adjective (-˚) grasping, taking up, striving after, ādhāna˚ DN.iii.247; udaka˚ Ja.i.5; piya˚ Dhp.209; nimitta˚ anubyañjana˚ etc.

occupying oneself with details or minor characteristics.

holding to what is wrong.

deficient in one respect; lacking one attribute

apprehending, responding emotionally to, an object or appearance; grasping, occupying oneself with, external features or characteristics.

apprehending, responding emotionally to, an object or appearance; grasping, occupying oneself with, external features or characteristics.

grasping, sticking to what has been laid down; ? obstinate.

…Dhs-a.400.

• -gāhin taking up or occupying oneself with details, taken up with lesser or inferior marks DN.i.70…

…Dhs-a.400.

• -gāhin taking up or occupying oneself with details, taken up with lesser or inferior marks DN.i.70…

…cp. Thag.1217 padulla gāhin, explained as duṭṭhullagāhin Psalms of Brethren 399 n. 3); MN.i.435; MN.iii.159; Vism.313
■ (nt.)…

(-˚) = gahin, see *anta*˚.

…= gāhin SN.iv.297;

• -gāhin “taking signs,” enticed or led away by outward signs entranced with the general…

…vuddhi-yutta C.).

-ggāhin “right-handed,” i.e. cleverly taking up (what is taught), good at grasping or understanding AN.iii.79,…

in cpd. padulla-gāhin is perhaps misreading; trsl. “clutching at blown straws (of vain opinion), explained by C. as duṭṭhullagāhin; at id….

…disposition Vin.iv.12.

• -ggāhin grasping after pleasure Dhp.209, cp. Dhp-a.iii.275.
• -cakkhu a loving eye DN.iii.167. *…

…Often with padakkhiṇaggāhin (q.v.). See also subbaca & abstr. der.; sovacassa
■ vatthi [i.e. su + asti] hail…

…DN.i.16≈(takkī vīmaṃsī); MN.i.520; DN-a.i.106 (= takketvā vitakketvā diṭṭhi-gāhino etaṃ adhivacanaṃ), cp. pp. DN-a.i.114,…

…Pv.iv.7#8 Mil.295 (˚gāhin left-handed); Pv-a.178 (˚passa left side). As “northern” at Ja.v.416. vāmaṃ karoti to upset…

…Dhp-a.iii.346 -ggāhin trying to outdo somebody else, domineering imperious Vv-a.140. -cchidda the hole of a yoke Thig.500 (in…

…ādhāna-gāhin duppaṭinissaggin Vin.ii.89; MN.i.43, MN.i.96; AN.iii.335 (variant reading ādāna˚, C. explains by…