1. support, what one depends or relies on; refuge, shelter; dependence; reliance.
2. support, resource; requisite.
3. (a relation of) dependence and guidance and supervision (under an upajjhāya or ācariya)

1. 1. depending on, relying on; using as one’s support.
   2. because of; for the sake of.

2. in (formal) dependence, with support; having as mentor (+ gen. or acc.)

3. leaning against; beside; near.

…stand in Snp.800
■ Cp. nissāya & nissita.

• -kamma giving assistance or help, an (ecclesiastical act of help or…

…fig. meanings) Cnd.368 (= upanissāya, ārammaṇaṃ ālambanaṃ karitvā).

1. near, near by, on, at Ja.i.167 (pāsānapiṭṭhaṃ), Ja.i.221…

A monk of Sāvatthī who was found guilty of various Vinaya offences, and was therefore subjected to the Nissayakamma. Udāyī (Lāludāyi) was his friend and his evil genius. Vin.iii.110f.

Uttara¹

A monk whose verses are recorded in the Theragāthā. Thag.121–122

Uttara²

A monk whose verse are recorded in the Theragāthā. Thag.161–162

Uttara³

A *devapu …

requiring (formally acquired) supervision, requiring a mentor.

(from nissayati) depending on, relying on; dependence.

, ~ā, feminine having a support; having supporters or mentors.

leans on; relies on, depends on; resorts to.

of nissayati resorting to, inhabiting; dependent (on); leaning on; attached to, supported by; close to, connected to; resorted to

going near to; depending on; near (+acc. or gen.).

Foundation: nissaya one of the 24 conditions paccaya,. Wrong f. of morality, see: nissaya f. of sympathy: sangaha-vatthu f. f orming absorptions: pādaka-jjhāna, - f. o …

…on which mind-element and mind-consciousness element function; *yam rūpam nissāya manodhātu ca mano-viññāna-dhātu ca vattanti, tam…

Inducement: an alternative rendering for decisive-support condition, upanissaya is one of the 24 conditions paccaya.

Paccaya: ‘condition’, is something on which something else, the so-called ‘conditioned thing’, is dependent, and without which the latter cannot be. Many are the ways in which one thing, or one o …

Pakati-upanissaya: ‘direct inducement’; see: paccaya

Paticcasamuppāda: ‘dependent origination’, is the doctrine of the conditionality of all physical and psychical phenomena, a doctrine which, together with that of impersonality anattā, forms the …

Tanhā-nissita-sīla: ‘morality based on craving’ see: nissaya.

Ārammanupanissaya: Decisive Support Conditional Relation. see: paccaya

…Ja.ii.69 (tālamūlaṃ = nissāya ṭhita C.). 2. depending on, trusting in (c. acc. or loc.) Vv.10#1 (parâgāraṃ = nissita Vv-a.101);…

Asita¹

having eaten, eating; (nt.) that which is eaten or enjoyed, food MN.i.57; AN.iii.30, AN.iii.32 (˚pīta-khāyita etc.); Pv-a.25 (id.); Ja.vi.555 ˚(āsana having enjoyed one’s food, sa …

view, belief, dogma, theory, speculation, esp. false theory, groundless or unfounded opinion

1. The latter is rejected by the Buddha as pāpa˚; (AN.iv.172) and pāpikā d. (opp bhaddikā: AN.v.212 sq …

1. adj.
   1. lit. heavy, opp. lahu light, applied to bhāra, a load SN.iii.26; Ja.i.196 (= bhārika); Ja.vi.420; Dhp-a.i.48; Sdhp.494 (rūpagarubhāra the heavy load of “form”). Compa …

, f.) a cow, an ox, bull, pl. cattle. For f. cp gāvī; see also *gava*˚ for cpds
■ Sg. nom. go (Snp.580 also in composition, cp. aja-go-mahisādi Pv-a.80 = pasū) gen. gavassa (MN.i. …

“become of the lineage”; a technical term used from the end of the Nikāya period to designate one, whether layman or bhikkhu, who, as converted, was no longer of the worldlings (puthujjanā), but of th …

…(˚ṃ vā nigamaṃ vā upanissāya), Vin.iv.93 (piṇḍāya pavisati); gāmassa vā nigamassa vā avidūre DN.i.237; MN.i.488; gāme vā nigame…

…Vism.17.

• -bala(ṃ) (nissāya) by means of his leg (lit. by the strength of, cp. Fr. à force de)
• -magga a footpath…

…by, subsist on (c. instr. or nissāya). Imper pres. jīva Snp.427, very freq. with ciraṃ live long… as a salutation & thanksgiving. ciraṁ…

the doing, deed, work orig. meaning (see karoti) either building (cp. Lit kùrti, Opr. kūra to build) or weaving, plaiting (still in mālākamma and latā˚ “the intertwining of garland …

…Ja.vi.371): dhanu-koṭiṃ nissāya “through the (curved) end of my bow,” i.e. by means of hunting Ja.ii.200; aṭṭhi-koṭi the tip of the…

… ■ parakuḍḍaṃ nissāya Ja.ii.431 (near another man’s wall) is doubtful; vv. ll S. kuḍḍhaṃ. B. kuṭaṃ and kuṭṭaṃ….

…of through, by (= hetu or nissāya) Pv-a.27; imasmā k therefore Pv-a.40; kāraṇaṭṭhā (expl. as attha-kāraṇā Cnd) for the purpose…

…(katapuññaṃ). Pass. nissīyati Vv-a.83. pp. nissita ger. nissāya (q.v.).

Sk. niśrayati,…

dependence, requirement, resource Snp.856; Mnd.245.

abstr. to nissaya

adjective hanging on, dependent on, inhabiting; attached to, supported by, living by means of, relying on, being founded or rooted in, bent on As-˚ often in sense of a prep. = by means of, on account …

adjective one’s own Snp.149 (˚putta = orasaputta Kp-a.248); niyassakamma at AN.i.99 & Pv.iv.1#13 (variant reading Minayeff tiyassa) is to be read as nissayakamma (q.v.).

Sk. nija, q.v.

1. original or natural form, natural state or condition (lit. make-up); as ˚- = primary original, real Vin.i.189; Vin.ii.113; Ja.i.146 (˚vesena in her usual dress); Kp-a.173 (˚kammakara, ˚jeṭṭhaput …

adj. nt. only as t.t. in combination with kamma (official act, chapter), i.e. a formal proceeding by which a bhikkhu expiates an offence which he has committed against someone, reco …

tree. In the rukkha-mūlik’ anga (see below) Bdhgh at Vism.74 gives a list of trees which are not to be selected for the practice of “living at the root of a tree.” These are sīmantarika-rukkha, ceti …

1. attainment, success accomplishment; happiness, good fortune; blessing bliss AN.i.38; Pv.ii.9#47 (= sampatti Pv-a.132)
   ■ Sampadā in its pregnant meaning is applied to the accomplishments of th …

dependency, connection Ne.80.

saṃ + nissayatā

Sayati¹ [śī]

to lie down: see seti. Caus. ii. sayāpeti ibid.

Sayati² sevā* at Dhtp.289] to lean on; to be supported etc. …

…DN.i.50 (majjhimaṃ ˚ṃ nissāya), DN.ii.85 (id.); Snp.214; Vv.78#2 (veḷuriya˚, of the pillars of a Vimāna); Pv.iii.3#1 (id.);…

upa*, e.g. devūpaṭṭhāna, lokûpaga, puññûpatthambhita-Meanings:

1. (Rest): on upon, up-˚kiṇṇa covered over; ˚jīvati live on (cp. anu˚); ˚tthambhita propped up, sup-ported; ˚cita heap …

…Ja.iii.338 Ja.iv.271 (= anujīvati); Pv.ii.9#50 (Ankuraṃ u. ti taṃ nissāya jīvanti Pv-a.134); Mil.231.

upa + jīvati

basis, reliance, support, foundation, assurance, certainty; esp. sufficing condition or qualification for Arahantship (see long article in Childers s. v.); no 9 in the 24 paccayas, Tikapatthāṇa, Tikap …

to depend or rely on (acc.) Mil.240 (attānaṃ)
ger -nissāya (q.v.)
pp ˚nissita (q.v.).

upa + ni˚

adverb near, close by (with acc.); depending on, by means of (acc) MN.ii.3; SN.ii.269; Snp.867 (taṃ), Snp.901 (tāpa˚), Snp.978, Pv-a.9 (Rājagahaṃ), Pv-a.67 (id.) Vv-a.63 (Rājagaha-seṭṭhiṃ “with”). …

1. cause, means DN.ii.217, DN.ii.259; MN.iii.71 (samādhiṃ sa-upanisaṃ); SN.ii.30–SN.ii.32 (SN-a. = kāraṇa, paccaya); SN.v.25; AN.i.198; AN.iii.20, AN.iii.200 sq. AN.iii.360; AN.iv.99, AN.iv.336, AN. …

…(so read for vatth˚): nissāya te v. “thou must remain under the superintendence of others” (Vin. Texts, ii.344)
■ Often equal to…

…Ja.vi.424; Kp.viii.14 (= nissāya Kp-a.229); Pv-a.5, Pv-a.21 etc.

orig. ger. of āgacchati, q.v. under i.2 for form & under; ii.3 for…

primary meaning “foundation”, from this applied in the foll. senses:

1. support, help, footing, expedient, anything to be depended upon as a means of achieving what is desired, i.e. basis of operatio …