GijjhakūṭaVulture’s Peak

One of the five hills encircling Rājagaha. It was evidently a favourite resort of those who followed the religious life.

The Buddha seems to have been attracted by its solit …

…in the six environments (chalabhijātiyo) that they experience their pleasure or pain. The universe is divided into various classes of beings, of…

obtaining.

obtaining.

obtaining with ease; abundantly obtaining

obtaining easily

obtaining easily

possessing the six special knowledges or powers.

cushion stuffed with cloth.

obtaining with difficulty, only with great effort; scarcely obtaining

obtaining with difficulty, only with great effort; scarcely obtaining

obtaining with great difficulty; only with great trouble

obtaining with great difficulty; only with great trouble

outflow of good; issue of good

obtaining to one’s wish, at will.

obtaining to one’s wish, at will.

the blue-green class of beings.

is found, exists; is perceived; is ascertained; (upalabbhati)

leading to the obtaining of rebirth, or a new existence

…intelligent; thus in chalabhiñña one who possesses the 6 abhiññās Vin.iii.88; dandh˚; of sluggish intellect DN.iii.106; AN.ii.149;…

Abhiññā¹

feminine Rare in the older texts. It appears in two contexts. Firstly, certain conditions are said to conduce (inter alia) to serenity, to special knowledge (abhiññā), to specia …

…Pv.i.11#9 (= vinditvā paṭilabhitvā Pv-a.60). grd. -gantabba Iti.104 (nibbāna). cond. -gacchissaṃ Snp.446. 1^st aor. 3 sg….

…at Kp-a.180 by vindi paṭilabhi), Snp.956 (ratiṃ; expl^d. at Mnd.457 by adhigacchi); Iti.69 (jātimaraṇaṃ); Dhp.154…

…as “dhammena rajjaṃ labhitvā rājā jāto ti” = a king who gained the throne legitimately;

• -laddha one who has…

Jhāna¹

neuter literally meditation. But it never means vaguely meditation It is the technical term for a special religious experience reached in a certain order of mental states. It was or …

adjective miserable, painful, troubled wretched AN.iv.283; Snp.574; Ja.ii.136; Ja.iv.113 = Ja.vi.17; Pv.iv.1#21 (= Pv-a.229 dukkha)
■ adv. kasirā (abl.) with difficulty Ja.v.435; *-[kasirena](/d …

1. (adj.)
   1. distressed, in difficulty, poor, miserable, painful: kicchā vatâyaṃ idha vutti yaṃ jano passati kibbisakārī (miserable is the life of one who does wrong) Snp.676 = parihīnattha, in pov …

…alabdha) Ja.iii.138. (c) labhi Snp.994; 1^st sg. labhiṃ Thag.218; Thag.2, Thag.78; Ja.ii.154; Vv-a.68; &…

…occurs only in cpd. pa˚ in this special meaning “labhi vañcane”

adj.

1. (-˚) receiving, getting, having, possessed of MN.iii.39 (as n. “a receiver, recipient”) AN.i.24; AN.ii.85; AN.iv.400; Pp.51; Vb.332 (nikāma˚) Ja.i.140.
2. one who has intuition either in rea …

desire, pleasure, longing: only in compounds; see nanikāma.

• -kāra read by Kern (

  Toevoegselen

  174. at Thag.1271 for na kāmakāra but unjustified (see …

…expl^d by paṭilabhiṃsu cp. K. S. 319
aor 1^st sg paṭilacchiṃ Ja.v.71
caus paṭilābheti to cause to take…

merit meritorious action, virtue. Always represented as foundation and condition of heavenly rebirth & a future blissful state, the enjoyment (& duration) of which depends on the amount of merit accum …

thousand, used as a singular with a noun in the plural, sahassaṃ vācā Dhp.100; satasahassaṃ vassāni Ja.i.29; also in the plural after other numerals cattāri satasahassāni chaḷabhiññā Bv.ii.204 = J …

…pañca kahāpaṇa-satāni labhitvā with interest); Sdhp.40, Sdhp.230, Sdhp.258
■ See also uddaya.

*…

coming forth, product, genesis, origin, rebirth, occasion AN.ii.133 (˚paṭilābhikāni sanyojanāni); Vb.137 (˚bhava), Vb.411; cp. Compendium, 262 f. (khaṇa); Mil.127 (˚divasa); Vism.571 sq. (˚bhava 9 f …

roof; only in cpd. -ratha a large covered van (cp. yogga¹) MN.i.175 (sabba-setena vaḷabhī-rathena Sāvatthiyā niyyāti divā divaṃ); MN.ii.208 (id.), but *vaḷavābhi-*rathena); Ja.vi.266 …

mare, a common horse DN.i.5; Pp.58; Mhvs.10, Mhvs.54; Ja.i.180; Ja.vi.343; Dhp-a.i.399; Dhp-a.iv.4 (assatarā vaḷavāya gadrabhena jātā).

• -ratha a carriage drawn by a mare DN.i. …

one of the dogmatic terms of Buddhist teaching varying in meaning in diff. sections of the Canon. It is not always the positive to avijjā (which has quite a well-defined meaning f …

adjective glorious, famous, renowned, having all endowments or comforts of life (as explained at Cnd.530: yasappatta, sakkata, lābhī etc.) DN.i.48 (ñāta +) AN.ii.34; Snp.179, Snp.298, Snp.343, Snp.11 …