One of the hells. It is next to the Mahā Niraya, and is the habitation of needle-mouthed creatures who rip away the skin, flesh, tendons, etc., of the victim and then devour his marrow. MN.iii.185

5hell

feces; dung; excrement.

…Pp.29 (Kern,

Toevoegselen

s. v. corrects into kūṭa˚?).

Sk. gūtha; probably to Lat. bubino, see Walde, Lat. Wtb. s. v.

…Snp.p.126

The Devadūta Sutta MN.iii.185 of the Majjhima Nikāya contains another list: Gūtha, Kukkuḷa, Simbalivana, Asipattavana and…

an excretion from the eye

one who feeds on excrement.

bag of dung.

1. (mfn.) fallen into dung; covered in dung; smeared in excrement.
2. (n.) excrement; dung.

cesspit.

the excrement hell.

(~ī) eating excrement; one who feeds on dung.

(~ī) eating excrement; one who feeds on dung.

earwax; cerumen of the ear

…the eye Pv-a.198.

• -gūthaka id. Snp.197 (= dvīhi akkhicchiddehi apanīta-ttaca-maṃsasadiso a˚-gūthako…

…of sandal wood Ja.iii.190; gūtha of˚ faeces Pv.ii.3#15 (= karīsavāyinī Pv-a). 2. dealing with scents a perfumer Pv-a.127 (= māgadha; cp….

…(cp. Bdhgh. gaṇḍuppādagūtha-mattikā clay mixed with excrement of earthworms Vin. Texts iii.172).

• -uppāda (lit….

“a sort of gūtha,” excretion, secretion, rheum, in akkhi˚; and kaṇṇa˚; (of eye & ear) Snp.197 (cp. Snp-a.248; Vism.345 sq.). Gulha &…

…a cesspool Ja.iii.263 (= gūthakūpa);

• -vāyin, f. ˚inī diffusing an odour of excrement Pv-a.87.

cp. Sk. karīṣa,…

…Vin.iv.281 (of robes).

• -gūthaka the cerumen, wax, of the ear, Vin.ii.134; Snp.197; Ja.i.146.
• -cālana shaking the…

…MN.i.453 = AN.iv.138 gūtha˚; Vin.iv.265; tumba˚; (a gourd used as receptacle for food) vin.ii.114; alābu˚; Dhs-a.405
■…

…(of Yakkhas) Ja.i.133, Ja.i.266; camma˚ Ja.i.176; gūtha˚ (of a Peta) Pv-a.266.

…MN.i.245; Dhs-a.306 gūtha˚; a cesspool DN.ii.324; Snp.279; Pv.ii.3#16; Pp.36 miḷha˚; a pit for evacuations Pgdp.23, Pgdp.24;…

…muttaṃ vuccati); Pv.i.9#1 (gūthañ ca m.); Pv-a.43, Pv-a.78 enumerated under the 32 constituents of the body (the dvattiṃs-ākāraṃ) at Kp…

…Vv.52#11 (with ref. to the gūthaniraya); Pv.iii.4#5 (= gūtha Pv-a.194); Dhp-a.ii.53 (˚ṃ khādituṃ).

• -kūpa pit of…

(better variant reading nigāḷhita) sunk down into, immersed in Thag.568 (gūthakūpe).

Sk. nigāḍhita; ni + gāḍhita, see gāḷha²

…(-˚) (c. loc. Vin.iii.106 (gūthakūpe sasīsakaṃ n.); DN.i.75; Ja.i.4 Ja.iii.393 (gūthakalale), Ja.iii.415; Mnd.26; Pp.71; Mil.262 Sdhp.573….

…by “kaṃsalak’ ādi gūthapāṇakā,” which would mean “a low insect breeding in excrements (thus perhaps = paṭanga?). The trsl….

…kodhagaru˚ AN.ii.46; gūtha˚, puppha˚ madhubhāṇī˚ AN.i.128; dakkhiṇeyya˚ Vv-a.5; diṭṭhisampanna AN.i.26 sq.; AN.iii.439 sq.;…

…AN.iv.72; Ja.ii.327; gūtha˚ Ja.ii.211; tiṇa˚ AN.iii.408; palāla˚ DN.i.71; MN.iii.3; AN.i.241; AN.ii.210 maṃsa˚ DN.i.52;…

…Thig.395 (= akkhigūthaka Thag-a.259, q.v. for fuller explⁿ; see also J.P.T.S. 1884, 88).

reading not quite sure, cp….

…BSk….

…worm; ˚ā pāṇā (in the Gūthaniraya purgatory) MN.iii.185.

• -loma needle-haired, having hair like needles SN.ii.257; name…

…Vin.ii.134 (kaṇṇagūthakehi kaṇṇā thakitā honti: the ears were closed up), Vin.ii.148 (kavaṭā na thakīyanti, pass.),…

…against snake-bite, viz., gūtha, mutta, chārikā, mattikā Vin.i.206
■ Cp. vekaṭika.

*…

breaking off, falling off (?) or forming into bits(?) Dhp-a.ii.55 (˚gūtha).

reading not sure, to ālumpati or ālopa