slow; silly; stupid; sluggish.

adjective slow slothful, indocile; silly, stupid MN.i.453; SN.iv.190; Dhp.116; Ja.i.116, Ja.i.143; Ja.ii.447; Ja.v.158; Ja.vi.192 (+ laḷāka) Thag.293; Mil.59, Mil.102, Mil.251; Dhp-a.i.94, Dhp-a.i. …

is slow; is sluggish; delays.

adverb slowly; sluggishly.

of slow understanding; characterized by slow intuition.

slow; hesitating.

slowness; hesitation; delaying.

Patipadā: 1. ‘Road’, ’ Path ’; for instance in dukkhanirodha - gāminī - patipadā ‘the road leading to the ceasing of suffering’ = 4th Noble Truth; majjhima - patipadā ‘the Middle Way’ …

, in a˚; absence of sluggishness Dhs.42, Dhs.43.

stupidity Dhp-a.i.250; as dandhattaṃ at DN.iii.106.

to be slow, to tarry Thag.293 (opp. tāreti)
pp dandhāyita see in der. ˚tta.

Denom. fr. dandha

clumsiness Mil.105.

stupidity (= dandhatā) DN.i.249 (opp. vitthāyitatta); SN.ii.54; Mil.105; DN-a.i.252.

der. fr. dandheti

…with popular analogy to datta¹, see also dandha & cp. dattu

adjective noun

1. (adj. unpleasant, painful, causing misery (opp. sukha pleasant Vin.i.34; Dhp.117. Lit. of vedanā (sensation) MN.i.59 (˚ṃ vedanaṃ vediyamāna, see also below iii.1 …

means of reaching a goal or destination, path, way, means, method, mode of progress (cp. Dhs. translation 53, 82, 92, 143), course, practice (cp. BSk. pratipad in meaning of pratipatti “line of cond …

…(as garu-pariṇāma & dandha-nirodha comp^d with arūpa). A similar sequence rūpa arūpa & nirodha; (i.e. nibbāna) in old…

…AN.iii.416 (of dukkha: dandha˚ & khippa˚ of slow & quick change; variant reading M6 is viparāgi, which may represent a vipariyāyi, i.e….