tending to go downwards (to lower existences)

eradicated; annihilated

tending to go up, leading towards

Bhavanga-santāna: ‘continuity of subconsciousness’; see: santāna

Bhavanga-sota: and Bhavanga-citta: The first term may tentatively be rendered as the ‘undercurrent forming the condition of being, or existence’, and the second as ‘subconsciousness’, though …

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 …

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 …

Patisandhi: lit. ‘reunion, relinking’, i.e. rebirth, is one of the 14 functions of consciousness viññāna-kicca. It is a kamma-resultant type of consciousness and arises at the moment of concep …

…vows of the fast Ja.i.50; bhavaṅga the constituents or the condition of becoming (see bhava & cp.;…

1. (adj.) that which ought to be done, that which is to be performed; nt something to do Dhp-a.i.15. defined as kātabban ti kiccaṃ kiñcid eva karaṇīyan ti Kp-a.218; kattabaṃ karaṇīyaṃ Dhp-a.iii.452 …

to break up or off, to destroy, interrupt, to stop Snp.972 (pot. ˚chinde); Ja.iv.127; Mnd.502; Thag-a.267; Pv-a.31 (kulavaṃso upacchijji aor. pass.); Vism.164, Vism.676 (bhavangaṃ).

upa + chindati