or neuter ‘area over which one moves’, region, sphere, range; field of perception.

in micchāpatha, dvedhāpatha as classified in Vb Ind. p. 441 should be grouped under patha as micchā˚ dvedhā˚.

sphere, range, focus, field (of consciousness or perception; cp. Dhs trsl. 199), appearance AN.ii.67; Ja.i.336 Vb.321; Mil.298; Vism.21, Vism.548; DN-a.i.228; Dhs-a.308 Dhs-a.333; Vv-a.232 (˚kāl …

A mountain in North India, on the Upper Ganges. There, for some time, lived the Thera Sambhūta Sānavāsi, and it was there that Yasa Kākandakaputta saw him. The meeting of arahants to discuss what meas …

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 brahmin ascetic who went from Sāvatthī to Dakkhiṇāpatha and lived on the banks of the Godhāvarī in a hermitage which lay half in the territory of Assaka and half in that of Alaka.

He received the r …

…is included in the Dakkhinapatha.

The Dakkhinapatha is famous in literature as the birthplace of strong bullocks DhSA.141; NidA.16; DhA.iii.248,…

A royal family of Nāgas, mentioned together with Virūpakkhas, Chabbyāputtas, and Kaṇhāgotamakas. For their own protection, monks are advised to fill their hearts with amity for these four classes of N …

GodhāvarīGodhāvari

A river in Dakkhiṇāpatha, of which it forms the southern boundary, rising in Brahmagiri near the village of Triyanvaka.

18.91278, 77.64451river

KambojaKambojjaKambujaKambujjaKambojaka

One of the sixteen Great Nations which, with Gandhāra, belonged, not to the Majjhimadesa but, evidently, to the Uttarāpatha. AN.i.213 AN.iv.252 AN.iv.256 AN.iv …

The books mention the sixteen Mahājanapadas or Great Nations, which existed in the time of the Buddha. AN.i.213 AN.iv.252 AN.iv.256 AN.iv.260 They are Kāsī, Kosala, Aṅga, Māgadha, Vajji, Mallā, Cetiya …

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

The northern division of Jambudīpa. Its boundaries are nowhere explicitly stated in Pāḷi literature. Perhaps Uttarāpatha was originally the name of a great trade-route, the northern high road which e …

A resident of Uttarāpatha. Vin.iii.6

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 …

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 …

mode of expression

path leading round, an encircling path; a path on a rampart

crossing of high-roads, a main crossroads.

crossing of high-roads, a main crossroads.

whose movement is destroyed, who is unable to move; a cripple.

crossing of high roads; a main crossroad.

the southern region, the Deccan.

(from dakkhiṇāpatha) belonging to the southern region; from the Deccan.

place where two roads meet, a fork in the road; a divided path.

movement, mode of behavior, deportment; esp. the four bodily attitudes (walking, standing, sitting, lying)

action, activity; way of acting; course of action

the path of the sun; the sky

come within range, perceivable; within the sphere of perception

sitting within the view (of men), in public.

sitting within the view (of men), in public.

Bodhi: from verbal root budhi to awaken, to understand: awakening, enlightenment, supreme knowledge. Through Bodhi one awakens from the slumber or stupor inflicted upon the mind by the defilemen …

Postures: the 4 bodily: iriyāpatha

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

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

adjective not fallen into the way of (the hunter), escaped him MN.i.174.

an + āpātha + gata

I. Crude meaning

1. a wheel (of a carriage) Dhp.1; Pv-a.65 (ratha˚); Mil.27.
2. a discus used as a missile weapon Ja.i.74; Pgdp.36; cp khura˚ a razor as an instr. of torture.
3. a disc, a …

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 …

base of numeral four

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

cut off, destroyed Vin.i.71 (acchinna-kesa with unshaven hair); MN.i.430; DN.ii.8 (˚papañca); Ja.i.255; Ja.ii.155; Ja.iv.138; Dhp.338; Pv.i.11#2 (variant reading for bhinna), Pv.i.11#6; Dhp-a.iv.48. …

…ambu˚ Snp.62; vihangapatha˚ Sdhp.241; sapadāna˚ MN.i.30; Snp.65; pariyanta˚ Snp.904. 2. fig. anudhamma˚ Snp.69; āgu˚ AN.ii.240;…

1. a double, i.e. a branching road; a cross-road Dhp-a.ii.192; Mil.17.
2. doubt Dhp.282; Dhs.1004, Dhs.1161 Vism.313

cp. dvidhā & dvi B I.5

numerical adverb in two parts, in two MN.i.114; Ja.i.253 (karoti), Ja.i.254 (chindati); Ja.i.298 (id.); Ja.iii.181; Ja.iv.101 (jāta disagreeing); Ja.vi.368 (bhindati). See also dvedhā & dveḷhaka.

• • …

…(= ghora), Pv-a.159 (sapatha a terrible oath ghora), Pv-a.181 (= kurūrin), Pv-a.221 (˚kāraṇa); Sdhp.5, Sdhp.78, Sdhp.286.

Ved….

…Pv.iv.1#8. Of an oath (sapatha Pv.i.6#8; Pv.ii.12#16
■ ghorassara of a terrible cry (Ep. of an ass) Mil.363, Mil.365.

Vedic ghora, orig….

an astrologer Mhvs.35, Mhvs.71.

late Sk. horā “hour” (in astrol. literature, fr. Gr. ω ̔́ρα: cp. Winternitz, Gesch. d. Ind. Lit. iii.569 sq.) + pāṭhaka, i.e. expert

movement, posture, deportment MN.i.81; Snp.1038 (= cariyā vatti vihāro Cnd.148); Iti.31; Vism.145 (+ vutti pālana yapana).

-patha way of deportment; mode of movement; good behavi …

(& kallāṇa)

1. (adj.) beautiful, charming; auspicious, helpful, morally good. Syn bhaddaka Pv-a.9, Pv-a.116) and kusala (SN.ii.118; Pv-a.9 Pv-a.122); opp. pāpa (SN.i.83; MN.i.43; Pv-a.101, Pv-a …

…a merchant, trader, in jalapatha˚; and thalapatha˚; by sea & by land Ja.i.121 3. a superintendent, overseer, manager Ja.ii.305 (executioner…

to cause to fit, to create, build, construct arrange, prepare, order.

I. lit

1. in special sense: to prepare, get done, i.e. harness: Ja.i.62; plait DN-a.i.274, an offering (yaññaṃ) Snp.1 …

(and kumagga) a wrong path (lit. and fig.) Mil.390 (+ kupatha); fig. (= micchāpatha) Dhs.381, Dhs.1003; Pp.22. Kummaggaṃ paṭipajjati to lose one’s way, to go astray. lit. Pv.iv.3#5 Pv-a.44 (varian …

…n. 6, where spelling Makkādeva; we also find Makhadeva at Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa xiv. i.1).

cp. *Sk. maghā

…fr. pabāḷha); cp. Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa iv.3, 3 16
pp pabāḷha¹ (q.v.).

pa + bṛh to pull, see…

Padaka¹

adjective one who knows the padas (words or lines), versed in the padapāṭha of the Veda (Ep. of an educated Brahmin) DN.i.88 = Snp.p.105 (where Avs.ii.19 in id. p. has padaśo = P. …

1. attention, care (esp -), in compounds like gabbha˚; care of the foetus Dhp-a.i.4; dāraka˚; care of the infant Ja.ii.20; kumāra˚; looking after the prince Ja.i.148, Ja.ii.48; Dhp-a.i.346; * …

…also byappatha
■ apatha where there is no way or road, wrong way Ja.ii.287; Thag-a.255; Vv-a.337.

*…

seat, chair, stool, bench.

4 kinds are given at Vin.iv.40 = Vin.iv.168, viz. masāraka bundikābaddha, kuḷirapādaka, āhaccapādaka (same categories as given under mañca)
■ Vin.i.47, Vin.i.180 Vin.ii …

Rasa¹

that which is connected with the sense of taste. The defⁿ given at Vism.447 is as follows “jivhā-paṭihanana-lakkhaṇo raso, jivhā-viññāṇassa visaya-bhāvo raso, tass’ ev …

an oath Vin.i.347; Ja.i.180, Ja.i.267; Ja.iii.138; Snp-a.418.

fr. śap

indeclinable comparing in comparison, as prep. w. acc. “compared with” MN.i.374; MN.iii.177 (Himavantaṃ pabbatarājānaṃ); SN.ii.133 (mahāpaṭhaviṃ), SN.ii.262; SN.v.457 (Sineru-pabbata-rājānaṃ) AN.iii …

…u. C.). 4. bringing up (for trial), charging MN.i.251 (vacanapatha, cp. upanīya). Upaniya (iyya, eyya)

pp. of upaneti

adjective

1. overflowing, heaped up, crowded; extensive, abundant, preponderant, excessive, full of (˚-) Vin.i.285 (cīvaraṃ u. overstocked; Vin.ii.270 (āmisaṃ too abundant); Vin.iii.286 Thig.444 (= …

(& vaca) neuter speech, words, saying; nom. & acc.; vaco Snp.54, Snp.356, Snp.988, Snp.994, Snp.1006 Snp.1057, Snp.1110, Snp.1147; Ja.i.188; Mnd.553 (= vacana byāpa …

…so read for vaṇṇapatha); shortened to vaṇṇu at Vv.84#11 (where MSS vaṇṇa).

cp. late Sk. varṇu, Name…

wrong way or course Vv.50#10 (= apatha Vv-a.212).

vi + patha

…under yañña (or yaññapatha) as “ye yaññaṃ (viz. cīvaraṃ etc.) esanti” those who wish for a gift, “ye yaññaṃ…

in ˚jjhāyin Cnd.342#2 is read āpādaka˚; at Mnd.226, and āpātaka˚ at Vism.26.

adjective belonging to the (perceptual) sphere of, visible, in -nisādin lying down visible DN.iii.44, DN.iii.47. Cp. āpathaka.

fr. āpātha

(& dahati) to burn (trs.) consume, torment MN.i.365; MN.ii.73 AN.v.110; Ja.ii.44 (aor. 3 sg. med. adaḍḍha = Sk. adagdha) Dhp.31, Dhp.71, Dhp.140; Mil.45, Mil.112 (cauterize). Pp. *[daḍḍha](/define/daḍ …

(ṭṭhāna) neuter

I. Connotation

As one of the 4 iriyāpathā (behaviours)

1. contrasted (a) as standing position with sitting or reclining (b) as rest with motion.
2. by itself without parti …