, ~ā, feminine

1. (m.n.f.) the pole, the shaft of a wagon or carriage; a yoke.
2. a burden, a charge, a responsibility; a duty, obligation.

…nikkhepa)

• -ssaha enduring one’s yoke Thag.659 cp. dhuratā

Sk. dhur f. & dhura m.

…is recorded in the Madhura Sutta. MN.ii.83–90

It is said that after the interview Avantiputta became a follower of the Buddha’s…

A monk whose Theragāthā verse speaks of not wanting to drink poison after tasting the Dhamma. Thag.103

…monks, chief of whom were Vidhura and Sañjīva; when that effort failed owing to the thoughts of goodwill, pity, sympathy and equanimity,…

GundāvanaKundāvanaGuṇḍāvanaKuṇḍāvana

A forest in Madhurā. Mahā Kaccāna stayed there and was visited by Avantiputta, king of Madhurā, to whom he preached the Madhurā Sutta, MN.ii.83f. and by the bra …

…His chief disciples were Vidhura and Sañjīva among monks, and Sama and Campā among nuns. His personal attendant was Buddhija. Accuta and…

KandarāyanaKundarāyana

A brahmin. He visited Mahā Kaccāna at the Gundavana near Madhurā and accused him of not paying due respect to elderly brahmins, but when Mahā Kaccāna preached to him he express …

…stayed there. In fact, the Madhura Sutta states that he viewed the city with distinct disfavour. But Mahā Kaccāna evidently liked it, for he…

MahākaccāyanaKaccāyanaMahākaccānaKaccāna

One of the most eminent disciples of the Buddha, considered chief among expounders in full of the brief saying of the Buddha. AN.i.23 Several suttas illustrat …

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 …

One of the two chief disciples of Kakusandha Buddha. DN.ii.4 SN.ii.191 He received his name because he was a peerless preacher of the Dhamma. MN.i.333

(one) who is to be harnessed to the wagon-pole or yoke; a draft animal; or (according to commentaries) the two pairs of draft animals.

proper alignment, evenness of the yoke.

bearing the pole or yoke.

carrying one’s burden, undertaking responsibility.

carrying one’s burden, undertaking responsibility.

irresponsibility, indifference to oblihations Ja.iv.241.

a + dhura, see dhura 2

…Dhp-a.iv.110); Mil.258 (˚dhura savanûpaga), Mil.319 (agado amataṃ & nibbānaṃ amataṃ), Mil.336 (amatena lokaṃ abhisiñci Bhagavā),…

…tittaka, kaṭuka kasāya, madhura (see under rasa): thus at Mil.56. Another enumeration at Cnd.540 & Dhs.629
■ Ja.i.242…

…atula). Esp. freq. in cpd -dhura lit. carrying more than an equal burden, of incomparable strength, very steadfast or resolute Snp.694 (=…

…ojavantaṃ sabhāva-madhuraṃ Thag-a.168); SN.v.321; AN.iii.237 sq. Mil.405.

a + secana + ka, fr. sic to sprinkle, cp. B.Sk….

…the ploughman); Dhp-a.i.24 (dhuraṃ vahanto balivaddassa, variant reading balibaddassa); Vv-a.258 (vv.ll. ˚baddha & ˚bandha). The spelling;…

…(= bhatta-vetana); dhura˚ a meal to which a bhikkhu is invited as leader of others, i.e. a responsible meal Ja.i.449; Ja.iii.97 (variant…

…Vism.493 (of indriya); -madhura (nt.) sweetness (syrup) of 4 (ingredients) DN-a.i.136; Thag-a.68;…

Citta¹ & Citra

adjective variegated, manifold, beautiful; tasty, sweet, spiced (of cakes), Ja.iv.30 (geṇḍuka); Dhp.171 (rājaratha); Vv.47#9; Pv.ii.11#2 (aneka˚); Pv.iv.3#13 (pūvā = madhurā …

…Ja.vi.528.

Sk. dhava = madhuratvaca, Halāyudha

Dhava²

a husband Thag-a.121 (dh. vuccati sāmiko tad abhāvā vidhavā matapatikā…

…enduring; patient Dhp.208 (= dhuravahana-sīlatāya dh. Dhp-a.iii.272);

• -sīlin ˚sīla Ja.ii.97 (=…

(-˚) “to be yoked,” accustomed to the yoke, carrying a burden, in kamma˚ Mil.288.

Sk. dhaureya, der. fr. dhura

…“a state of unflinching endurance” Cnd.394, Cnd.405 = Dhs.13 etc. = Vb.350, Vb.370 (+ dhura-sampaggāha); opp nikkhitta-dh….

…SN.i.214 = Snp.187 (: cetasikaviriya-vasena anikkhittadhura Snp-a.236).

cp. Sk. dhuradhara

…(where the variant reading dhura˚ seems to be preferable instead of dhuva˚, see dhurabhatta) cp. niccabhatta;

• -yāgu…

…Ja.v.96 (expl. by haṃsamadhurassara).

Gaggarā as Name of a lake at Vism.208 See note on gala.

Vedic gargara throat, whirlpool. *gṷer to…

…2).

• -dhura the burden of the books, i.e. of studying the Scriptures, explained as one who knows by heart one, two or all…

adjective hard-studying Dhp-a.i.156 (bhikkhu; cp. gantha-dhura).

fr. gantha 2

Iti (ti)

indeclinable emphatic deictic particle “thus”. Occurs in both forms iti & ti, the former in higher style (poetry), the latter more familiar in conversational prose. The function of “iti” is …

…Mil.21; DN-a.i.263 (= madhura-vacana);
■ a˚ not pronouncing or reciting clearly DN.i.94. DN.i.122;

• -tā the fact of being of…

…Ja.v.24 (= kammam eva); -dhura (m. nt. draught-work Ja.i.196; -dheyya work to be performed duty AN.iv.285…

…ṭhita˚ DN-a.i.73; madhura˚ Ja.iii.342; Ja.vi.255.

• -ābhiññāṇa recollection due to speech Mil.78, Mil.79
• -ojja (k˚-udya,…

…ghora (of niraya); often combined with khara opp. madhura, e.g. Pv-a.119

to desire.

1. Objective: pleasantness, pleasure-giving, an object of sensual enjoyment.
2. Subjective: (a) enjoyment, pleasure on occasion of sense, (b) sense-desire.

Buddhist commentators exp …

…DN.iii.238 = AN.iii.249; madhurakajāto viya kāyo SN.iii.106; AN.iii.69.

III. (Ethical)

Kāya is one of the three channels by which a…

…(˚ka), Ja.v.155 (addha-lābu-samā thanā); Dhp-a.ii.59 (˚ka); Snp-a.227 (lābumhi catumadhuraṃ pūretukāmo).

*…

…C. explains rightly by “madhura-phalesu pakkhitta-madhu viya, madhura-phalo hutvā.”

• -atthika (madhu˚) desirous of…

adjective

1. sweet Snp.50; Ja.iii.493; Ja.v.324; Pv.ii.67; Pv-a.119, Pv-a.147.
2. of intoxicating sweetness, liquor-like, intoxicating Ja.iv.117.
3. (nt.) sweetness, sweet drink Dhp.363; Ja.i.271 …

…intoxicated, in phrase madhuraka-jātokāyo viya “like an intoxicated body, i.e. without control, weak. The usual translation has been…

sweetness Mhvs.2, Mhvs.13.

abstr. fr. madhura

sweetness Ja.i.68.

abstr. fr. madhura

Neḷa & Nela

(adj.)

1. without fault or sin blameless, faultless; not hurting, humane, gentle merciful, innocuous DN.i.4 (Bdhgh explains: elaṃ vuccati doso; n’ assā (i.e. vācāya) elan ti nelā; niddos …

Neḷa & Nela

(adj.)

1. without fault or sin blameless, faultless; not hurting, humane, gentle merciful, innocuous DN.i.4 (Bdhgh explains: elaṃ vuccati doso; n’ assā (i.e. vācāya) elan ti nelā; niddos …

…out DN.i.53 (anattamanavācam a˚ not utter a word of discontent); Ja.iii.127 Ja.v.416 (madhurassaraṃ); Pp.33; Mil.259 (garahaṃ) Dāvs i.28…

see nīdhura.

…Dhs.621; Vv-a.140 (madhura˚); Vv-a.334 (in quotation appa-sadda, appa˚); Sdhp.245. 2. (adj. noiseless, quiet, still Snp.959 (= appasadda…

…put down
■Ja.iii.243 dhura˚ giving up one’s office or charge
■Ja.i.236 sarīra ˚ṁ kāresi had the body laid out;…

…SN.i.141 etc.; nikkhitta- dhura unyoked freed of the yoke AN.i.71; AN.iii.108; cp. Dhs-a.145; - su˚; well set, well…

? bracelet, bangle Ja.vi.64, (= valaya; variant reading BB nivara). Also given as nīyura (cp Prk. neura & P. nūpura).

Sk.? Cp. keyura

an ornament for the feet, an anklet Thig.268; DN-a.i.50.

Sk. nūpura; Non-Aryan. Cp. Prk. ṇeura & nīdhura (nīyura)

…Mil.21.

• -dhura (= ganthadhura): see vāsadhura.
• -paṭibhānavant possessed of intelligence…

…Toevoegselen

s. v. for T. maddhu-vipphala C. reads madhuvipphala & explains by madhuraphala).

cp. Epic Sk. pippala, on ph for p see…

…for a man Snp.256 (porisa dhura), cp. porisiya & poroseyya. 2. (m.) = purisa esp. in sense of purisa 2, i.e. servant, used collectively (abstract…

…Ja.i.110; Snp-a.149 (˚dhura); Pv-a.1, Pv-a.26. In sequence p. majjhima pacchima; past, present, future (or first, second last) DN.i.239…

…kaṭuka, kasāya, madhura.

1. juice [as applied in the Veda to the Soma juice], e.g. in the foll. combinations: ucchu˚; of sugar cane,…

…burden, equal Ja.i.191; asamadhura incomparable Snp.694 sq.; Ja.i.193 But sama-dhura-ggahaṇa “complete imperiousness Vb-a.492 (see…

…Pv-a.275; Vv.78#5; dhura-sopāna the highest step of a staircase (? Ja.i.330.

• -kaliṅgara flight of steps…

mother’s milk Vin.ii.255 = Vin.ii.289 (˚ṃ pāyeti); AN.iv.276; Ja.iii.165; Ja.vi.3 (madhura˚) Thig.496.

see thana

Iti (ti)

indeclinable emphatic deictic particle “thus”. Occurs in both forms iti & ti, the former in higher style (poetry), the latter more familiar in conversational prose. The function of “iti” is …

…so much Ja.i.207; t. madhuraphala with such sweet fruit Ja.ii.105; asītiyā tāva kimi-kulānaṃ sādhāraṇa (of the body) or rather,…

…vaggu: abhirūpa, cāru, madhura, rucira savanīya, siniddha, sundara, sobhaṇa.

• -vada of lovely speech or enunciation…

adj. nt.

1. carrying Vv-a.316; Dhp-a.iii.472 (dhura˚).
2. a current Ja.iv.260.

fr. vah

adjective (-˚) carrying, bearing Ja.ii.97 (dhura˚).

vahana + ka

…widow, vidhu lonely, vidhura separaṭed, Av. vidavā = Goth. widuwō = Ohg. wituwa (Ger. Witwe = E. widow); Gr. ἠίχεος unmarried; Lat…

…Snp-a.583); AN.i.116 (here in meaning “clever,” perhaps = vidura; spelt vidhūra) Cp. Np. Vidhura Kp-a.128; Snp-a.201 (as Vidhūra at…

adjective wise, clever Ja.v.399 (= paṇḍita C.). Cp. vidhura 2.

fr. vid, cp. Sk. vidura

…where 10 such modes.

• -dhura obligation of introspection Dhp-a.i.8; Dhp-a.iv.37 sq.

fr. vi + passati; BSk. vipaśyanā,…

…(contrasted to pariyatta-dhura), Snp-a.306 (ganthadhura).

vas to dwell, see…

…Snp-a.137. As dhura-yotta at Ja.i.192; Ja.vi.253.

Vedic yoktra, cp. Lat. junctor, Gr. ζευκτ ̈ηρες yoke-straps; Epic Sk….

…explained by sama-dhura-ggahaṇaṃ “taking the leadership altogether” at Vb-a.492. See further Mnd.177; Vv-a.71…