. Sk. aṭṭa & aṭṭālaka stronghold

…Vin.iii.322 Vin.iii.372; DN-a.i.209.

Demin. of aṭṭa¹

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 …

adjective

1. eightfold Vin.i.196 = Ud.59 (˚vaggikāni); Vv-a.75 = Dhp-a.iii.104 (˚bhatta).
2. ˚ā (f.) the eight day of the lunar month (cp. aṭṭhamī), in phrase rattīsu antar’aṭṭhakāsu in the night …

Aṭṭhi˚¹

in comb^n. with katvā: to make something one’s attha, i.e. object, to find out the essence or profitableness or value of anything to recognise the natu …

…& Attiyati;

Sk. ardita, pp. of ardayati, Caus. of ardati see aṭṭa³

…e.g. Thig.140
pp aṭṭita & addita.

Denom. fr. aṭṭa³, q.v.

…e.g. Thig.140
pp aṭṭita & addita.

Denom. fr. aṭṭa³, q.v.

…Ja.v.373; Mil.1, Mil.330; Dhp-a.iii.488.

from aṭṭa

Err:509

at Vin.ii.106 is obscure, should it not rather be read with Bdhgh as aṭṭhāna? (cp. Bdhgh on p. 315).

Baddha¹

1. bound, in bondage MN.i.275; SN.i.133; SN.iv.91; Snp.957 (interpreted as “baddhacara by Mnd.464); Dhp.324.
2. snared, trapped Ja.ii.153 Ja.iii.184; Ja.iv.251, Ja.iv.414.
3. made f …

thickness, swollen condition, swelling Ja.i.147.

abstr. fr. above

adverb outside (adv. & prep.) DN.i.16; DN.ii.110; SN.i.169; SN.iii.47, SN.iii.103 SN.iv.205; SN.v.157; Vin.iii.113 (˚rūpa opp. ajjhatta-rūpa Snp.203; Vb-a.260 (kāye); Dhp-a.i.211 (c. gen); Dhp-a.i …

adjective to strengthen, cp. upabrūhana, paribbūḷha much, many, large, abundant; plenty; in compound also very, greatly (˚-) instr. sg. bahunā Dhp.166; nom. pl bahavo Vin.iii.90; Dhp.307, & *bahū …

adverb many times Mil.215.

bahu + khattuṃ, like sattakkhattuṃ, ti˚ etc.

Bahulī˚

in compound with kar = bahula (adj.) + kar, lit. “to make much of,” i.e. to practise, in foll. words: -kata (pp. practised (frequently), usually combined with bhāvita SN.ii.264; SN.iv …

adjective abundant, much Thig.406 (˚ratana, so read for bahuta˚), Thig.435 (for bahutadhana); Ja.iii.425 (bahūtam ajjaṃ “plenty of food”; ajja = sk. ādya, with kern,

Toevoegselen

s. v. bahūta for …

Bala¹

neuter

1. strength power, force DN.ii.73; AN.i.244; Thag.188; Dhp.109 (one of the 4 blessings, viz. āyu, vaṇṇa, sukha, bala; cp Dhp-a.ii.239); Pv.i.5#12 (= kāya-bala Pv-a.30); Pv …

strength, only in cpd. dubbalatta weakness Ja.ii.154.

abstr. fr. bala, cp. balatā

strength, force (see [in military sense](/define/in military sense)) Ja.ii.369 (ārakkhassa b.); Mil.101 (kusalassa & akusalassa kammassa b.).

abstr. fr. balavant; cp. Epic Sk. balavattā

as variant reading of vaṭṭaka see *aṃsa*˚.

…of the house); Kp-a.51 (paṭṭa˚). 3. holding together, composition, constitution Vin.i.96 (sarīra˚) cp. Vin.iii.28
■ fig….

1. a relation, relative, kinsman; pl. bandhū Ja.iv.301; Pv-a.86 (= ñātī) & bandhavo Cnd.455 (where Mnd.11 in id. p. reads bandhū)
   ■ Ādicca˚; kinsman of the Sun an epithet of the Buddha Vin …

adjective

1. able, capable, fit for (-˚ or with dat. or inf.); abhabba unfit, incapable Vin.i.17; SN.iii.27 (dukkha-kkhayāya); SN.iv.89 (id.) Pp.12, Pp.13; Vism.116 (bhikkhu), neg. Iti.106 (antakir …

luck, lot, fortune, only in cpd. dub˚; (adj.) unhappy, unpleasant uncomfortable Iti.90; DN-a.i.96 (˚karaṇa)
■ bhaga (in verse “bhagehi ca vibhattavā” in exegesis of word “Bhaga …

to associate with (acc.), keep companionship with, follow, resort to; to be attached to (acc.), to love. Freq. syn. of sevati. The Dhtp & Dhtm mark the fig. meaning (bhaj^{2</su …}

adjective loving, attached to, worshipping Mnd.142 (in explⁿ of “Bhagavā”).

fr. bhajati

turmoil, confusion Dhs.429 (= vibhanti-bhāva Dhs-a.260, so read for vibhatti˚) cp. Dhs trsl. 120.

fr. bhanta

to bear, support, feed maintain Ja.v.260 (mama bharatha, ahaṃ bhattā bhavāmi vo; C. explains as “maṃ icchatha”)
pp bhata See also bhaṭa, bhara, bharita, and Der. fr. bhār˚. A curi …

bhasta (nt.)

1. a bellows Thag.1134; Ja.vi.12 (vāta-puṇṇa-bhasta-camma, skin of bellows full of wind); Snp-a.171 (vāta-pūrita-bhastrā viya), Snp-a.494 (vātabharita˚); Dhp- …

feeding, food, nourishment, meal Dhp.185; Pp.28, Pp.55; Ja.ii.15; Ja.v.170 (bhatta-manuñña-rūpaṃ for bhattaṃ-); Vism.66 (where 14 kinds enumerated, i.e. sangha˚ uddesa˚ etc.); Sdhp.118
■ ucchiṭṭh …

husband; nom. sg. bhattā Thig.413; Ja.v.104, Ja.v.260 (here in meaning “supporter”); Ja.vi.492; gen. bhattu Ja.v.169, Ja.v.170; acc bhattāraṃ Thig.412.

Vedic bhartṛ to bhṛ.

adjective possessing reverence or worship(pers), worshipful, adored; in a (late) verse analysing fancifully the word “Bhagavant, at DN-a.i.34 = Vism.210 sq. Explained at Vism.212 by “bhaji-sevi-bah …

1. devotion, attachment, fondness Pp.20; Dhs.1326 (cp. Dhs trsl. 345); Pp.65; Ja.v.340 (= sineha C.); Ja.vi.349; Vv-a.353, Vv-a.354.
2. in bhatti-kata Thig.413 it means “service,” thus “doing s …

adjective (-˚) in dhuva˚; being in constant supply of food, being a regular attendant (servant) or adviser Vin.ii.15. Also at Thag-a.267 in meaning “being a servant, working for food” in expl ^…

to become, to be, exist, behave etc. (cp. Cnd.474 sambhavati jāyati nibbattati pātu-bhavati)

I. Forms

There are two bases used side by side, viz bhav˚; and (contracted) ho˚; the latte …

the fact of being, state, condition Kp-a.227.

abstr. fr. bhū

Bhañjana¹

neuter breakage, breaking down, break, only in cpd. akkha˚; break of the axle Vism.32 Vism.45; Dhp-a.i.375; Pv-a.277.

fr. bhañjati

Bhañjana²

neuter anointing, s …

to hire; originally the same as bhṛtya fr. bhṛta & bhṛti of; bhṛ Dhtp.94, Dhtm.114
■ bhaṭa = bhatyaṃ i.e. bhṛtyaṃ servant, hireling, soldier Mil.240; Vv-a.305 (bhattavetana˚). As to suggestion of …

Bhaṭṭha¹

dropped, fallen down Ja.i.482; Ja.iv.222, Ja.iv.382; Ja.v.444. Cp. pari˚.

pp. of bhraṃś, see bhassati

Bhaṭṭha²

spoken, said Vv.63#19 (su˚ = s …

1. breaking (open), in puṭa˚; breaking of the seed-boxes (of the Pāṭali plant), idiomatic for “merchandise” Mil.1 See under puṭa.
2. (fig.) breach, division, destruction AN.iv.247 …

breaking up, splitting, perishing; destruction Ja.i.392; Ja.v.284; Ja.vi.11; Dhp-a.i.257 (kaṇṇā bhijjan’ ākāra-pattā); Thag-a.43 (bhijjana-sabhāva of perishable nature; explⁿ of bhidura …

an almsman, a mendicant, a Buddhist monk or priest, a bhikkhu.
■ nom. sg. bhikkhu freq. passim; Vin.iii.40 (vuḍḍhapabbajita); AN.i.78 (thera bh., an elder bh.; and nava bh. …

to split, break, sever destroy, ruin. In two bases: *bhid (with der. *bhed) *bhind;

1. *bhid: aor. 3^rd sg. abhida (= Sk abhidat) DN.ii.107; Ja.iii.29 (see als …

state of being broken or destroyed, destruction AN.iv.144.

fr. bhinna

adverb still more, more and more, only in cpd. -mattāya [cp. BSk. bhūyasyā mātrāya Mvu.ii.345; Divy.263 & passim exceedingly, abundantly AN.i.124 = Pp.30 (explained at Pp-a 212 by “bhiyyoso-mattā …

food, meal, nourishment in general Ja.ii.218; Ja.iv.103, Ja.iv.173; Ja.i.178; Ja.iv.223; Snp.102 Snp.128, Snp.242, Snp.366, Snp.667; Dhp.7, Dhp.70; Pp.21, Pp.55; Mil.370 Vism.69, Vism.106; Sdhp.52, Sd …

adjective having eaten, one who has eaten Ja.v.170 (= kata-bhatta-kicca); Vv-a.244.

bhutta + vant

adjective having eaten, one who has had a meal nom. sg. bhuttāvī Vin.iv.82; Mil.15 (+ onīta-pattapāṇi); Pv-a.23 (+ pavārita); Snp-a.58; instr. bhuttāvinā Vin.iv.82; gen. d …

1. part, portion, fraction, share Vin.i.285; Snp.427 (sahassa-bhāgo maraṇassa = sahassaṃ bhāgānaṃ assā ti Snp-a.387; a thousand times a share of death, i.e. very near death, almost quite dead), Snp. …

Bhājana¹

neuter a bowl, vessel, dish, usually earthenware, but also of other metal, e.g. gold (suvaṇṇa˚) DN-a.i.295; copper (tamba˚ Dhp-a.i.395; bronze (kaṃsa˚) Vism.142 (in simile). Vin …

1. anything to carry, a load Vin.iii.278 (Bdhgh; dāru˚ a load of wood) bhāraṃ vahati to carry a load AN.i.84; Vv-a.23
   ■ garu˚ a heavy load, as “adj.” “carrying a heavy load” Ja.v.439 (of a w …

1. being, becoming, condition, nature; very rarely by itself (only in later & C. literature, as e.g. Ja.i.295 thīnaṃ bhāvo, perhaps best to be translated as “women’s character,” taking bhāva = attabhā …

adjective “being as ought to be, to be cultivated, to be respected, in a self-composed state (cp. bhāvitatta) MN.i.33 (garu + ; explained by Bdhgh as “addhā ’yam āyasmā jānaṃ jānāti passaṃ passatī t …

to beget, produce, increase, cultivate, develop (by means of thought meditation), The Buddhist equivalent for mind-work as creative in idea, MN.i.293; cp. B.Psy p. 132
■ DN.ii.79; MN.ii.11 (cattā …

Bhāvitatta¹

adjective one whose attan (ātman) is bhāvita, i.e. well trained or composed Attan here = citta (as Pv-a.139), thus “self-composed well-balanced” AN.iv.26; Snp.277, Snp.322, …

Pass. to bharati, only in cpd. ppr. anubhīramāna MN.iii.123 (chatta: being brought up,or carried behind) Neumann, M. trsl.²iii.248 translates “über ihm schwebt,” & proposes reading (on p. …

…(kusala), Dhp-a.i.305 (˚vaṭṭa); Dhp-a.iv.69 (tebhūmaka-vaṭṭa-sankhātaṃ Māra-bandhanaṃ), Dhp-a.iv.72 (dhammā) catu˚; in 4…

…(kusala), Dhp-a.i.305 (˚vaṭṭa); Dhp-a.iv.69 (tebhūmaka-vaṭṭa-sankhātaṃ Māra-bandhanaṃ), Dhp-a.iv.72 (dhammā) catu˚; in 4…

destroyer of beings Snp.664 (voc. bhūnahu, explained by Snp-a.479 as “bhūti-hanaka vuddhi-nāsaka”; vv.ll. bhūnahaṭa bhūnahoṭa, bhūhata, all showing the difficulty of the archaic word); Ja.v.266 (pl …

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 …

the fact of having grown, become or being created (i.e. being creatures or part of creation) Vism.310 (in def. of bhūtā); MN-a.i.32 (id.).

abstr. fr. bhūta

1. shape, image (= paṭimā Vv-a.168) SN.i.134 (trsl. “puppet”); SN.v.217 (vimba) Ja.v.452. In phrase cittakataṃ bimbaṃ it refers to the human body (“the tricked-out puppet-shape” Brethren 303): …

(or bimbī) gold, of golden colour DN-a.i.280 = Snp-a.448 (in Bdhgh’s fanciful etym of king Bimbisāra, viz. bimbī ti suvaṇṇaṃ, sārasuvaṇṇa-sadisa-vaṇṇatāya B.).

• *-[jāla](/def …

1. a drop, usually a drop of water Snp.392, Snp.812 (uda˚); Ja.i.100; Vism.531 (madhu˚) Thag-a.281; Pv-a.98 (udaka˚).
2. a spot (cp. SBE xvii.155) Vism.222 (˚vicitvā gāvī a spotted cow).
3. (as adj. …

cat DN.ii.83; MN.i.128, MN.i.334; SN.ii.270; AN.iii.122 (viḷāra); AN.v.202, AN.v.289; Thag.1138; Ja.i.461 (as representing deceit), Ja.i.480; Ja.v.406, Ja.v.416, Ja.v.418; Mil.118; Dhp-a.ii.152; Pp- …

adjective capable of being enlightened, to be taught the truth Bv.2, Bv.195 (jana); Mil.169 (yena yogena bodhaneyyā sattā bujjhanti tena y. bodheti); otherwise in combination bodhaneyya-bandhavo th …

Bodhi¹

feminine (supreme knowledge, enlightenment, the knowledge possessed by a Buddha (see also sambodhi & sammā-sambodhi) MN.i.356; MN.ii.95 = DN.iii.237 (saddho h …

factor or constituent of knowledge or wisdom. There are 7 bojjhangas usually referred to or understood from the context. There are enumerated at several places, e.g. at DN.iii.106, where they are ment …

Brahma & Brahmā

I. Brahman

neuter [cp. Vedic bráhman nt. prayer; nom. sg bráhma]

1. the supreme good; as a buddhistic term used in a sense different from the brahmanic (save in controvers …

state of a Brahma god, existence in the Br. world Vb.337; Vism.301 Vb-a.437; Dhp-a.i.110. brahmattabhāva is to be read as brahm’ attabhāva (see under brahma).

abstr. fr. brahma

at Ja.iii.207 (of a castle) is probably to be read brahmuttara “even higher than Brahmā,” i.e. unsurpassed, magnificent. C. explains by suvaṇṇa- pāsāda.

Brahma & Brahmā

I. Brahman

neuter [cp. Vedic bráhman nt. prayer; nom. sg bráhma]

1. the supreme good; as a buddhistic term used in a sense different from the brahmanic (save in controvers …

Brāhmaṇa¹

a member of the Brahman caste; a Br teacher. In the Buddhist terminology also used for a man leading a pure, sinless & ascetic life, often even syn. with arahant
■ On brāhmaṇas …

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 …

state of (perfect) enlightenment, (attainment of) Buddhahood Ja.iii.363 (sabbadhammānaṃ b.); Vism.209 (buddhattā Buddho) Mhbv.12. Cp. buddhatā and abhisambuddhatta.

abstr. fr. buddha

enlightenment, wisdom Dhp-a.iv.228; Thag-a.4 (Buddha-subuddhatā)
■ Cp. buddhatta.

abstr. fr. buddha

awakening, attaining to knowledge, recognition Pts.i.18; Mil.194; DN-a.i.51.

fr. budh

to be awake, to be enlightened in (acc.), to perceive, to know, recognise, understand DN.ii.249; SN.i.74, SN.i.198; Dhp.136, Dhp.286; Thag.146; Ja.iii.331; Ja.iv.49 Ja.iv.425; Mil.165, Mil.348 (pot. b …

adjective experienced, learned Mil.21.

cp. P. vyatta; Sk. vyakta

experience, learning Mil.349. See also pari˚.

fr. byatta

Vyābādha & byābādha

oppression, injury, harm, hurting; usually in phrase atta˚ & para˚; (disturbing the peace of others of oneself) MN.i.89; SN.iv.339; AN.i.114, AN.i.157, AN.i.216; AN.ii.179-Also …

evil, wrong, hurt; usually referred to as 3 fold: atta˚, para˚, ubhaya˚, or against oneself against others, & both-MN.i.416; SN.iv.159 (vyā˚), SN.iv.339.

vy + ā + bādh

attached to, clinging to, in cpd. -mānasa possessed with longing Dhp.47 (= sampatte vā asampatte vā lagga-mānasa Dhp-a.i.361), Dhp.287 (cp. Dhp-a.iii.433; lagganatāya sattamānasa).

pp. of vy + …

the fact of being oppressive or injurious Vism.496.

abstr. fr. bādhaka

being outside (of the individual), externality Vism.450.

abstr. fr. bāhira

keeping out, exclusion Cnd.464 (in explⁿ of word brāhmaṇa).

abstr. fr. bāhita

Bāla¹

adjective

1. ignorant (often with ref. to ignorance in a moral sense, of the common people, the puthujjana) foolish (as contrasted with paṇḍita cp. the Bālapaṇḍita-sutta MN.iii.163 …

1. seed, germ, semen, spawn. Used very frequently in figurative sense: see on similes J.P.T.S. 1907, 116
   ■ DN.i.135 (˚bhatta seed-corn food); DN.iii.44 (the five kinds: see below under ˚gāma) …

(indef. enclitic particle)

1. Indefinite (after demonstr. pron. in the sense of kiṃ = what about? or how is it? cp. kiṃ) = ever, whoever what-ever, etc. [Sk. kaśca, Gr. ὁς τε, Lat: quisque Goth. h …

1. to let loose, to emit, to discharge AN.ii.33; Ja.ii.342 (mutta karīsaṃ) fig. to utter (a speech) Ja.v.362.
2. to abandon to give up, sacrifice (with loc. of person to whom Asuresu pāṇaṃ SN.i.224 = …

…See also cakkavattin; -vaṭṭaka (nt. a scoop-wheel (a wheel revolving over a well with a string of earthen pots…

the eye (nom. sg. cakkhuṃ) Vin.i.34; SN.i.115; MN.iii.134 etc.)

I. The eye as organ of sense

1. psychologically cakkhunā rūpaṃ disvā “seeing visible object (shape with the eye” (Nd ii.on …

1. skin, hide, leather Vin.i.192 (sīha˚ vyaggha˚ dīpi˚), Vin.i.196 (elaka˚ aja˚ miga˚) AN.iv.393 (sīha˚ dīpi˚); Pv-a.157 (kadalimiga˚ as rug) Ja.ii.110 (sīha˚); Ja.iii.82, Ja.iii.184; Mil.53; Sdhp.14 …

sandal (tree wood or unguent, also perfume) Vin.i.203; AN.i.9, AN.i.145 AN.i.226; AN.iii.237; Dhp.54; Ja.v.420 (tree, m.); Mil.382; Dhp-a.i.422; Dhp-a.iv.189 (˚pūjā); Vv-a.158 (agalu˚ with aloe & s …

in cpd. paripuṇṇa˚; state or condition of the full moon Snp-a.502.

abstr. fr. canda

to move about, to “live and move,” to behave, to be
imper act. cara (Ja.i.152), carā (metri causa, Ja.iii.393); imper. med. carassu (Snp.696), pl. carāmase (= exhortative, Snp.32); -ppr. caranto …

1. (adj.) going, moving, being like, behaving (-˚) Ja.vi.313; Mil.92 (rāgac˚ = ratta); Vism.105, Vism.114 (rāga˚, dosa˚, moha˚ etc.).
2. (nt.) action, behaviour, living Dhp.330 (ekassa c. living alon …

given up. sacrificed AN.ii.41; AN.iii.50; Thag.209 (˚vaṇṇa who has lost fame); Ja.ii.336; Ja.iv.195 Ja.v.41 (˚jīvita).

pp. of cajati

the fact of giving up, abandonment, resignation. Vb.254f. Dhs-a.381

fr. catta

(& cattālīsa) forty SN.ii.85; Snp.p.87; Iti.99≈. Usually cattāḷīsa Ja.i.58; Ja.v.433; Dhp-a.i.41; Dhp-a.ii.9. 93.

• -danta having 40 teeth (one of the characteristics of a Mahāp …

adjective having forty MN.iii.77.

Catukka¹

neuter

1. a tetrad, a set of four, consisting of four parts: ˚pañcakajjhānā (pl.) the fourfold & the fivefold system of meditation Dhs-a.168; see compounds
2. a place where four …

…Ja.i.152 Ja.iii.82; -parivaṭṭa (cp. aṭṭha ˚adhideva-ñāṇadassana AN.iv.304) fourfold circle SN.iii.59 sq….

ordinal number the fourth Snp.97 Snp.99, Snp.450; Ja.iii.55; Ja.vi.367; ˚ṃ (adv.) for the fourth time Dhp-a.iii.174
■ f. catutthī Snp.436; Vism.338
■ See also (s.v. Aḍḍha) aḍḍhuḍḍha.

• *-[bha …

1. walking up & down SN.iv.104
2. the place where one is walking, esp. a terraced walk, cloister Vin.i.15 Vin.i.182; Vin.ii.220; DN.i.105; SN.i.212; AN.i.114; AN.i.183; AN.iii.29 AN.iv.87; Ja.i.17; Ja …

state of ceto in action, thinking as active thought, intention, purpose, will Defined as action (kamma: AN.iii.415; cp. Kvu.viii.9 § 38 untraced quotation; cp. AN.v.292). Often comb …

Cinteti & ceteti

Forms

1. cint:
   pres cinteti
   pot cinteyya;
   ppr cintento & cintayanto (Snp.834)
   aor cintesi, 3rd pl. cintesuṃ (Ja.i.149), acintayuṃ (Snp.258)
   ger ci …

tumulus, sepulchral monument, cairn, MN.i.20; Dhp.188; Ja.i.237; Ja.vi.173; Snp-a.194 (dhātu-gharaṃ katvā cetiyaṃ patiṭṭhāpesuṃ); Kp-a.221; Dhp-a.iii.29 (dhātu˚) Dhp-a.iv.64); Vv-a.142; Sdhp.428 …

Cha & Chaḷ

(cha in composition effects gemination of consonant, e.g. chabbīsati = cha + vīsati, chabbaṇṇa cha + vaṇṇa, chaḷ only before vowels in compound chaḷanga, chaḷ-abhiññā) the number six.

…

…(vivattha˚ variant reading vaṭṭa˚) & DN-a.i.251 (vivatta˚), otherwise -chadda -shelter, clothing in phrase ghāsacchada Pp.51 (see…

to be firm or rigid, fig. to be stiff with fear, paralysed: see chambhin & chambhitatta, Cp. ūrukhambha (under khambha²).

cp. Sk. skabhnāti & stabhnāti; skambh, and …

Only in der. chambhitatta (nt.) the state of being stiff, paralysis, stupefaction consternation, always combined with other expressions of fear, viz. uttāsa SN.v.386; bhaya Ja.i.345 (where spelled cha …