1. rinsing, washing; washing off.
2. water for washing.
3. (according to commentaries) a certain ritual (and festival), involving washing of bones.

(an instrument) for washing.

washing Vin.iv.262; SN.iv.316 (bhaṇḍa˚); AN.i.132, AN.i.161, AN.i.277; Iti.111 (pādānaṃ); Ja.ii.129; Ja.vi.365 (hattha˚); Mil.11 Vism.343; Pv-a.241 (hattha-pāda˚); Dhp-a.ii.19 (pāda˚) fig. (ariyaṃ) …

name of an acrobatic feat.

the water used for washing a pot.

adjective noun

1. purified MN.i.386; Snp.351, Snp.786, Snp.813, Snp.834 (= dhutakilesa Snp-a.542); Ja.iii.160 (˚sākha = patthaṭasākha Com.; variant reading BB vena˚); Mnd.77 = Mnd.176 (: dhonā vucca …

…the dead DN.i.6; aṭṭhi-dhovana Bdhgh at DN-a.i.84; AN.v.216 (see Commentary at 364). 2. Surgical washing of a wound Ja.ii.117. 3. In…

…mouth opening Pv-a.180. -dhovana-ṭṭhāna place for rinsing the mouth, “lavatory” Dhp-a.ii.184 -puñchana…

…Dhp-a.ii.37.

of niddhamati or = *nirdhāvana = ˚dhovana to dhāvati²

…Vv-a.63 Kp-a.45.

• -dhovana “bowl-washing,” (the water used for) washing the bowl Vin.ii.214. *…

…DN.iii.148; Pv-a.74.

• -dhovana cleaning or washing one’s feet Dhp-a.ii.9.
• -pa “drinking with the foot,” N. for…

…So probably for saṇadhovika at MN.i.229, MN.i.375. Cp. sāṇadhovana (?).

fr. sandhovati

…the obscure term sāṇa-dhovana-kīḷā to denote a trick of Caṇḍālas. But see sandhovika.

Vedic śaṇa; Gr….

kind of play DN-a.i.84 = saṇadhovikā.

…in -dhovana washing of the dish AN.i.161 (+ sarāva-dhovana); -pāka an offering of barley or rice…

water Vin.ii.120, Vin.ii.213; DN.ii.15 (˚assa dhārā gushes or showers of w.); Dhp.80 Dhp.145; Ja.i.212; Pv.i.5#7; Pp.31, Pp.32; Mil.318; Vv-a.20 (udake temanaṃ aggimhe tāpanaṃ); Dhp-a.i.289; Dhp-a. …

carrying away, washing away Snp.391 (sanghāṭi-raj-ûpa˚ = paṃsu-malādino sanghāṭirajassa dhovanaṃ Snp-a.375).

upa + vāhana