(~ā & ~ī)n. & neuter

1. (mfn.) fine, excellent; good; virtuous; beautiful.
2. (n.) what is good, excellent; virtuous action; excellent conduct; excellence; beauty.

…good conduct, virtuous Thag.1008; Iti.96.

Vedic kalyāṇa

jóbarát, kedvező hatású barát

providing excellent food

acting well; doing what is good

acting well; doing what is good

1. (m.) a good friend; a person of fine qualities who is a friend, esp. in helping one to progress spiritually by his/her example and advice.
2. (mfn.) cultivating the friendship of a good man or good …

the cultivating the friendship of a good person or good people; the consorting with people of fine qualities; the being influenced by (the example and advice of) good people

of good understanding; of excellent wisdom

(kalyāṇapīti(n))also finding joy in what is good

(kalyāṇapīti)also finding joy in what is good

having the companionship of a good man or good men; associating with people of fine qualities

influenced by a good man or good men; inclining towards, associating with, people of fine qualities

having good fortune; fortunate in fate

of excellent speech, having a fine speaking voice

of excellent birth

whose inclinations are good; intent on good

Friend: noble: kalyāna-mitta

Puthujjana: lit.: ‘one of the many folk’, ‘worldling’, ordinary man, is any layman or Bhikkhu who is still possessed of all the 10 mental chains samyojana binding to the round of rebirths, and t …

…proper); alam eva kātuṃ kalyāṇaṃ indeed one must do good = it is appropriate to do good Pv.ii.9#23 (= yuttaṃ Pv-a.122); alaṃ…

…AN.v.38, AN.v.132 199, 336 (kalyāṇamitte); Iti.82 (dhammaṃ), Iti.98 (pubbenivāsaṃ); Ja.i.167; Ja.ii.111; Dhp.364; Pv.i.5#9; Pp.60;…

adjective

1. (to attha¹) profitable, good, proper. In this meaning the MSS show a variance of spelling either atthika or aṭṭhika or *[aṭṭhita](/de …

…Sapientum) Ja.v.406.

• -kalyāṇa beauty of bones Dhp-a.i.387
• -camma bones and skin Ja.ii.339;…

…welfare; a good deed (= kalyāṇaṃ) Dhp.120 (= bhadra-kamma, viz. kāyasucarita etc. Dhp-a.iii.14); Pv-a.116 (= iṭṭhaṃ). Also as…

…Mnd.465 = Cnd.477#b, viz kalyāṇa[-ka-]puthujjana (a layman of good character and sekkha (one in training), for which…

…to look at; C. explains by kalyāṇa dassana).

fr. bhuñjati²

Bhuja³

adjective bending, crooked, in bhuja-laṭṭhi…

…Unspecified at Snp-a.70 (Kalyāṇavihāravāsi-bhāṇaka-dahara-bhikkhu; reading doubtful)
■ f. bhāṇikā Vin.iv.285 (Thullanandā…

…one of the 5 beauties (see kalyāṇa 2d) Dhp-a.i.387;

• -dos’-ābādha a skin disease, cutaneous irritation…

…paṇḍita… medhāvin kalyāṇapaṭibhāna SN.iv.375 samaṇa bahussuta c. uḷāra Vv.84#26
■ AN.iii.58; Ja.i.148; Mil.1, Mil.21;…

…kinds) AN.iii.108 (cīvare kalyāṇakāma); AN.v.100, AN.v.206; Vism.62; Iti.103; Pv-a.185
■ Sīse cīvaraṃ karoti to drape the outer…

…= Dhs-a.38; Dhp-a.i.22. kalyāṇa˚ virtuous AN.i.74, AN.i.108; AN.ii.81, AN.ii.91 AN.ii.224 sq.; Pv-a.13. Opp. pāpa˚ Vin.iii.90; cp. above…

…from an expression like kalyāṇa-bhattiko g. a man accustomed to good food Vin.ii.77 = Vin.iii.160
■ f….

…the province DN.i.193 (see kalyāṇa);

• -cārikā tramping the country Pv-a.14;
• -tthāvariya…

…= Dhs.1236 = Ne.86; Dhs-a.378; Ne.26. The reading in Nd ii.is akalyāṇatā, in Dhs akalyatā; follows akammaññatā.

adjective good, virtuous DN-a.i.226; Dhs-a.32.

fr. last

beauty, goodness, virtuousness Vism.4 (ādi); k˚ -kusala clever, experienced in what is good Ne.20.

abstr. fr. kalyāṇa

…= MN.ii.40; SN.ii.234; Ja.i.394; Ja.v.154.

fr. kalyāṇa

…and teacher, who must be a kalyāṇamitta (q.v.), one who has entered the Path; Vism.89 Bdhd 89, 91, cp. Vism.241

• -ṭṭhānika a person…

…energetic Sdhp.127 -kalyāṇa in passage kata-kalyāno kata-kusalo katabhīruttāṇo akata-pāpo akata-luddho…

…tresses Pv-a.46; -kalyāṇa beauty of hair Dhp-a.i.387
■ kārika hairdresser Vv.17#5…

…etc. AN.ii.174 and ≈(see kalyāṇa and kata ii.1 a); MN.i.39; Pv.iv.7#7; Pv-a.59.

• -kāraka¹ = next…

…reputation of a man (of a kalyāṇamitta) at Pp.37; the opposite is pāpako kittisaddo, bad reputation: AN.i.126 AN.iii.269; Pp.36; *…

…reputation of a man (of a kalyāṇamitta) at Pp.37; the opposite is pāpako kittisaddo, bad reputation: AN.i.126 AN.iii.269; Pp.36; *…

…5 beauties of a girl (see kalyāṇa) Ja.i.394; Dhp-a.i.387.

• -khādaka flesh-eater Ja.vi.530. *…

…(see under kalyāṇa)
■ Mitta is often combined with similar terms devoting relationship or friendship,…

…in kalyāṇa˚; being a good friend, friendship as a helper (see kalyāṇa) DN.iii.274; Vism.107.

abstr. fr….

…ādi-kalyāṇa majjhe; kalyāṇa ˚kalyāṇa with reference to the Dhamma (explained as “ekagāthā pi hi samanta-bhaddakattā dhammassa…

adjective noun masculine

Cases:
■ gen. dat. pañcannaṃ,
■ instr. abl pañcahi,
■ loc. pañcasu;
■ often used in compositional form pañca˚ (cp. Ved. pañcāra with 5 spokes RV i.164¹³; G …

…(˚ādīhi pañcahi kalyāṇa dhammehi samannāgatā patidevatā) = Ja.v.88; Kp-a.173.

• -uttara 1 preceding and…

…-kalyāṇaka (cp. BSk. pṛthagjana-kalyāṇaka Divy.419, Divy.429) an ordinary man striving after his spiritual…

…a bad companion (opp. kalyāṇa˚ MN.i.43, MN.i.470; DN.iii.182.

• -mittatā bad company, association with wicked…

…Dhs.101; Mil.204 (opp kalyāṇa); Vism.268 (= lāmaka), Vism.312 (of dreams, opp bhaddaka)
■ f. pāpikā Dhp.164,…

…uṭṭhāna˚, ārakkha˚, kalyāṇamittatā sammājīvitā, saddhā˚, sīla˚, cāga˚, paññā˚; of which the first 4 are explained in…

…Cp anu˚ Vin.ii.88.

fr….

kalyāṇa˚, pāpa˚, united with, MN.ii.222, MN.ii.227.

adj.

sweet result (of good words) kalyāṇakamma, Com.) Ja.vi.235, Ja.vi.237. Is it misspelling for sādhava (fr sādhu)?

… ■ The characteristic of a kalyāṇa-mitta is endowment with saddhā, sīla, cāga, paññā AN.iv.282. These four are counted as constituents…

…Ja.i.4 & Mil.97; Vism.147 (˚kalyāṇatā). -visākha a three-forked frown on the forehead SN.i.118; MN.i.109;…

…In compounds vaya˚.

• -kalyāṇa charm of youth Dhp-a.i.387.
• -ppatta come of age, fit to marry (at 16) Vv-a.120;…

…AN.iii.244; kalyāṇa˚; AN.iii.195, AN.iii.261 AN.iv.296; AN.v.155; pisuṇā & pharusā AN.i.128, AN.i.174, AN.i.268 sq….

˚- speech, voice, talk; only in cpd. -karaṇa talk, speaking conversation, as kālyāṇa-vāk-karaṇa good speech AN.ii.97; AN.iii.195, AN.iii.261; AN.iv.296 sq.; AN.iv.328; AN.v.155; abstr -ta A …

…the causal law SN.v.388; = kalyāṇa-kusala-dhammatā AN.ii.36; used in apposition with dhamma and kusala DN.ii.151; MN.ii.181, MN.ii.197; is…

…in phrase ādikalyāṇa majjhe-kalyāṇa pariyosāna-kalyāṇa of the Dhamma, “beautiful in the beginning, the middle the…