almost dead, near to death.

Amata: Sanskrit amrta Not to die = Deathlessness, immortality, is a name for Nibbāna the final liberation from the wheel of rebirths…

…dhātuṃ = ambrosial state or Amṛta as dhātu).

see amata¹

in anāmata at Ja.ii.56 is métric for amata.

A Therī. Two verses attributed to her are found in the Therigatha. Thig.33–34

…Vāmadeva, Vessāmitta, Yamataggi, Bhāradvāja, Vāseṭṭha, Kassapa and Bhagu. The list occurs in several places. Vin.i.245 AN.iii.224…

…Vāmadeva, Vessāmitta, Yamataggi, Aṅgīrasa, Bhāradvāja, Vāseṭṭha and Bhagu), Vin.i.245 DN.i.104 as the ancient sages of the brahmins….

A grove in the Bhagga country. It contained a Deer Park wherein the Buddhastayed, on Suṃsumāragiri. Nearby was the house in which lived Nakulapitā and Nakulamātā. AN.ii.61 AN.iii.295 SN.iii.1 SN.iv.11 …

The son of Sudinna Kalandakaputta by the wife of his lay days. He was conceived after Sudinna had already been ordained. His wife came to him during her period and begged him to give her an offspring. …

A region in India. It contained the city of Vedisa. Dakkhiṇāgiri lay to the south-west of Rājagaha, beyond the hills that surrounded the city—hence its name. In the district was the brahmin village o …

The name given to the monastery erected by Visākhā Migāramātā in the Pubbārāma, to the east of Sāvatthī. It is said that, one day, when Visākhā had gone to the monastery to hear the Dhamma and afterwa …

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 …

RāhulamātāBimbāBhaddakaccāYasodharāBhaddakaccānāBimbāsundarīBimbādevīSubhaddakā

The name, generally given in the texts, of Rāhula’s mother Vin.i.82 and Gotama’s wife.

On the seventh day of the Buddh …

SigālakamātāSiṅgālakamātāSigālamātāSiṅgālamātā

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

An eminent laywoman, disciple of the Buddha. AN.iv.348

A bhikkhunī whose Therīgāthā verses celebrate her freedom from household drudgery and her brutal husband. Thig.23–24

A Yakkhinī, mother of Punabbasu and Uttarā. Once as she passed Jetavana at sunset looking for food, with her daughter on her hip and holding her son by his finger, she saw the assembly, intently liste …

A diminutive form of Uttarā used by Uttaramātā, the Yakkhinī, in addressing her daughter. SN.i.210

Uttarā¹

A bhikkhunī whose Therīgāthā verses tell of her awakening. Thig.15

Uttarā²

The Therīgāthā contains seven verses uttered by her after becoming an arahant, the result of …

Vaḍḍhamātā>

An arahant, mother of Vaḍḍha. Her conversation with Vaḍḍha and his declaration to her after becoming an arahant are included in the Therīgāthā. Thig.204–212

VeḷukaṇḍaVeḷukaṇṭa

A city in Avanti. Moggallāna and Sāriputta visited the place in the course of a journey in Dakkhiṇāgiri and were entertained by Nandamātā. AN.iv.62f.

22.85379, 82.155763town

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

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

A sage of old who led a good life and persuaded his followers to do likewise. He was among the originators of the Vedic hymns. Vin.i.245 DN.i.238 DN.i.239 MN.ii.169 MN.ii.200 AN.iii.224 AN.iii.229 AN.iv.61

constantly ailing

which part mother and son.

without beginning (or end, generally of saṃsāra).

not despised; honored

despised.

who has been dead for one day, being a day old corpse

delight in solitude

son-in-law.

son-in-law.

son-in-law.

imperat. 3 sg.

felt covering for a knife.

the having an inevitable outcome; a state of certainty, an assured or determined state; a rule.

in the highest degree?; at the end of ignorance?

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 …

Immortality: see: amata.

adjective & adverb ˚-

1. uninterrupted, continuous, perpetual Ja.i.223; Mil.413; Vv-a.71; Pv-a.73, Pv-a.125, Pv-a.266; Sdhp.288.
2. final, absolute, complete; adv. thoroughly SN.i.130 (˚ṃ hatapu …

…Pv-a.37); Pv.iii.7#10 (amataṃ padaṃ). opt. adhigaccheyya DN.i.224 (kusalaṃ dhammaṃ) MN.i.114…

…by adhigata); Vv.50#21 (amataṃ santiṃ; expl^d. Vv-a.215 by variant reading SS adhigañchi, T. adhigacchati).

adhi + agā…

? at Vv-a.111, acc. to Hardy (Index) “a precious stone of dark blue colour”.

Ana-

negative prefix, contained in anappameyya, (Thag.1089), anamatagga & anabhava. See Vinaya Texts ii.113.

…Sdhp.505. [Cp. anāmata and amatagga and cp. the English idiom “world without end” The meaning can best be seen, not from the derivation (which…

…1884, 70 = ana-mha “unlaughing” with ana = an (cp. anabhāva anamatagga) and mha from; smi, cp. vimhayati = Sk vismayati

adjective not affected by death, immortal Ja.ii.56 (asusāna-ṭṭhāna C.); Dhp-a.ii.99.

an + amata the ā being due to metrical lengthening

…Vin.i.5 (apāpur’ etaṃ Amatassa dvāraṃ: imper. where id. p. SN.i.137 has avāpur˚, T., but variant reading apāpur˚) Vv.64#27…

…Vin.i.5 (apāpur’ etaṃ Amatassa dvāraṃ: imper. where id. p. SN.i.137 has avāpur˚, T., but variant reading apāpur˚) Vv.64#27…

…(˚dvāra).

Sk. apāvṛta, pp. of…

…Vāmadeva, Vessāmitta, Yamataggi, Angirasa Bhāradvāja, Vāseṭṭha, Kassapa, Bhagu Vin.i.245; DN.i.104; AN.iii.224; AN.iv.61; cp. Vv-a.265…

1. impulse, excitement; intention, resolution, will desire for, wish for, delight in (c. loc.). Explained at Vism.466 as “kattu-kāmatāy” adhivacanaṃ; by Dhtp.587 & Dhtm.821 as; chand = icchāyaṃ …

…i.e. a cloud Dāvs.v.32; amatamagga Sdhp.1; uḷāraphala˚ ib. Sdhp.26; maṁsa˚ Pgdp.49, etc.

Suffix of dā, see…

god, a divine being; usually in pl. devā the gods. As title attributed to any superhuman being or beings regarded to be in certain respects above the human level. Thus primarily (see 1^a) …

…pavattā atthassa ninnetā Amatassa dātā dhammassāmī SN.iv.94; & similarly “yo kho Dhammaṃ passati so mam passati; yo mam passati so…

…in the foll. connections: amata˚ Iti.62; bhū˚ the verbal root bhū DN-a.i.229; ṭhapitāya dhātuyā “while the bodily element, i.e….

kettle-drum, in; Amata˚; the drum of Nibbāna Vin.i.8 = MN.i.171 (dundubhi at the latter passage); Pv-a.189 (variant reading for…

…reading dudrabhi)
■ Amata˚ the drum of Nibbāna MN.i.171 = Vin.i.8 (: dudrabhi); deva˚ thunder DN.ii.156; AN.iv.311.

Sk. dundubhi,…

…door leading to Nibbāna: amata˚; SN.i.137; AN.v.346. 2. (fig.) the doors = in- & outlets of the mind, viz. the sense organs; in phrase…

adjective proud, arrogant Ja.ii.340 (˚bhāva = issariya); Ja.iii.264 (˚sabhāva = dittasabhāva); Sum. V. on DN.iii.153 (= avamata).

1. 1. in special sense: a meeting or a chapter of (two or three bhikkhus, a company (opposed both to sangha, the order & puggala, the individual) Vin.i.58, Vin.i.74, Vin.i.195, Vin.i.197 Vin.ii.170, V …

…nibbāna dhamma Snp.233; amata-gāmi-magga SN.v.8; udayatthagāmiṇī paññā AN.v.15; dukkhanirodha˚ paṭipadā Vin.i.10; cp. ācaya˚…

adjective

1. green, pale(-green), yellowish. It is explained by Dhpāla as nīla (e.g. Vv-a.197; Pv-a.158), and its connotation is not fixed
   ■ Vin.i.137; DN.i.148; SN.i.5; Ja. …

…SN.v.220 sq. (and amata), SN.v.223 sq. (their culture brings assurance of no rebirth), SN.v.227 sq (paññā the chief one), SN.v.235,…

…Vāmadeva, Vessāmitta, Yamataggi (Yamadaggi) Angirasa, Bhāradvāja, Vāseṭṭha, Kassapa, Bhagu.

• -nisabha the first…

…Thag-a.212; Pv-a.63 (˚bhāva, state of being old)- a˚; not fading (cp. amata & ajarāmara), of Nibbāna SN.iv.369.

From intensive of jarati

(& jāmāta Ja.iv.219) daughter’s husband, son-inlaw Thig.422 (= Thag-a.269 duhitu pati); Ja.ii.63; Ja.v.442.

Vedic jāmātar. Deriv. uncertain. BR. take it as jā + mātar, the builder up of the fami …

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

(-˚) in abl. function (of kamyā f. for kamyāya or kamya adj.?) in the desire for: SN.i.143 = Ja.iii.361 (explained by kāmatāya); Snp.854, Snp.929. Kamyata (-) & kammata

1. (f.) pity compassion. Karuṇā is one of the 4 qualities of character significant of a human being who has attained enfranchisement of heart (ceto-vimutti) in the 4 sentiments viz. mettā k.˚ upekhā …

Kattu˚

1. base of inf. kattuṃ (of karoti), in compd^s -kamyatā willingness to do something Vb.208; Vism.320, Vism.385; Dhp-a.iii.289; -kāma desirous to do Vin.ii.2 …

(= khādiyati, Pass. of khādati; Dhtm.93 bhakkhaṇa)

1. to be eaten, chewed, eaten up, as by animals upacikāhi Vin.ii.113; suṇakhehi Pv.iii.7#8; puḷavehi Ja.iii.177; cp. Pv.iv.5#2 (cut in two)
2. to be …

…Dhp.402; khayaṃ virāgaṃ amataṃ paṇītaṃ Snp.225-In exegesis of rūpassa aniccatā: rūpassa khayo vayo bhedo Dhs.645 = Dhs.738 = Dhs.872…

…MN.i.227 (vivaṭaṃ amatadvāraṃ khemaṃ nibbānapattiyā “opened is the door to the Immortal, leading to peace, for the attainment of…

…khura-sipāṭikā, namataka Vin.i.249; Vin.ii.134 cp. Vin. Texts iii.138;

• -silā a whetstone Vin.ii.134 *…

…koṭi ibid
■ anamatagg âyaṃ saṃsāro, pubba˚ na paññāyati S’s end and beginning are unthinkable, its starting-point is not…

desire, longing, with noun: viveka˚… to be alone Pv-a.43; anattha˚ Ja.iv.14 with inf. Pv-a.65 (gahetu˚); Ja.iii.362 (vināsetu˚) Mhvs.5, Mhvs.260; Dhp-a.i.91.

abstr. fr. kāma

and Kātu˚; (in compound with kāma) inf. of karoti.

• -kāma desirous of doing or making, etc. Mhvs.37#34 (a˚) Pv-a.115;
• -kāmatā the desire to do, etc. Ja.i …

…pāraṃ vuccati amataṃ nibbānaṃ Cnd.487); Thig.10 (= maccu ettha dhīyati Thag-a.13); Dhp.86; Dhp-a.ii.161….

…Snp.440; Ja.v.480. Neg. amata see separate article
■ Note. mata at Pv-a.110 is to be corrected into cuta.

*…

to love, to be fat: “mejjati mettā siniyhatī ti attho” love, amity, sympathy, friendliness, active interest in others. There are var. def^ns & explains of mettā: the stereotype “*metti mettā …

soft-heartedness, kindliness sympathy. Often in triad mettā (“active love” Snp-a.128), karuṇā (“preventive love,” ibid.), muditā (“disinter …

…(cp. BSk mūlaṃ kramataś ca id. Divy.491). 6. “substance, foundation, i.e. worth, money, capital, price, remuneration Mil.334…

piece of cloth Vin.ii.115 (satthaka), Vin.ii.123, Vin.ii.267 (˚ṃ dhāreti).

word & etym. doubtful; cp. nantaka & Bdhgh. Vin.ii.317: matakan (sic) ti satthakavedhanakaṃ (= veṭhanakaṃ) pilotikakhaṇḍaṃ

…rags).

a contamination of namataka (Kern,

Toevoegselen

p. 169), maybe Sk. naktaka “cover for nakedness (Trenckner, Notes 81¹),…

…gantvā na socare Vv.51#4; amataṃ AN.ii.247; MN.iii.224 (Bhagavā atthassa ninnetā a ˚assa dātā); Mil.319; Vv.64#27 (apāpuranto a ˚assa…

…(cp. dhuva, sassata amata, vipariṇāma)
■ See further for ref. SN.ii.244 sq (saḷāyatanaṃ a.), SN.ii.248 (dhātuyo); SN.iii.102…

sleep AN.ii.48, AN.ii.50; AN.iii.251; Snp.926 (opp. jāgariyā), Snp.942 (see explⁿ at Mnd.423); Ja.i.61, Ja.i.192; Ja.ii.128
■ niddaṃ okkamati to fall asleep Vin.i.15 …

Niyāmaka¹

adjective sure of or in, founded in, or leading to, completed in DN.i.190 (dhamma-n. paṭipadā, cp. niyamatā).

either to niyama or niyāma

Niyāmaka²

(see niyyāmaka …

state of being settled, certainty, reliance surety, being fixed in (-˚) SN.ii.25 (dhamma˚ + dhammaṭṭhitatā); AN.i.286 (id.), Ja.i.113 (saddhammassa n assurance of…); Kv.586 (accanta˚ final assurance …

…Dhp.21, Dhp.93, Dhp.114 (amataṃ), Dhp.254, Dhp.368 (santaṃ = nibbānass’ etaṃ nāmaṃ, santakoṭṭhāsaṃ Dhp-a.iv.108); Pv.iv.3#48…

…Snp.68 (= vuccati Amataṃ Nibbānaṃ etc Cnd.409), Snp.219 (˚dassin); Cnd.26; Mil.19, Mil.31; -dīpanī Exposition of the Highest…

the highest quantity, measure on the outside minimum or maximum DN.i.60 (ghāsa-cchādana-paramatāya santuṭṭho contented with a minimum of food & clothing; DN-a.i.169 explains by uttamatāya); MN.i.10 …

…in foll. phrases prevalent: Amata˚ SN.v.217 sq.; tama˚ Pp.51; Nibbāna SN.iv.373; SN.v.218; brahmacariya˚ SN.i.234; Maccu˚ SN.v.217; sambodhi˚…

…in foll. phrases prevalent: Amata˚ SN.v.217 sq.; tama˚ Pp.51; Nibbāna SN.iv.373; SN.v.218; brahmacariya˚ SN.i.234; Maccu˚ SN.v.217; sambodhi˚…

…compar formation is paṭhamatara, only as adv. ˚ṃ at the (very) first, as early as possible, first of all Vin.i.30; Ja.vi.510; Dhp-a.i.138;…

…calm attained to in emancipation, viz. vūpasama paṭinissagga p. amata nibbāna, e.g. Cnd.429.

fr. paṭippassaddha

dead, departed, the departed spirit. The Buddhistic peta represents the Vedic pitaraḥ (manes, cp. pitṛyajña), as well as the Brāhmaṇic preta. The first are souls of the “fathers, …

…(appamāda˚); SN.i.173 (Amata˚); Pv.i.11#10 (kaṭuka˚), Pv.ii.8#3 (dāna˚); Pv.iv.1#88 (mahap˚ & agga˚); Vism.345 (of food, being…

…vv.ll. pa˚ phu˚); Mil.338 (amataṃ, cp. phusati), Mil.340 (phassayeyya Pot.)
pass phassīyati Vin.ii.148 (kavāṭā na ph.; variant reading…

…Pv.iv.1#88; cp Pv-a.243; amataṃ padaṃ Pv.iv.3#48; amataṃ Mil.338 (but T. reads khippaṃ phasseti a.); in bad sense…

…(bhāsanto va paṭhamataraṁ bhāsati etc.)

• -yoga “former connection” i.e. connection with a former body or deed former action…

…only in phrase apāpurati Amatassa dvāraṃ to open the door of Nibbāna Vin.i.5; Vv.64#27 (= vivarati Vv-a.284).

fr. pa + ā + vṛ; cp….

…Snp.1059; Mnd.20 (= amataṃ nibbānaṃ); Dhp.385; Dhp-a.iv.141 aparā pāraṃ gacchati to go from this side to the other (used with…

…by Cnd.487 as amataṃ nibbānaṃ; Vv-a.42.

• -gata (cp. pāragata) gone to the other side, gone beyond,…

…Mil.43 Mil.229; Dhp-a.i.87 (amataṃ); Vv-a.75 (yāguṃ); Pv-a.63 aor. apāyesi SN.i.143; ger. pāyetvā Ja.i.202…

…(adj. ˚) tasting Vv.16#11 (Amatarasā f. = nibbānarasāvinī Vv-a.85).

• -agga finest quality (of taste), only in further…

…(etc.): idaṃ vuccati amataṃ SN.v.8; yo rāgakkhayo (etc.): idaṃ vuccati nibbānaṃ SN.iv.251; ye ’dha pajahanti kāmarāgaṃ…

equality, evenness, normal state Vin.i.183; AN.iii.375 sq.; Mil.351.

fr. sama³

ardour, zeal AN.iii.346.

saṃ + ātapa

contact, connection, association Vin.iii.120; AN.iii.293 sq. (˚ārāmatā); AN.iv.87 sq., AN.iv.331; Iti.70; Ja.i.376; Ja.iv.57; Mil.386; Cnd.137; Vb-a.340 (an-anulomika˚); Pv-a.5 (pāpamitta˚)
■ Two …

…(anta-virahita); anamatagga (to which add refs. Vb-a.45, Vb-a.182, Vb-a.259 Vb-a.260). 2. moving on,…

communication, association, society Vin.i.45; AN.iii.256; Ja.i.106.

• -ārāma delighting in society DN.ii.78; MN.iii.110 Vb-a.474.
• -ārāmatā delight in comp …

passage, bridge MN.i.439; Vin.iii.127; Ja.iii.373 (attānaṃ ˚ṃ katvā yo sotthiṃ samatārayi); Mil.91, Mil.229.

fr. saṃ + kram

…Pv.iii.7#10 (= laddhanāma amataṃ Pv-a.207); Mil.270; Dhs.583 (see translation ibid.), Dhs.1439. The discernment of higher jhāna- states…

…Cnd.270: tacchaṃ vuccati amataṃ Nibbānaṃ, etc
■ (nt.) taccha a truth Snp.327- ataccha false, unreal, unfounded; a…

…of frogs which perhaps (with Kern,

Toevoegselen

ii.88) is to be read as tāma-tamata-suppahita; “horribly greedy” (Kern gruwelijk…

highest amount, climax, limit DN-a.i.169 (for paramatā).

abstr. fr. uttama

…Tha-ap.38 (fig.), Ja.vi.52 (amata˚); Mil.416; Vism.37, Vism.234 (salila˚); Mhvs.1, Mhvs.24; Snp-a.34, Snp-a.224; Pv-a.139 (˚dhārā shower of…

female yakkha, a vampire. Their character is usually fierce & full of spite & vengeance, addicted to man- & beast-murder (cp. yakkha 2). They are very much like Petīs in habits. With their names cp. …

at SN.i.14 (sa vītivatto yamataṃ sumedho) we should read (with Mrs. Rh. D.’s emendation K.S. p. 320) as yaṃ mataṃ (Cy.: maññanaṃ;…

pleasure, satisfaction AN.ii.28; AN.iii.116; Vb.381; Mil.233.

abstr. fr. ārāma 1

the fact of standing or being founded on (-˚) SN.ii.25 = AN.i.286 (dhamma˚ + dhamma-niyāmatā).