adjective primeval, of old; for ever, eternal DN.ii.240, DN.ii.244; SN.i.189 (cp. K.S. i.321: porāṇaka santānaṃ vā paṇḍitānaṃ dhamma); Dhp-a.i.51.

for sanātana (cp. purātana); Idg. *seno = Gr. ε …

(older); jaras (nt.) decay, decrepitude, old age Vin.i.10, Vin.i.34; AN.i.51, AN.i.138 (as death’s messenger); AN.v.144 sq. (bhabbo jaraṃ pahātuṃ); Snp.311 (cp. DN.iii.75); Ja.i.59; Thig.252 sq.; Vi …

old; rather old; an old man.

adjective noun old, venerable, of great age an old man DN.i.90 (opp. taruṇa), DN.i.94, DN.i.114, DN.i.247; Snp.313, Snp.603; Cnd.261 (vuḍḍha m. andhagata etc. Ja.iv.482 (opp. dahara young); Vv.46#1 (= …

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 …

1. (rare in the old texts) a flood of water Vv-a.48 (udak’ ogha); usually as mahogha a great flood Dhp.47; Vism.512; Vv-a.110; Dhp-a.ii.274 = Thag-a.175.
2. (always in sg.) th …

Vaya¹ & vayo

neuter age, especially young age, prime, youth; meaning “old age” when characterized as such or contrasted to youth (the ord. term for old age being jarā). …

adjective

1. ancient, past Snp.312, Snp.944 (= Mnd.428 atītaṃ opp. nava = paccuppannaṃ); Dhp.156 (= pubbe katāni C.); with ref. to former births or previous existences p. kammaṃ SN. …

only used with ref. to the bhikkhus of Gotama Buddha’s community
(adj.) senior Vin.i.47, Vin.i.290 (th. bhikkhū opp. navā bh.), Vin.i.159 (th bhikkhu a senior bh. opp. to navaka bh. a novice), Vin.i …

adjective (˚-) old, decayed (in disparaging sense), wretched, miserable; -ūdapānaṃ a spoilt well Ja.iv.387; -gava = ˚goṇa Pv.i.81; -goṇa [cp. Sk. jaradgava] a …

adjective old; f. -ikā old woman Thig.16. Vuddhi & vuddhi;

vuḍḍha + ka

the Vedic differentiations vetti “to know” and vindati “to find” are both in Pāli, but only in sporadic forms, some of which are archaic and therefore only found in poetry. Of * …

adjective

1. of a month, i.e. a month old Mil.302.
2. of a month, i.e. consisting of months so many months (old) (-˚), as aḍḍha˚; at intervals of half a month DN.i.166; MN.i.238, MN.i.343; Pp.55; …

old; worn out; an old man.

becoming old; old age.

having reached (old) age, old

Jīrati & Jīrayati

1. to destroy, bring to ruin, injure, hurt Vin.i.237 (jīrati); Ja.v.501 (variant reading BB for jarayetha, Com. vināseyya) = Ja.vi.375; Pv-a.57.
2. (cp. jīyati) to get old AN.iii.54 …

Jīrati & Jīrayati

1. to destroy, bring to ruin, injure, hurt Vin.i.237 (jīrati); Ja.v.501 (variant reading BB for jarayetha, Com. vināseyya) = Ja.vi.375; Pv-a.57.
2. (cp. jīyati) to get old AN.iii.54 …

undergoing birth, old age, and death; subject to birth, old age, and death.

…1 an ancient teacher, a scholar of previous times AN.i.132; AN.ii.70; Iti.110; Vism.523 = Vb-a.130; Kp-a.11, Kp-a.64, Kp-a.65 2 a former…

adjective

1. ancient, former, of old (cp. purāṇa 1) Ja.iii.16 (˚paṇḍitā); Pv-a.93 (id.), Pv-a.99 (id.); Dhp-a.i.346 (kula-santaka).
2. old, worn, much used (cp. purāṇa 2) Ja.iv.471 (magga).

fr. porāṇa

at Thig.265 is doubtful. The T. reading is “te rindī va lambante ’nodaka,” said of breasts hanging down in old age. The C. compares them with leather water bottles without water (udaka-bhastā viya) …

cursed, accursed Thag.118 “old age falls on her as if it had been cursed upon her (that is, laid upon her by a curse). Morris J.P.T.S. 1886 145 gives the commentator’s equivalents, “commanded worked b …

A teacher of old. He had numerous disciples, and those who followed his teachings were reborn in the Brahma world and in various other worlds. Then Sunetta, seeing that some among his disciples were a …

Vaccha¹

a calf Dhp.284; Ja.v.101; Vism.163 (in simile), Vism.269 (id.; kūṭa˚ a maimed calf); Dhs-a.62 (with popular etym. “vadatī ti vaccho”); Vv-a.100, Vv-a.200 (taruṇa˚). On *[vaccha] …

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 …

aged, old DN.ii.162; Ja.i.164 (˚pabbajita one who has become an ascetic in his old age). Compar. buḍḍhatara Dhp-a.ii.239 (variant reading K.B.S. vuḍḍhatara).

for vuḍḍha, pp. …

…Connected with the solar cult it is used with human arrangements to raise them to the level of heavenly ones and to impart to them a…

aging; old age.

an old bull.

The name given to a set of rules to be observed by members of the Buddhist Order. The rules regulate the behaviour of the members of the Order towards one another in respect of clothes, dwellings, fur …

jara¹

mfn. old; worn out.

jara²

masculine fever.

A devaputta. He once visited the Buddha at Jetavana and asked if one could, by travelling, reach the end of the world where there would be no birth, old age, death, etc. The Buddha said that such wa …

an old cart.

ekūnatiṃsa¹

num. 29

ekūnatiṃsa²

mfn. 29th; 29 (yrs. old).

Vessāmitta¹

A celebrated sage of old. Vin.i.245 DN.i.104 MN.ii.169 MN.ii.200 AN.iii.224 Vin.i.2451

Vessāmitta²

A Yakkha chief who, with five hundred others of the same name, w …

who has been dead for one day, being a day old corpse

beam supporting the framework of a roof, shaped Λ; fig. of old people, bent by age (see ˚vanka) Vin.iii.65, Vin.iii.81; SN.ii.263; SN.iii.156; SN.v.43, SN.v.228; MN.i.80; AN.i.261; AN.iii.364; AN.v.21 …

Vāseṭṭha¹

An old sage held in high esteem for his knowledge. He was one of the originators of the Vedic mantras. Vin.i.245 DN.i.104 MN.ii.164 MN.ii.200

Vāseṭṭha²

A clan, proba …

wet nurse, foster-mother DN.ii.19; MN.i.395 MN.ii.97; Ja.i.57; Ja.iii.391; Pv-a.16, Pv-a.176. In compounds dhāti˚; viz. -cela swaddling cloth, baby’s napkin SN.i.205; Ja.iii.30 …

about ten years old.

of eighty years; eighty years old.

old

A sage of old who led a good life and persuaded his followers to do likewise. He was among the originators of the Vedic hymns. Vin.i.245 DN.i.238 DN.i.239 MN.ii.169 MN.ii.200 AN.iii.224 AN.iii.229 AN.iv.61

an old jackal; a wretched jackal.

twelve years old.

old hall or shed.

at Ja.iii.120 is an old misreading & is to be corrected into; nipatāmase (= let us gather, bring together = dedicate), unless it be read as nipphadāmase (= do, set forth, prepare, give), in spite …

Patta¹

neuter

1. the wing of a bird, a feather Vin.iv.259; DN.i.71. kukkuṭa˚ a hen’s quill (for sewing) Vin.ii.215
2. a leaf MN.i.429; Snp.44 = Snp.64 (sañchinna˚, see Cnd.625); Snp.625 ( …

adjective old, ancient, former DN.i.71, DN.i.238; SN.ii.267; Snp.313; Dhp.227 (cp. Dhp-a.iii.328); Ja.ii.15 (˚kāle in the past); Vb-a.1 (˚aṭṭhakathā), Vb-a.523 (id.); Kp-a.247 (˚pāṭha); Snp-a.131 …

adjective belonging to the past, former, old Ne-a.194.

fr. purā, cp. sanātana in formation

adverb adjective

1. (adv. & prep.) beyond, on the further side of (with abl. or loc.), over Pv-a.168 (para Gangāya, variant reading ˚āyaṃ). See in same meaning & application paraṃ, paro and parā & c …

Initial o in Pali may represent a Vedic o or a Vedic au (see ojas, ogha, etc.). Or it may be guṇa of u (see oḷārika opakammika, etc.). But it is usually a prefix representing Vedi …

adjective 90 years old Ja.iii.395 (˚ā itthi); Snp-a.172.

fr. navuti

Jarā: ‘old age, decay’, is one of the 3 divine messengers see: deva-dūta. For its conditioning by birth, see: paticcasamuppāda 11.

Age: Old: Jarā

leading to birth, old age and death in the future

āsītika¹

mfn. of eighty years; eighty years old.

āsītika²

masculine a name of a creeper.

being thirty years old; lasting for 30 years.

more than a year old; (according to commentary: rained on for a long time)

an old well, an abandoned well.

ninety years old.

how old in the saṅgha? having spent how many rain retreats as a bhikkhu?

jīyati¹

pr. 3 sg. grows old; decays, wears out; perishes.

jīyati²

pass. pr. 3 sg. is oppressed; is deprived of; loses.

is made old; is made to wear out.

, abstr. the state of being decayed or aged, old age, decay, decrepitude.

old, senior, from (time of) birth.

undergoing birth, old age, and death.

producing (further) birth, old age and death.

meeting, a joining, of or with old age and death.

an old house.

subject to growing old or decaying.

A king of old, whose wheelwright was the Buddha in a past life. AN.i.110

Thāvara¹

adjective “standing still,” immovable (opp to tasa) firm, strong (Ep. of an Arahant: Kp-a.245; Dhp-a.iv.176. Always in connection with tasa, contrasting or com …

Therī & Therikā

feminine

1. an old woman (cp. sthavirikā Mvu.iii.283) Pv.ii.11#6 (= thāvarijiṇṇā Pv-a.149).
2. a female thera (see compounds), as therikā at Thig.1; Dpvs.xviii.11.

• *-[gāthā](/de …

Vivatta-cchada

adjective having the cover removed, with the veil lifted; one who draws away the veil (cp. vivaraṇa or reveals (the Universe etc.); or one who is freed of all (mental & spiritual) cov …

Vuḍḍha & vuddha

old (fig. venerable)

1. vuḍḍha Pv.ii.11#4; Mhvs.13, Mhvs.2.
2. vuddha MN.ii.168; Ja.v.140; Snp.p.108 (+ mahallaka); DN-a.i.283.

pp. of vaḍḍhati

Vuḍḍha & vuddha

old (fig. venerable)

1. vuḍḍha Pv.ii.11#4; Mhvs.13, Mhvs.2.
2. vuddha MN.ii.168; Ja.v.140; Snp.p.108 (+ mahallaka); DN-a.i.283.

pp. of vaḍḍhati

decaying, getting old Dhtp.252.

fr. jīr

the state of being decayed or aged, old age decay, decrepitude MN.i.49; SN.ii.2; Cnd.252 = Dhs.644; Pv-a.149. Jirati & Jirayati;

n. abstr. of jīr = jar, see jarati; cp. jarā & jiṇṇatā

1. name of certain non-human beings, as spirits, ogres, dryads, ghosts spooks. Their usual epithet and category of being is amanussa, i.e. not a human being (but not a sublime g …

dirty, old rag, torn garment (of a bhikkhu) Thag.199.

kad-paṭa = ku-paṭa

adjective 80 years old MN.ii.124; Ja.iii.395; Snp-a.172.

fr. asīta

Āsītika

masculine a certain plant MN.i.80 = MN.i.245 (˚pabba).

etym.? Cp. BSk. āsītakī Lal.319

adjective lit. old, i.e. venerable; used, either as adj. or absolute as a respectful appellation of a bhikkhu of some standing (cp. the semantically identical thera). It occurs usua …

adjective advanced in years, old, of age Thag.234.

fr. āyu

…in phrase ullaṅgheti olaṅgheti to make dance up down Ja.v.434 = Dhp-a.iv.197 (the latter has T. ullaggheti ol˚; but variant reading…