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

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 …

…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…

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

…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….

…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…

…Dhp-a.i.7; Dhp-a.iv.37; asamadhura Ja.i.193; Ja.vi.330. Three dhurā are enumerated at Ja.iv.242 as saddhā˚, sīla˚, and paññā˚
■…

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

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

Vedic gargara throat, whirlpool. *gṷer…

…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…

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

• -ābhiññāṇa recollection due to speech Mil.78, Mil.79
• -ojja…

…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…

…Ja.v.37 (˚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…

…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 …

…give 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…

…Cnd.344; Dhs.621; Vv-a.140 (madhura˚); Vv-a.334 (in quotation appa-sadda, appa˚); Sdhp.245. 2. (adj. noiseless, quiet, still Snp.959 (=…

…Toevoegselen

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

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

…tittaka*, kaṭuka, kasāya, madhura.

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

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

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

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

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

• -vada of lovely speech or enunciation…