1. a female divinity, a goddess; a queen among the gods.
2. a godlike woman.

AmbaṭṭhaAmbaṭṭhamāṇava

A brahmin youth of the Ambaṭṭha clan who lived with his teacher, Pokkharasādi, at Ukkaṭṭha. He was learned in the three Vedas and the correlated branches of knowledge, includin …

…chief queen was Kosaladevī, daughter of Mahākosala and sister of Pasenadi. On the day of her marriage she received, as part of her dowry, a…

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 …

…being Kokālika, Khaṇḍadevīputta and Samuddadatta Vin.ii.196 Vin.iii.171 Katamorakatissa was held in high esteem by Thullanandā, for we are…

Kaṇha¹

Son of Disā, a slave girl of Okkāka. He was called Kaṇha because he was black and, like a devil, spoke as soon as he was born. He was the ancestor of the Kaṇhāyanagotta. DN.i.93 Lat …

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 hell in which stage players are born after death. Tālapuṭa maintained that after death they were born among the Pahāsadevi. The Buddha contradicts this and says that their rebirth is in a Niraya and …

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

On the…

…city, the home of Devī, mother of Mahinda. He and Sanghamittā were born there, and, just before he left for Ceylon, he went there to…

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 …

not departed from, not deviating from

1. (mfn.) not transgressing.
2. (m.) non-deviation

excessive view(s); deviant view(s).

going beyond, deviation; transgression.

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

1. moves or falls from one’s place, goes away; falls away, deviates (from), abandons.
2. moves or falls from one state of existence (to another); dies (in one state); falls away; perishes, ceases.

concentration on the color white; a white meditational device

ummagga¹

masculine a deviating way, a different way; a wrong way.

ummagga²

masculine emergence on the surface; (emergence of) an idea, conception; initial thought

wailing, lamenting, deploring.

to intend, devise, have in mind Ja.iv.310 (manasā pāpaṃ).

abhi + ceteti

to bring to consciousness, think out, devise, plan SN.ii.82
pp abhisañcetayita (q.v.).

abhi + sañceteti or ˚cinteti

swerving, swaying, staggering, deviating; always used of an uncontrolled car (ratha or yāna) Dhp.222 (ratha = ativegena dhāvanta Dhp-a.iii.301); (yāna = adanta akārita aviṇīta Mnd.145) Dhs-a.260 (˚y …

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 …

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 …

1. (adj.) thought out, invented, devised SN.i.137 (dhammo asuddho samalehi c.); SN.iii.151 (caraṇaṃ nāma cittaṃ citten’ eva c.); Pv.ii.6#13 (mantaṃ brahma˚, expl. Pv-a.97 by kathitaṃ)
2. (nt.) a thou …

…Pv-a.4, Pv-a.74 etc.

devī (f.)

1. goddess, of Petīs, Yakkhiṇīs etc.; see etym expl. at Vv-a.18; Pv.ii.1#12; Vv.1#3…

to sport, to amuse oneself Vv-a.18 (in expl. of devī); to play at dice MN.ii.106 (akkhehi).

Sk. dīvyati, pp. dyūta see jūta

1. as pp. guarded, protected
   1. lit nagaraṃ guttaṃ a well-guarded city Dhp.315 = Thag.653 Thag.1005; Devinda˚ protected by the Lord of gods Vv.30#8-
   2. fig. (med.) guarded, watchful, constrain …

1. talking much, wailing Mil.148 (paridevita-l- mukha).
2. (nt.) much talk, excited talk, talking Ja.vi.498.

pp. of lālappati

1. a road (usually high road), way, foot-path Vism.708 (maggaṃ agata-pubba-purisa, simile of); Vb-a.256 (tiyojana˚, simile of a man travelling); Dhp-a.i.229- addhāna˚; high road Vin.iv.62; MN. …

death; usually personified as Np. Death, the Evil one, the Tempter (the Buddhist Devil or Principle of Destruction) Sometimes the term māra is applied to the whole of the worldly exi …

the stars or constellations, a conjunction of the moon with diff. constellations, a lunar mansion or the constellations of the lunar zodiac, figuring also as Names of months & determinant factors of h …

purgatory, hell, a place of punishment & torture, where sin is atoned (i.e. kamma ripens = paccati, is literally boiled) by terrible ordeals (kāraṇāni) similar to & partly identical with those of Hade …

lit. “taking away”, leading astray, side-track, deviating path Ja.vi.525 (C.: gamana-magga) Cp. avaharaṇa.

fr. oharati

adverb adjective

1. (adv. & prep.) beyond, on the further side of (with abl. or loc.), over Pv-a.168 (para Gangāya, variant reading ˚āyaṃ). See in same meaning & application paraṃ, paro and parā & c …

lamentation, wailing MN.i.200; SN.ii.1; SN.iii.3 sq. AN.i.144; AN.ii.195; Snp.328, Snp.592, Snp.811, Snp.923, Snp.969; Ja.i.146; Ja.vi.188, Ja.vi.498; Mnd.128, Mnd.134, Mnd.370, Mnd.492; Pts.i.11 sq., …

to wail, lament DN.ii.158 (mā socittha mā paridevittha); Snp.582, Snp.774 = Mnd.38 (as ˚devayati), Mnd.166; Ja.vi.188, Ja.vi.498; Pv-a.18 (socati +); ger ˚devamāna SN.i.199, SN.i.208; Ja.v.106; Pv- …

lamentation, wailing Snp.590; Pv.i.12#3 (= ruditaṃ Pv-a.63); Mil.148 (kanditap.˚-lālappita-mukha).

pp. of paridevati

lamentation etc.; only exegetical construction in explⁿ of parideva at DN.ii.306 = Cnd.416.

abstr. fr. paridevita

…Ja.i.50 (˚sīsaka, of Māyādevī’s couch), Ja.i.212 (˚lokadhātu) Mil.6; DN-a.i.311 (˚mukha facing east); Dhp-a.iii.155 (id.); Vv-a.190;…

crying, weeping Pv-a.18 (+ assu-mocana, in explⁿ of ruṇṇa), Pv-a.63 (= paridevita).

pp. of rudati, equivalent to ruṇṇa

adjective together with his queen Mhvs.33, Mhvs.70.

sa³ + devī + ka

(& -ceteti) to think, find out, plan, devise means DN.ii.180, DN.ii.245 (aor. samacintesuṃ); Thag.1103 (Pot. ˚cintaye); Ja.iii.438 (aor. samacetayi).

saṃ + cinteti

adverb across, obliquely; in -bhūta deviating, going wrong, swerving from the right direction DN-a.i.89 (see under tiracchāna-kathā).

Vedic tiryañc, obliquely, from **te …

1. an underground watercourse, a conduit, main MN.i.171; AN.ii.189; Ja.vi.426, Ja.vi.432; Snp-a.50 (“ummaggo paññā pavuccati”) Dhp-a.i.252 (˚cora); Dhp-a.ii.37 (v l. umanga); Dhp-a.iv.104; Pv-a.4 …

turning aside, deviation fr. (abl.) MN.i.14; AN.i.243.

fr. vokkamati

to turn aside, deviate from (abl.); mostly in ger. vokkamma Vin.ii.213; DN.i.230; MN.iii.117; SN.iv.117; Snp.946; Ja.i.23; Vism.18
pp vokkanta.

vi + ukkamati

deviated from (abl.) Iti.36.

pp. of vokkamati

adverb as, like, in relation to, after (the manner of)
■ As prep. (with acc.): according (to some condition, norm or rule): yathā kāmaṃ (already Vedic) according to his desire …

lit. “yoking, or being yoked,” i.e. connection bond, means; fig. application, endeavour, device

1. yoke, yoking (rare?) Ja.vi.206 (meant here the yoke of the churning-sticks; cp. Ja.vi.209).
2. conn …

“fitting,” i.e.

1. application, use Mil.3 (opamma˚).
2. fitness vāda˚, Kv-a.37; in instr. yuttiyā in accordance with Mhvs.10, Mhvs.66 (vacana˚); Sdhp.340 (sutti˚); and abl *[yuttito](/define/yutti …

Ādeva, Ādevanā

lamenting, deploring, crying etc. in ster. phrase (explaining parideva or pariddava) ādevo paridevo ādevanā pari˚ ādevitattaṃ pari˚ Mnd.370 = Cnd.416 = Pts.i.38.

ā + div. devati

Ādeva, Ādevanā

lamenting, deploring, crying etc. in ster. phrase (explaining parideva or pariddava) ādevo paridevo ādevanā pari˚ ādevitattaṃ pari˚ Mnd.370 = Cnd.416 = Pts.i.38.

ā + div. devati

Āpa & Āpo

neuter water; philosophically t. t. for cohesion, representative of one of the 4 great elements (cp. mahābhūta), viz. paṭhavī, āpo, tejo vāyo: see Cpd. 268 & Dhs trsl. 201, also below …

Āpa & Āpo

neuter water; philosophically t. t. for cohesion, representative of one of the 4 great elements (cp. mahābhūta), viz. paṭhavī, āpo, tejo vāyo: see Cpd. 268 & Dhs trsl. 201, also below …