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pāli, 480 találat.

pali →

pts

Pali˚

round, around (= pari) only as prefix in cpds (q.v.). Often we find both pari˚ & pali˚ in the same word.

a variant of pari˚, to be referred to the Māgadhī dialect in which it is found most fre …

pāli →

pts

…writings; the text of the Pāli Canon, i.e. the original text (opp. to the Commentary; thus “pāliyaṃ” is opposed to…

pāḷi →

pts

…writings; the text of the Pāli Canon, i.e. the original text (opp. to the Commentary; thus “pāliyaṃ” is opposed to…

ajitakesakambala →

dppn

AjitakesakambalaKesakambalaAjita

Head of one of the six heretical sects mentioned in the Pitakas as being contemporaneous with the Buddha. He is described as a Titthaka (non-Buddhist teacher), leade …

ajjuka →

dppn

…parties concerned and was reported to Ānanda. The case went up before Upāli, who decided in favour of Ajjuka. Vin.iii.66–67

ambapālivana →

dppn

…took place between Anuruddha and Sāriputta during a stay in Ambapālivana. SN.v.301

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ambapālī →

dppn

AmbapālīAmbapālikā

A courtesan of Vesāli. She became a devout follower of the Buddha, and building a vihāra in her own garden, gave it to…

anupiya →

dppn

…Devadatta and their barber, Upāli. Vin.ii.180f.

From Anupiya the Buddha went to Kosambi. Vin.ii.184 Near Anupiya was the park where the…

anuruddha →

dppn

…Devadatta and their barber Upāli, to the Blessed One at the Anupiya Mango Grove and were ordained. Before the rainy season was over Anuruddha…

asura →

dppn

In Pali Literature the Asuras are classed among the inferior deities together with the supaṇṇas, gandhabbas, yakkhas, garuḍas and nāgas. Rebirth as an Asura is considered as one of the four …

ayujjhā →

dppn

AyujjhāAyojjhā

Two visits of the Buddha to this city are recorded in the Canon; on one occasion he preached the Phena Sutta SN.iii.140ff. and on the other the Dārukkhandha Sutta, although the latte …

bhaddiya →

dppn

Bhaddiya1

An anāgāmī, one of seven persons who became arahants as soon as they were born in Avihā. SN.i.35 SN.i.60

Bhaddiya2Kāligodhāputta

Chief among monks of aristocratic …

bharukaccha →

dppn

…the road to Bharukaccha, thought he was guilty of a pārājika offence. But Upāli ruled that he was blameless….

dakkhiṇāpatha →

dppn

In the old Pāḷi literature the name Dakkhiṇāpatha would seem to indicate only a remote settlement or colony on the banks of the upper Godāvarī. Thus, we are told that Bāvarī had his hermitage in Dakkh …

devadatta →

dppn

…and their barber, Upāli, and he sought the Buddha at Anupiya and entered the Order. Vin.ii.182 During the rainy season that followed,…

dīghatapassī →

dppn

…to Nāṭaputta and Upāli, who was listening, went, against the advice of Dīghatapassī, to the Buddha and challenged him to a discussion,…

gijjhakūṭa →

dppn

…Puṇṇa Mantāniputta, Upāli and Devadatta, SN.ii.155 Cunda, and Channa. SN.iv.55

Channa fell ill there, and ultimately committed suicide….

giñjakāvasatha →

dppn

…one of these visits that Ambapāli presented her park to the Buddha and the Order. Vin.i.232

In the Giñjakāvasatha the Buddha preached the…

inda →

dppn

Inda1

Given in the Āṭānāṭiya Sutta as the name of the ninety-one sons of Dhataraṭṭha, king of the Gandhabbas. They are represented as being of great strength and followers of the Buddha. …

kappitaka →

dppn

…him, but he was warned by Upāli, and lay hidden elsewhere until the nuns had destroyed his cell and gone away under the impression that he was…

koṭigāma →

dppn

…the Buddha was there, Ambapāli and hosts of Licchavis came from Vesāli to visit him, and Ambapāli gave him a meal. From Koṭigāma the Buddha…

lakkhī →

dppn

LakkhīLacchī

Normally Lakkhī is the Pali equivalent of the goddess of luck, Lakśmī. However in the early texts the name only appears in one obscure Therīgāthā verse. Thig.421

licchavī →

dppn

A powerful tribe of India in the time of the Buddha. They were certainly khattiyas, for on that ground they claimed a share of the Buddha’s relics. DN.ii.165

Their capital was Vesāli, and they form …

macchikāsaṇḍa →

dppn

…Anuruddha, Revata, Upāli, Ānanda and Rāhula; these all went there while travelling in the Kāsi kingdom.

The books contain, besides…

mahākassapa →

dppn

MahākassapaKassapaPippali

One of the Buddha’s most eminent disciples, chief among those who upheld austere practices. AN.i.23 His personal name was Pippali, but he is usually known by his clan name K …

nigaṇṭha nāṭaputta →

dppn

…Nāṭaputta had allowed Upāli to visit him in spite of the warning of Dīgha-Tapassī as to the Buddha’s arresting personality. But…

nāḷandā →

dppn

…he had discussions with Upāli-Gahapati and Dīghatapassī, SN.ii.110 MN.i.376ff. with Kevaṭṭa, DN.i.211ff. and also several…

pippaliguhā →

dppn

PippaliguhāPipphaligūhā

A cave near Rājagaha, evidently a favourite haunt of Mahā Kassapa. Once when he lay there grievously ill, the Buddha visited him and cheered him by talking to him of the seven …

piṅgiyānī →

dppn

A brahmin of Vesāli. The Aṅguttara Nikāya records a conversation between him and Kāraṇapālī. The latter meets Piṅgiyānī and, on learning that he was returning from a visit to the Buddha, asks him abou …

pālileyya →

dppn

PālileyyaPārileyyaPārileyyaka

A town near Kosambī. When the Buddha found that he could not persuade the Kosambī monks to refrain from…

pātaligāma →

dppn

…was known to the Greeks as Pālibothra, and Megasthenes, who spent some time there, has left a vivid description of it (Buddhist India 262f). It…

pātimokkha →

dppn

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 …

pāvārikambavana →

dppn

…Sutta and the Upāli Sutta. Among those who visited the Buddha there are mentioned Kevaddha, Upāligahapati and…

rājagaha →

dppn

…the Sattarasavaggiyā with Upāli at their head.

The Buddha spent his first vassa in Rājagaha and remained there during the winter and the…

taṇḍulapālidvārāya →

dppn

TaṇḍulapālidvārāyaTaṇḍulapālidvāraTandulapāladvāra

One of the gates of Rājagaha. Near the gate was the residence of the brahmin…

tittiriyābrāhmanā →

dppn

The Pāḷi equivalent of the Sanskrit Taittirīyā. It refers to students of a branch of brahmanical lore. DN.i.237

upāli →

dppn

…which is recorded in the Upāli Sutta, Upāli is converted and invites the Buddha to a meal. Although the Buddha enjoins upon Upāli that his…

uttarāpatha →

dppn

The northern division of Jambudīpa. Its boundaries are nowhere explicitly stated in Pāḷi literature. Perhaps Uttarāpatha was originally the name of a great trade-route, the northern high road which e …

vesāli →

dppn

…entered into the vassa, Ambapāli invited the Buddha and the monks to a meal, at the conclusion of which she gave her Ambavana for the use of the…

veṇhu →

dppn

A deva who was present, with his retinue, at the preaching of the Mahāsamaya Sutta. DN.ii.259 Veṇhu is a Pāḷi form of Viṣṇu.

videha →

dppn

A country and its people. At the time of the Buddha, Videha formed one of the two important principalities of the Vajjian confederacy. Its capital was Mithilā. The kingdom bordered on the Ganges, on o …

yona →

dppn

YonaYavānaYonakā

A country and its people. The name is probably the Pāḷi equivalent for Ionians, the Baktrian Greeks. The Yonas are mentioned with the Kambojas in the Assalāyana Sutta MN.ii.149 as pl …

anupalitta →

ncped

not attached to; not sticking to

anūpalitta →

ncped

not attached to; not sticking to

atta →

ncped

atta1

masculine

  1. the self, the soul, as a permanent, unchangeable, autonomous entity (always rejected by the Pāḷi Buddhist texts as not corresponding to any reality).
  2. the self, one’s …

dhammapada →

ncped

  1. a portion of dhamma; an element of practice; a portion of the teaching.
  2. one of the collections making up the Khuddakanikāya of the Pāḷi canon.

dīghanikāya →

ncped

the group of long discourses (one of the divisions of the Suttapiṭaka of the Pāḷi canon)

gopālikā →

ncped

cowgirl.

iti →

ncped

iti1

ind. (before vowels except i usually taking the form ice or, occasionally, itv), in this way; so; thus (often following a clause ending with ti); iti is used especially to mark

  1. a …

itivuttaka →

ncped

the name of one of the nine categories (angās) of the scriptures; one of the collections making up the Khuddakanikāya of the Pāḷi Canon

jātaka →

ncped

jātaka1

neuter a birth; a story describing a previous life of the Buddha (when he was a bodhisatta); the name of one of the nine categories (aṅgas) of the scriptures; one of the collec …

kulapaligedhi →

ncped

greedy, selfish about families

kulapaligedhin →

ncped

greedy, selfish about families

okhittapaligha →

ncped

with crossbars put down (into position)

theragāthā →

ncped

theragāthā1

feminine a verse of an elder; a verse from the Theragāthā.

theragāthā2

feminine pl. the verses of the elders; one of the collections making up the Khuddakanikāya o …

therapāli →

ncped

of therapāḷi

therapāḷi →

ncped

the fine, the list, of elders.

therīgāthā →

ncped

the verses of the female elders; one of the collections making up the Khuddakanikāya of the Pāḷi Canon.

udāna →

ncped

  1. (m. n.) a joyful or inspired utterance (often in verse).
  2. (n.) the name of one of the nine categories (aṅgas) of the scriptures; one of the collections making up the Khuddakanikāya of the Pāḷi Canon.

ukkhittapaligha →

ncped

“with crossbar raised”, with obstacles removed

upalikkhati →

ncped

  1. sg. scratches, cuts, wounds.

upalimpati →

ncped

upalimpati1

pr. 3 sg. anoints; smears; defiles.

upalimpati2

pass. pr. 3 sg.

  1. is smeared, is defiled (by, instr.).
  2. is attached to, sticks, adheres (to, loc.)

upalippati →

ncped

(also upalimpati (?))

  1. is smeared, is defiled (by, instr.).
  2. is attached to, sticks, adheres (to, loc.)

upalitta →

ncped

attached to; sticking to

uppalinī →

ncped

multitude or clump of lotuses; a lotus pond.

āropanā →

ncped

(& ~a n.?) raising, putting on or into; impaling (on a stake); stringing (of a bow); ascribing, indictment.

āvāsapaligedhi →

ncped

greedy, selfish about dwellings

āvāsapaligedhin →

ncped

greedy, selfish about dwellings

bodhisatta →

nyana

…IV, 127; VIII, 70.

In the Pāli Canon and commentaries, the designation ‘Bodhisatta’ is given only to Prince Siddhattha before his enlightenment…

paccaya →

nyana

…Relations Published by the Pāli Text Society, London 1969, 1981. For a synopsis of this work, see Guide VII.

The 24 modes of conditionality…

palibodha →

nyana

Palibodha: ‘obstacles’, is the term for the following things if they obstruct the Bhikkhu in the strict practice of a subject of meditation: a crowded monastery, travelling, relatives, association …

pātimokkha →

nyana

…community of fully ordained Bhikkhus Bhikkhu.

See The Patimokkha, Romanized Pāli text and transl. by ñānamoli Thera Bangkok 1966,…

theravāda →

nyana

…handed down to us in the Pāli language. According to tradition, its name is derived from the fact of having been fixed by 500 Noble Elders of…

ti-pitaka →

nyana

…the 3 main divisions of the Pāli Canon: the Basket of Discipline Vinaya Pitaka, the Basket of Discourses Sutta Pitaka and the Basket ot Philosophy…

ti-sarana →

nyana

…3-fold Refuge in Pāli, by the uttering of which one may also outwardly profess one’s faith, is still the same as in the Buddha’s…

abbhuta →

pts

…to be constructed from the Pāli & offers like its companion *āścarya (acchariya abbhuta see below) serious difficulties as to etym. The most…

abbhāmatta →

pts

…matta (?) according to the Pāli Com.; but more likely = Vedic abhva huge, enormous monstrous, with ā metri causa. On abhva (a +…

abhi →

pts

…the foll. verbs we find in Pāli one or other of these three prefixes. So ati in ˚jāti, ˚pīḷita, ˚brūheti, ˚vassati,…

abhiññā →

pts

…and in medieval and modern Pāli, abhiññā, nine times out ten, means just the powers given in this list. Here and there we find glimpses of the…

acchariya →

pts

…The conventional etym. of Pāli grammarians connects it with accharā1 (which is prob. correct & thus reduces Sk. āścarya to a…

adhīyati →

pts

…1st sg. adhīye taken as base in Pāli

aja →

pts

…(cp. Mhvs.iii.302).

  • -pālikā a woman goatherd Vin.iii.38.
  • -lakkhaṇa “goat-sign”, i.e. prophesying from…

akkhaṇa →

pts

…(a Sanskritised Pāli form cp. Mathurā kṣuṇa = Sk. kṣaṇa) at Divy.58, Divy.100, Divy.442 (always with dūrevedha), where MSS….

akkosati →

pts

…vi.417 cp. Franke, Einh. Pāli-gramm. 37, and Geiger, P. Gr. § 164)
pp akkuṭṭha (q.v.).

to krus see…

alaṃ →

pts

…(since the practice of the Pāli grammarians) to regard them as interdependent and interpret the construction as “fit for, proper” (= yuttaṃ…

ambakā →

pts

mother, good wife used as a general endearing term for a woman Vin.i.232; DN.ii.97 (here in play of words with Ambapālī expld. by Bdhgh at Vin.i.385 as ambakā ti itthiyikā).

Sk. ambikā dem …

ammaṇa →

pts

…ampaṇaka); DN-a.i.84.

of uncertain etym.; Sk. armaṇa is Sanskritised Pāli. See on form & meaning Childers s. v. and Kern,

anabhāva →

pts

the utter cessation of becoming. In the oldest Pali only in adj. form anabhāvaṃ kata or gata. This again found only in a string of four adjectives together expressing the most utter destruction. They …

anavaya →

pts

adjective not lacking, complete in (loc.), fulfilling DN.i.88 (= anūna paripūra-kārin DN-a.i.248); AN.iii.152 (= samatta paripuṇṇa AA quoted by Tr. on Mil.10).

derivation doubtful. See Trenckner *P …

anu →

pts

…anu is freq found in Pāli where the Sk. variant presents apa (for ava), abhi or ava. For P. anu = Sk. (Ved.) apa see…

anupalitta →

pts

adjective unsmeared, unstained, free from taint MN.i.319, MN.i.386 (in verse); as -ūpalitta in verse of Sn & Dh: Snp.211 (= lepānaṃ abhāvā Snp-a.261), 392 468, 790, 845; Dhp.353.

an + upalitta

anūpalitta →

pts

adjective free from taint, unstained, unsmeared Snp.211, Snp.392, Snp.468, Snp.790 Snp.845; Dhp.353; cf. Mnd.90 and Dhp-a.iv.72.

an + upalitta, with ū in metre

apa →

pts

…vya˚ etc.). Thus we find in Pāli apa where Vedic and later literary Sk. have ava in the foll. instances: apakanti, ˚kassati, ˚kirati, ˚gata,…

apalibodha →

pts

Apalibuddha & Apalibodha

unobstructed, unhindered, free Ja.iii.381 (˚bodha); Mil.388; Dhp-a.iii.198.

a + palibuddha, pp. of pari + bṛh, see palibujjhati

apalibuddha →

pts

Apalibuddha & Apalibodha

unobstructed, unhindered, free Ja.iii.381 (˚bodha); Mil.388; Dhp-a.iii.198.

a + palibuddha, pp. of pari + bṛh, see palibujjhati

appāṇaka →

pts

…Mvu.ii.124; should the Pāli form be taken as *a + prāṇaka?] 2. not holding anything breathing, i.e. inanimate, lifeless not containing…

ariya →

pts

…in English).

Vedic ārya, of uncertain etym. The other Pāli forms are ayira & ayya

asnāti →

pts

to eat; imper asnātu Ja.v.376.

Sk. aśnāti to eat, to take food; the regular Pāli forms are asati (as base) and asanāti

assāsika →

pts

…whereas the corresponding Pāli equivalent runs anicca addhuva asassata (= appāyuka) vipariṇāma-dhamma thus inviting the conjecture that…

asura →

pts

…in the oldest books of the Pāli Canon and occurs in identical description at the foll. passages under; the title of devāsura-saṅgāma:…

ati →

pts

…we frequently find ati in Pāli, where the corresp. expression in later Sk. shows abhi. See e.g. the foll. cases for comparison: accuṇha…

attha →

pts

Attha1

(also aṭṭha, esp. in combinations mentioned under 3) masculine & neuter

  1. interest, advantage, gain; (moral) good blessing, welfare; profit, prosperity, well-b …

ava →

pts

…ossajati

  1. The Pāli form (o˚ shows a differentiation in meaning against the later Sanskrit forms (ava˚;). See…

avekkhati →

pts

…Dhp.50, Ja.iv.6; Dhp-a.i.259 (= passati).

B.Sk. avīkṣate. The regular Pāli form however is apekkhati, to which the BSk. av˚ corresponds

avijjā →

pts

ignorance; the main root of evil and of continual rebirth (see paṭicca-samuppāda, cp. SN.ii.6, SN.ii.9, SN.ii.12; Snp.p.141 & many other passages) See on term; Cpd. 83 n. 3, 18 …

avīci →

pts

…at many passages of the Pāli canon, e.g at Vin.ii.203 = Iti.86; Mnd.18, Mnd.347, Mnd.405 = Cnd.304 iiid; Pts.i.83; Dhs.1281; Ja.i.71, Ja.i.96;…

ayaṃ →

pts

…[Sk. anena is not proved in Pāli.]
abl. asmā Snp.185; Dhp.220; imasmā (not proved).;
loc. m. nt….

bahati →

pts

Bahati1 [bṛh1]

to pull, see ab˚, ub˚, nib˚, & cp. udabbahe, pavāḷha.

Bahati2

to strengthen, increase, see brūhana (upa˚); otherwise only in pp …

bala →

pts

Bala1

neuter

  1. strength power, force DN.ii.73; AN.i.244; Thag.188; Dhp.109 (one of the 4 blessings, viz. āyu, vaṇṇa, sukha, bala; cp Dhp-a.ii.239); Pv.i.5#12 (= kāya-bala Pv-a.30); Pv …

bali →

pts

  1. religious offering, oblation DN.ii.74 (dhammika); AN.iv.17, AN.iv.19; Snp.223; Mhvs.36, Mhvs.88 (particularly to subordinate divinities, cp. Mvu. translation 263) Dhp-a.ii.14 (variant reading ˚k …

balisa →

pts

Balisa & Baḷisa

masculine & neuter a fish-hook SN.ii.226 = SN.iv.158 (āmisa-gataṃ b.); Cnd.374 (kāma˚ variant reading palisa); Ja.i.482 sq.; Ja.iii.283; Ja.iv.195; Ja.v.273 sq. Ja.v.389; Ja.vi.416; …

balīyati →

pts

to have strength, to grow strong, to gain power, to overpower Snp.770 (= sahati parisahati abhibhavati Mnd.12, cp. Mnd.361); Ja.iv.84 (vv.ll. khalī˚ & paliyy˚; C explains by avattharati) = Pv.ii.6#1 ( …

bandhati →

pts

to bind etc.

I. Forms

imper bandha DN.ii.350; pl. bandhantu Ja.i.153.
pot bandheyya SN.iv.198; Vin.iii.45
fut bandhayissati Mhvs.24.6;
aor abandhi Ja.iii. …

baḷisa →

pts

Balisa & Baḷisa

masculine & neuter a fish-hook SN.ii.226 = SN.iv.158 (āmisa-gataṃ b.); Cnd.374 (kāma˚ variant reading palisa); Ja.i.482 sq.; Ja.iii.283; Ja.iv.195; Ja.v.273 sq. Ja.v.389; Ja.vi.416; …

bhadda →

pts

Bhaddaa & Bhadrab

adjective

  1. auspicious lucky, high, lofty, august, of good omen reverend (in address to people of esteem), good, happy fortunate DN.ii.95a; SN.i.1 …

bhajati →

pts

to associate with (acc.), keep companionship with, follow, resort to; to be attached to (acc.), to love. Freq. syn. of sevati. The Dhtp & Dhtm mark the fig. meaning (bhaj2</su …

bhamuka →

pts

Bhamuka & Bhamukha

(f.) eyebrow Thig.232 = SN.i.132 pamukh- Ja.iv.18 (in expln of su-bbhū = su-bhamukhā in C. Fausböll puts “bhamuka”? Kern on this passage quotes BSk. bhrūmukha, see

bhamukha →

pts

Bhamuka & Bhamukha

(f.) eyebrow Thig.232 = SN.i.132 pamukh- Ja.iv.18 (in expln of su-bbhū = su-bhamukhā in C. Fausböll puts “bhamuka”? Kern on this passage quotes BSk. bhrūmukha, see

bhante →

pts

voc. of polite address: Sir, venerable Sir, used like bhadante. Either abs. as voc.: Vin.i.76; DN.ii.154, DN.ii.283; Ja.ii.111; Ja.iii.46; Mil.19; or with another voc.: Mil.25; or with other oblique c …

bhasma →

pts

ashes SN.i.169 = Cnd.576 (loc bhasmani); Vv.84#44; Ja.iii.426; Vism.469 (in comparison).

  • -antāhuti (bhasm’ ant’ āhuti) “whose sacrifice ends in ashes” DN.i.55 (so read for bhassant˚, according t …

bhasman →

pts

ashes SN.i.169 = Cnd.576 (loc bhasmani); Vv.84#44; Ja.iii.426; Vism.469 (in comparison).

  • -antāhuti (bhasm’ ant’ āhuti) “whose sacrifice ends in ashes” DN.i.55 (so read for bhassant˚, according t …

bhavant →

pts

pronoun of polite address “Sir, Lord, or “venerable, honourable,” or simply “you.” Cases as follows (after Geiger,

Pali Grammar

§ 98#3): sg. nom. bhavaṃ Snp.486; DN.i.249; MN.i.484. nt. bhavaṃ

bhavati →

pts

to become, to be, exist, behave etc. (cp. Cnd.474 sambhavati jāyati nibbattati pātu-bhavati)

I. Forms

There are two bases used side by side, viz bhav˚; and (contracted) ho˚; the latte …

bhisakka →

pts

physician MN.i.429; AN.iii.238 AN.iv.340; Iti.101; Mil.169, Mil.215, Mil.229, Mil.247 sq., Mil.302; Vism.598 (in simile); DN-a.i.67, DN-a.i.255.

cp. Vedic bhiṣaj physician, P. bhesajja medicine & s …

bhisi →

pts

Bhisi1

feminine a bolster, cushion pad, roll Vin.i.287 sq. (cīvara˚ a robe rolled up); Vin.ii.150 Vin.ii.170; Vin.iii.90; Vin.iv.279. Five kinds are allowed in a Vihāra, viz. uṇṇa-bhisi …

bhū →

pts

Bhū1

adjective being, (n.) creature, living being in pāṇa-bhū a living being (a breathing being) Ja.v.79 (= pāṇa-bhūta C.).

fr. bhū

Bhū2

feminine the ear …

bodha →

pts

Bodha1

form is sambodha = bodhi, viz. knowledge, wisdom, enlightenment, Buddhaship DN.iii.54 (variant reading sam˚); Dhs-a.217; in phrase bodhāya maggo Ja.i.67; Mil.244, Mil.289; and in …

bodhi →

pts

Bodhi1

feminine (supreme knowledge, enlightenment, the knowledge possessed by a Buddha (see also sambodhi & sammā-sambodhi) MN.i.356; MN.ii.95 = DN.iii.237 (saddho h …

brahma →

pts

Brahma & Brahmā

I. Brahman

neuter [cp. Vedic bráhman nt. prayer; nom. sg bráhma]

  1. the supreme good; as a buddhistic term used in a sense different from the brahmanic (save in controvers …

brahmā →

pts

Brahma & Brahmā

I. Brahman

neuter [cp. Vedic bráhman nt. prayer; nom. sg bráhma]

  1. the supreme good; as a buddhistic term used in a sense different from the brahmanic (save in controvers …

brūmeti →

pts

to say DN.i.95 (explained as “brūmetū ti vadatu” DN-a.i.265).

possible Caus. fr. brūti, but as Geiger,

Pali Grammar

§ 141#2, rightly remarks “not critically sound”

brūti →

pts

to say, tell, call; show explain DN.i.95; Snp.308 sq.; Dhp.383 sq.; Cp.vi.8; Mil.314, Mil.327
■ Constructed with double acc. or with dat of person & acc. of thing said (cp. Mil.233)
Forms: Pre …

buddhati →

pts

to obstruct, withhold etc.: see pali˚.

bādhati →

pts

to press, weigh on; oppress, hinder afflict, harm DN.ii.19; Ja.i.211; Ja.iv.124; Vism.400; Dhp-a.i.24. grd. bādhitabba Thag-a.65; Pass. bādhiyati to be afflicted, to become sore, to suffer Snp- …

bāhā →

pts

  1. the arm AN.ii.67 = AN.iii.45 (˚bala); Vin.ii.105; Ja.iii.62; Ja.v.215 (˚mudu). pacchā-bāhaṃ arm(s) behind (his back) DN.i.245 (gāḷhabandhanaṃ baddha). bāhaṃ pasāreti to stretch out the arm DN. …

ca →

pts

(indef. enclitic particle)

  1. Indefinite (after demonstr. pron. in the sense of kiṃ = what about? or how is it? cp. kiṃ) = ever, whoever what-ever, etc. [Sk. kaśca, Gr. ὁς τε, Lat: quisque Goth. h …

camu →

pts

an army Ja.ii.22; camūpati a general Mhvs.10, Mhvs.65; Mhvs.23, Mhvs.4; Dāvs i.3.

Both derivation and exact meaning uncertain. The Vedic camū is a peculiar vessel into wh. the Soma flows from the pre …

candimā →

pts

…canda + mā, cp. māsa. The Pāli form, however, is based on a supposed derivation fr canda + mant, like bhagavā, and is most likely m. On this…

cīvara →

pts

the (upper) robe of a Buddhist mendicant C. is the first one of the set of 4 standard requisites of a wandering bhikkhu, vir. c˚, piṇḍapāta alms-bowl, *[senāsana](/define/senās …

dadāti →

pts

…foll. bases form the Pāli verb-system: dā, dāy, dadā & di.

  1. Bases dā & (reduced); da
    1. dā˚: fut….

danta →

pts

Danta1

a tooth, a tusk, fang, esp. an elephant’s tusk; ivory Vin.ii.117 (nāga-d. a pin of ivory); Kp ii. (as one of the taca-pañcaka, or 5 dermatic constituents of the body, viz. kesā, l …

dassati →

pts

…conspicuous. The regular Pāli Pres. is dakkhiti (younger dakkhati), a new formation from the aor. addakkhi = Sk. adrākṣīt The Sk. Fut….

dhamma →

pts

…by M. & W. Geiger, Pāli Dhamma. Abhandlungen der Bayer. Akademie xxxi.1; München 1920; which reached the editors too late to be made…

dukkha →

pts

adjective noun

  1. (adj. unpleasant, painful, causing misery (opp. sukha pleasant Vin.i.34; Dhp.117. Lit. of vedanā (sensation) MN.i.59 (˚ṃ vedanaṃ vediyamāna, see also below iii.1 …

dussa →

pts

Dussa1

neuter woven material, cloth, turban cloth; (upper) garment, clothes Vin.i.290 Vin.ii.128, Vin.ii.174; Vin.iv.159. DN.i.103; SN.v.71; MN.i.215; MN.ii.92; AN.v.347; Snp.679; Pv.i.10# …

gacchati →

pts

…are represented in Pāli as follows.

  1. gacch˚, in
    pres gacchati;
    imper gaccha & gacchāhi;
    pot gacche (Dhp.46, Dhp.224)…

gala →

pts

…special reference to Pāli formations the foll list shows a few sound roots which are further discussed in the Dictionary s. v. Closely…

gantha →

pts

(in BB often misspelt gandha)

  1. a bond, fetter, trammel; always fig. and usually referring to and enumerated as the four bodily ties, or knots (kāya˚, see under kāya): SN.v.59 = Dh …

gaṇikā →

pts

Gaṇikā1

feminine “one who belongs to the crowd,” a harlot, a courtesan (cp. gaṇakī) Vin.i.231 (Ambapālī), Vin.i.268, (do.), Vin.ii.277 (Aḍḍhakāsī); Ud.71; Mil.122; Dhp-a.iii.104; Vv-a.75 …

gedha →

pts

Gedha1

greed. Its connection with craving and worldly attachment is often referred to. Kāmesu g˚ SN.i.73; Snp.152; AN.iii.312 sq. (gedho pañcann’ etaṃ kāmaguṇānaṃ adhivacanaṃ). gedhataṇhā …

giddhin →

pts

adj. from preceding greedy, usually -˚ greedy for, desirous after Pv.iv.10#7 (āhāra˚) f. giddhinī: gāvī vaccha Vin.i.193; SN.iv.181. Cp. also paligedhin.

gijjhati →

pts

to desire, to long for, to wish: pp. gaddha & giddha. Cp. abhi˚, pali˚.; pp. (Pass.) gijjhita Thig.152 (= paccāsiṃsita Thag-a).

Sk. gṛdhyati, to Lat. gradior?

girā →

pts

…still felt as such in older Pāli, therefore mostly poetical), speech, words DN.iii.174; Snp.350, Snp.632, Snp.690 Snp.1132; Dhp.408; Thig.316,…

goṇa →

pts

Goṇa1

an ox, a bullock SN.iv.195 sq.; Ja.i.194 Ja.iv.67; Pv.i.8#2; Pv-a.39, Pv-a.40; Vv-a.63 (for ploughing) DN-a.i.163; Dhp-a.iii.60. -sira wild ox Ja.vi.538(= araññagoṇaka).

The …

guṇṭheti →

pts

to cover to veil, to hide; pp. guṇṭhita in paṃsu˚ covered with dust Pv.ii.3#5 (in Hardy’s conjecture for kuṇṭhita, q.v.) Also in cpd. paliguṇṭhita obstr …

guṇṭhima →

pts

covered over (?), see *pāli*˚.

hanati →

pts

Hanati1 & hanti

  1. to strike, to thresh SN.iv.201; Ja.iv.102
  2. to kill DN.i.123; AN.iv.97 (asinā hanti attānaṃ); Snp.125; Dhp.405; maggaṃ˚; to slay travellers on the road Ja.i.274; Ja.ii …

hasati →

pts

…have become mixed in Pāli (see also hāsa)
■ The usual (differentiated) correspondent of Sk. hṛṣyati is;…

hassati →

pts

…have become mixed in Pāli (see also hāsa)
■ The usual (differentiated) correspondent of Sk. hṛṣyati is;…

hesati →

pts

…pp. hesita.

both heṣ (Vedic) & hreṣ (Epic Sk.); in Pāli confused with hṛṣ (hasati): see…

hāsu →

pts

…does not otherwise occur in Pāli. Thus his expln remains problematic
■ See e.g. MN.iii.25; SN.i.63; SN.v.376; Ja.iv.136; Ja.vi.255,…

iddhi →

pts

There is no single word in English for Iddhi, as the idea is unknown in Europe. The main sense seems to be ʻpotency’.

  1. Pre-Buddhistic; the Iddhi of a layman The four Iddhis of a king are personal …

iha →

pts

indeclinable adv. of place “here” Snp.460.

ī.

Sk. iha; form iha is rare in Pāli, the usual form is idha (q.v.)

indriya →

pts

…adj. only in meaning “belonging to Indra”; nt. strength, might (cp. inda), but in specific pāli sense “belonging to the ruler”, i.e….

iti →

pts

…expld. by the old Pāli C. in a conventional phrase, looking upon it more as a “filling” particle than trying to define its meaning…

ittha →

pts

…ittha here, there, but preserved only in compounds while the Pāli form is ettha

iñjati →

pts

to shake, move, turn about, stir DN.i.56; SN.i.107 SN.i.132, SN.i.181 (aniñjamāna ppr. med. “impassive”); SN.iii.211 Thag.42; Thag.2, Thag.231; Cnd. s.v. (+ calati vedhati); Vism.377; DN-a.i.167
p …

jarā →

pts

…khaṇḍiccaṃ pāliccaṃ valittacatā āyuno saṃhāni indriyānaṃ paripāko“ DN.ii.305 = MN.i.49; SN.ii.2 = Cnd.252 = Dhs.644,…

jhāna →

pts

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 …

jānāti →

pts

to know.

I. Forms

The 2 Vedic roots jān˚ & jñā˚; are represented in Pali by jān˚ & ñā˚ (ña˚)

  1. jān:
    pres jānāti
    pot jāneyya (Snp.781) & jaññā (AN.iv.366 …

jātaka →

pts

…the name of a book in the Pāli canon, containing the verses of 547 such stories. The text of this book has not yet been edited. See Rh….

kadā →

pts

indeclinable interr. adv. when? (very often foll. by fut.) Thag.1091–Thag.1106; Ja.ii.212; Ja.vi.46); Dhp-a.i.33; Pv-a.2
■ combined with-ssu Ja.v.103, Ja.v.215; Ja.vi.49 sq -ci [ …

kamma →

pts

…Grammatically karman has in Pāli almost altogether passed into the -a decl., the consonant forms for instr. & abl. kammā and kammanā gen. dat…

karaka →

pts

Karaka1

  1. Water-pot, drinking-vessel (= pānīya-bhājana Pv-a.251). It is one of the seven requisites of a samaṇa Vin.ii.302. It is called dhammakaraka there and at Vin.ii.118, Vin.ii. …

kasāva →

pts

Kasāya & Kasāva

  1. a kind of paste or gum used in colouring walls Vin.ii.151.
  2. an astringent decoction extracted from plants Vin.i.201, Vin.i.277; Ja.v.198.
  3. (of taste), astringent DhS.629; Mil.65 …

kasāya →

pts

Kasāya & Kasāva

  1. a kind of paste or gum used in colouring walls Vin.ii.151.
  2. an astringent decoction extracted from plants Vin.i.201, Vin.i.277; Ja.v.198.
  3. (of taste), astringent DhS.629; Mil.65 …

katta →

pts

is represented in Pali by kanta2; katta being found only in cpd. pari˚.

pp. of kantati2; cp. Sk. kṛtta

kaṇṇa →

pts

…at Thag-a.211.

  • -pāli = ˚patta Thig.259 (explained by ˚panta).
  • -piṭṭhī the upper part or top of the ear…

kesa →

pts

the hair of the head SN.i.115 (haṭa-haṭa-k˚, with dishevelled hair) AN.i.138 (palita-kesa with grey hair; also at Ja.i.59) Snp.456 (nivutta˚), Snp.608; Thag.169; Ja.i.59, Ja.i.138; Ja.iii.393; Mil. …

khadira →

pts

the tree Acacia catechu, in compounds -aṅgārā (pl. embers of (burnt) acacia-wood Ja.i.232; Pv-a.152 -ghaṭikā a piece of a ˚wood Ja.iv.88; -tthambha a post of a ˚wood Dhp\ …

khaṇati →

pts

  1. to dig (? better “destroy”; cp. Kern

    Toevoegselen

    s. v.), dig out uproot Dhp.247, Dhp.337; Snp.p.101; Ja.ii.295; Ja.iv.371, Ja.iv.373 Sdhp.394. Also khanati & cp.; *[ …

khaṇḍa →

pts

  1. (adj.) broken, usually of teeth; Thig.260 (= Thag-a.211); Mil.342; Vism.51.
  2. (m. nt.) a broken piece, a bit, camma˚ a strip of hide Vin.ii.122; coḷa˚ a bit of cloth Pv-a.70; pilotika˚ bits of r …

khaṇḍicca →

pts

…broken teeth, in phrase kh˚ pālicca, etc., as signs of old age (see above) MN.i.49 = DN.ii.305; AN.iii.196; Dhs.644 = Dhs.736 = Dhs.869;…

khila →

pts

waste or fallow land AN.iii.248; fig. barrenness of mind, mental obstruction. There are five ceto-khilā enumerated in detail at MN.i.101 = AN.iv.460; DN.iii.238 (see under ceto); …

khura →

pts

Khura1

the hoof of an animal Vv.64#10 (of a horse = turagānaṃ khuranipāta, the clattering of a horse’s hoof Vv-a.279), cp. Sk. kṣura, a monkey’s claw Sp. Avs.i.236.

khura-kāse MN.i.44 …

khādati →

pts

to chew, bite, eat devour (= Ger. fressen); to destroy
pres Dhp.240; Ja.i.152 (sassāni); Ja.iii.26; Pv.i.6#3 (puttāni, of a Petī), Pv.i.9#4
■ kaṭṭhaṃ kh˚ to use a toothpick Ja.i.80, Ja.i.282, dant …

kilissati →

pts

to get wet, soiled or stained, to dirty oneself, be impure Iti.76 (of clothes, in the passing away of a deva) Thag.954 (kilisissanti, for kilissanti); Pts.i.130. Kilisseyya Dhp.158 (explained as ninda …

kiñcana →

pts

adjective noun only in neg. sentences: something, anything From the freq. context in the older texts it has assumed the moral implication of something that sticks or adheres to the character of a man, …

koccha →

pts

Koccha1

neuter some kind of seat or settee, made of bark, grass or rushes Vin.ii.149; Vin.iv.40 (where the foll. def. is given: kocchaṃ nāma vāka-mayaṃ vā usīra-mayaṃ vā muñjamayaṃ vā ba …

koriyā →

pts

hen variant reading (ti vā pāḷi) at Thig.381 for turiyā. See also Thag-a.255 (= kuñcakārakukkuṭī).

kujja →

pts

adjective lit. “bent,” as nt kujjaṃ in ajjhena-kujjaṃ Snp.242 crookedness, deceit fraud (cp. Snp-a.286 kūṭa?). Cp. kujati & khujja, see also ava˚, uk˚, nik˚, paṭi˚, pali˚.

Sk. kubja, humpbacked; …

kuñca →

pts

crowing or trumpeting noise (in compounds only)- kāra cackling (of a hen) Thag-a.255; -nāda trumpeting (of an elephant) Ja.iii.114.

kruñc, cp. Sk. krośati, Pa …

kuṇṭhita →

pts

Pv.ii.3#8 and kuṇḍita SN.i.197, both in phrase paṃsu˚, according to Hardy, Pv-a p.302 to be corrected to guṇṭhita covered with dust (see guṇṭheti) The va …

kāma →

pts

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 …

kāsāya →

pts

…[Sk. kāṣāya from the Pāli; kāsāya prob. fr. Sk. śyāma or śyāva brown = Pāli sāma with kā = kad, a kind of, thus meaning a kind of…

kāya →

pts

…found in the whole of the Pāli Canon. But there is also another combination found only in the older texts, viz. kayenā vācāya uda cetasā:…

lagana →

pts

Lagana & Laggana

neuter

  1. adhering Ja.i.46 (g.; Ja.v.281); with gg: Ja.iii.202 (= sanga); Cnd.p.188 (s. v nissita, in sequence l., bandhana, palibodha); Mil.105; Dhp-a.iii.433.
  2. slinging rou …

lagga →

pts

adjective sticking; stuck, attached; obstructed, hindered Cnd.107; Mil.346 (laggaṃ disvā mahiṃ); Dhs-a.127 (alagga-bhāva); Dhp-a.i.361 (˚mānasa) Neg. alagga unobstructed (lit. n …

laggana →

pts

Lagana & Laggana

neuter

  1. adhering Ja.i.46 (g.; Ja.v.281); with gg: Ja.iii.202 (= sanga); Cnd.p.188 (s. v nissita, in sequence l., bandhana, palibodha); Mil.105; Dhp-a.iii.433.
  2. slinging rou …

laggita →

pts

stuck, adhering; obstructed Ja.iv.11. Often in exegetical style in sequence lagga laggita, palibuddha, e.g. Cnd.p.188 (s. v. nissita) cp. No. 107.

pp. of lag(g)ati

lakanaka →

pts

? ship’s anchor (nāvā˚ Mil.377 (variant reading lagganaka), Mil.378.

fr. lag, with k for g, as lakuṭa: laguḷa etc. Would correspond to Sk. *lagnaka, cp. Trenckner Notes 62; Geiger,

Pali Grammar

§ 39#1

laṭṭhi →

pts

…462. The doublet yaṭṭhi also in Pāli

limpati →

pts

to smear, plaster, stain; usually in pass. (or med.) sense “to get soiled, to dirty oneself” Thig.388; Pv-a.215
■ Doubtful in Snp passages, where both limpati & lippati; are found as readings, e. …

loha →

pts

metal, esp. copper, brass or bronze It is often used as a general term & the individual application is not always sharply defined. Its comprehensiveness is evident from the classification of *[loha](/ …

loka →

pts

…To the etym. feeling of the Pāli hearer loka is closely related in quality to ruppati (as in pop. etym. of…

lujjana →

pts

breaking up, crumbling away, dissolution Dhs-a.47 (in etym. of loka = lujjana-palujjan’ aṭṭhena vaṭṭaṃ), Dhs-a.308 (id.); Vism.427 (id.).

fr. lujjati; a word peculiar to Pali dogmatics

lumpati →

pts

to break, harm, injure; to attack plunder; with a strong touch of affection (sympathy or desire) lubh in it [cp. lup: Gr. λύπη; ruj: roga], which is still more evident in Intens. *[loluppa](/def …

lāmaka →

pts

…to be a specific Pāli word. It is essentially a C. word & probably of dialectical origin. Has it anything to do with;…

lāpu →

pts

kind of cucumber Ja.i.336, Ja.i.341. See also lābuka.

  • -latā the cucumber creeper or plant Mil.374.

short for alāpu or ālābu, cp. Geiger,

Pali Grammar

§ 39#6

lāvati →

pts

…Mhvs.30 (lāvayati).

the latter the usual form, as Caus. of lunāti. lāvati is the simple Pāli formation fr. Another Caus. ii. is…

lāveti →

pts

…Mhvs.30 (lāvayati).

the latter the usual form, as Caus. of lunāti. lāvati is the simple Pāli formation fr. Another Caus. ii. is…

lāyati →

pts

…*lāvati, , for which the ordinary form is lunāti (q.v.), y for v as freq. in Pāli: see Geiger,

Pali Grammar

§ 46#2
■…

m →

pts

-M-

euphonic consonant inserted between two vowels to avoid hiatus, as agga-m-agga the best of all Vin.iv.232 aṅga-m-aṅgāni limb by limb Vin.iii.119; Vv.38#2, etc See also SN.iii.254 (yena\ …

maga →

pts

  1. animal for hunting, deer, antelope MN.i.173 (in simile); SN.i.199 (id.); AN.i.70; AN.ii.23; Thag.958 Thag.989; Snp.275, Snp.763, Snp.880; Ja.v.267.
  2. a stupid person Ja.vi.206, Ja.vi.371.

another …

majjati →

pts

Majjati1

is represented in Pali by mujjati, as found esp. in cpds ummujjati & nimujjati.

majj to immerse, submerge, cp. Lat. mergo

Majjati2

to wipe, po …

majjhima →

pts

adjective

  1. middle medium, mediocre, secondary, moderate
    ■ Applied almost exclusively in contrast pairs with terms of more or less, in triplets like “small-medium-big,” or “first-middle-las …

makasa →

pts

mosquito Vin.ii.119; SN.i.52 (a˚ free from m.); AN.ii.117; Snp.20; Ja.i.246; Sdhp.50. See also cpd. ḍaṃsa˚.

  • -kuṭikā mosquito net or curtain Vin.ii.119, Vin.ii.130
  • *-[vījanī] …

mana(s) →

pts

Mano & Mana(s)

neuter

I. Declension

Like all other nouns of old s-stems mano has partly retained the s forms (cp cetah → ceto) & partly follows the a-declension. The …

mano →

pts

Mano & Mana(s)

neuter

I. Declension

Like all other nouns of old s-stems mano has partly retained the s forms (cp cetah → ceto) & partly follows the a-declension. The …

maṃsa →

pts

flesh, meat SN.ii.97 (putta˚); Dhp.152; Ja.iii.184; Pp.55; Vism.258 Vism.357 (in compar.); Dhp-a.i.375 (putta˚); Dhp-a.ii.51 (alla˚ living flesh); Vb-a.58, Vb-a.61 (pilotika-paliveṭhita). Describ …

maṅkuna →

pts

(& -ṇa) an insect, bug or flea Ja.i.10; Ja.iii.423; Vism.109 (where kīla-mankula ought to be read as kīṭamankuna); Dhp-a.ii.12.

cp. late Sk. matkuṇa, see Geiger,

Pali Grammar

§ 6#3

migavā →

pts

hunt, hunting, deer-stalking Pv-a.154 (˚padesa). Usually in devasikaṃ migavaṃ gacchati to go out for a day’s hunting Ja.iv.267; or as pp. ekadivasaṃ migavaṃ gata Vv-a.260; ekāhaṃ m. g. Mhvs.5 …

mihita →

pts

…is the inverted-diaeretic (Pāli) form (smita → *hmita → *mhita → mihita) for the other (Sk.) form smita (q.v.). The Dhtp (328) puts…

milāca →

pts

wild man of the woods, non-Aryan, barbarian Ja.iv.291 (not with C. = janapadā), cp. luddā m. ibid., and milāca-puttā Ja.v.165 (where C. also explains by bhojaputta, i.e. son of a villager).

by-for …

miñja →

pts

miñjā (f.) marrow, pith, kernel Vin.i.25 (in sequence chavi, camma, maṃsa, nahāru, aṭṭhi, miñjā); Vism.235 (id.); Kp iii. (aṭṭhi˚, f. cp. Kp-a.52, nt.); Ja.iv.402 (tāla˚ pith of th …

modara →

pts

In modara at Ja.v.54 (of elephant’s teeth) Kern,

Toevoegselen

s. v. sees a miswriting for medura (full of, beset with), which however does not occur in Pali. The C expln is “samantato …

mucala →

pts

…appears to the speaker of Pāli a cp. noun, viz. king of the mucala(s) (trees). Its (late?) Sk. correspondent is mucilinda, of which the P….

muditā →

pts

soft-heartedness, kindliness sympathy. Often in triad mettā (“active love” Snp-a.128), karuṇā (“preventive love,” ibid.), muditā (“disinter …

muni →

pts

…by Pischel (see under munāti) is “inspired, moved by the spirit.” Pāli explains (popular etym.) are given by…

munāti →

pts

…its meaning “to know” & Pāli munāti. He compares maṇaï with Vedic mūta in kāma-mūta (driven by kāma; mūta = pp. of mū = mīv) and…

māluta →

pts

wind, air, breeze SN.iv.218; Thag.2; Thig.372; Ja.i.167; Ja.iv.222; Ja.v.328 Ja.vi.189; Mil.319; Vism.172 (= vāyu); Vv-a.174, Vv-a.178.

  • -īrita (contracted to māluterita) mov …

māyā →

pts

  1. deceptive appearance fraud, deceit, hypocrisy Snp.245, Snp.328 (˚kata deceit), Snp.469, Snp.537, Snp.786, Snp.941 (: māyā vuccati vañcanikā cariyā Mnd.422); Vb.357, Vb.361, Vb.389; Mil.289; Vism.10 …

mīḷha →

pts

…id.; Ags. mīgan to ur.; in Ohg. mist & Ags. miox the notion refers more to the solid excrement, as in Pāli
■ A related root; *meigh to shed…

nakkhatta →

pts

…Sk. sources are the same in Pāli, with the exception of 2 variations (Assayuja for Aśvinī, Satabhisaja for Śatatāraka). enumerated at Abhp….

nava →

pts

Nava1

(num.) number nine. gen
■ dat. navannaṃ (Snp.p.87) instr
■ abl. navahi (Vv-a.76), loc. navasu.

Meaning and Application: The primitive-Aryan importance of the “mystic” nine i …

ni →

pts

…ni.

A. Forms

  1. Pāli ni˚; combines the two prefixes ni, nis (nir). They are outwardly to be distinguished…

nibbujjhati →

pts

…Vin.iii.180
pp nibbuddha.

ni + yujjhati, yudh. Pāli form difficult to explain: niy˚ = niyy˚ = nivv˚ = nibb˚

nibbāna →

pts

…most beautiful passages in Pāli poetry and prose lavished on this condition of mind, the state of the man made perfect according to the B. faith….

nibbāyati →

pts

…by nirvāyati intrs. to cease to blow; see on etym. & Pāli derivation nibbuta

nippalibodha →

pts

adjective without hindrances, unobstructed Mil.11.

nis + palibodha

o →

pts

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 …

ocaraka FIXME double →

pts

…an adaptation from the Pāli
■ Vin.iii.47 Vin.iii.52; MN.i.129 = MN.i.189 (corā ocarakā, for carā?); SN.i.79 (purisā carā (variant…

ogamana →

pts

…years later than the Pāli one. It would be ridiculous were one to suppose that the P. could be derived from the Sk. On the other hand the…

okkamati FIXME double →

pts

Okkamati

lit. to enter, go down into, fall into. fig. to come on, to develop, to appear in (of a subjective state). It is strange that this important word has been so much misunderstood, for the Engl …

olikhati →

pts

to scrape off, cut off, shave off (hair) AN.iii.295 (veṇiṃ olikhituṃ); Thag.169 (kese olikhissaṃ); Thag.2, Thag.88.

o + likh, cp. Sk. apalikhati

opuñjeti →

pts

or -ati to heap up, make a heap, cover over with (Morris, J.P.T.S. 1887, 153 trsls. “cleanse”) Vin.ii.176 (opuñjati bhattaṃ) Ja.iv.377 (opuñchetvā T., but variant reading opuñjetvā; glos …

osāpeti →

pts

…oseti), but by MSS & Pāli grammarians taken as Caus. of; sṛ: sarāpeti contracted to sāpeti, thus ultimately the same as Sk. sārayati…

ottappa →

pts

…is a wrong adaptation of the Pāli form, taking o˚ for apa˚, viz. apatrapya Mvu.iii.53 and apatrapā ibid. i.463. Müller, P. Gr. & Fausböll…

oḷumpika →

pts

…to a skiff (no ref. in Pāli Canon?); cp. BSk. olumpika Mvu.iii.113 & oḍumpika Mvu.iii.443.

Deriv. unknown, BSk. olumpika and oḍumpika…

paccosakkati →

pts

to withdraw, retreat, go away again DN.i.230; Ja.i.383; Mhvs.25, Mhvs.84.

paṭi + osakkati which is either ava + sakkati (of ṣvaṣk Geiger,

Pali Grammar

§ 28#2 or sṛp Trenckner Notes 60) or a …

pada →

pts

…E. fetch
■ The decl. in Pāli is vocalic a, viz. pada; a trace of the consonant (root decl. is instr. sg. padā (Thag.457; Snp.768), of cons….

padesa →

pts

indication, location, range, district; region, spot, place SN.ii.227, SN.ii.254 SN.v.201; AN.ii.167 (cattāro mahā˚); Dhp.127 (jagati˚), Dhp.303; Ja.ii.3, Ja.ii.158 (himavanta˚); Ja.iii.25 (id.), Ja.ii …

pajahati →

pts

(˚jahāti) to give up, renounce, forsake, abandon, eliminate, let go, get rid of; freq as synonym of jahati (see Nd ii.under jahati with all forms). Its wide range of application with reference to all …

palibhañjana →

pts

breaking up Cnd.576 (sambhañjana + variant reading pari˚). See also sam˚. The spelling phali˚ occurs at Thag-a.288.

pari + bhañjana

palibodha →

pts

obstruction, hindrance, obstacle, impediment, drawback Ja.i.148; Ja.iii.241 (a non-obstruction), Ja.iii.381 (id.); Ne.80; also in var. phrases viz. kāma˚ Cnd.374 (+ kāmapariḷāha); kula˚ cīvara Cnd.6 …

palibuddha →

pts

obstructed, hindered, stopped; being kept back or delayed, tarrying Ja.ii.417 Cnd.107 (paliveṭhita +); Mil.388 (ākāso a˚) Mil.404; Dhp-a.iii.198. Often in phrase lagga laggita p. Cnd.88 Cnd.107, C …

palibuddhati →

pts

…etym. offered by Andersen, Pāli Reader s. v. palibuddha, viz. dissimilation for pari + ruddhati (rudh) is most plausible, other explains like…

palibujjhana →

pts

obstruction Dhp-a.iii.258.

fr. palibujjhati

palibujjhati →

pts

paligedha →

pts

greed, conceit, selfishness AN.i.66; Nd ii.taṇhā ii.(gedha +); Dhs.1059, Dhs.1136.

pali + gedha but acc. to Geiger, P.Gr. § 10 = parigṛddha

paligedhin →

pts

adjective conceited, greedy selfish AN.iii.265.

fr. paligedha, but Geiger, P.Gr. § 10 takes it as *parigṛddhin, cp. giddhin

paligha →

pts

  1. a cross-bar Vin.ii.154; Thig.263 (vaṭṭa˚ = parighadaṇḍa Thag-a.211); Ja.ii.95; Ja.vi.276.
  2. an obstacle, hindrance DN.ii.254 = SN.i.27

■ (adj) (-˚) in two phrases okkhitta˚; with cross-bars …

paligijjhati →

pts

to be greedy Cnd.77 (abhigijjhati +).

pali + gijjhati

paliguṇṭhita →

pts

…Ja.iv.56. Cp. pāliguṇṭhima.

pali + guṇṭhita, variant palikuṇṭhita, as kuṇṭhita &…

palikha →

pts

bar Ja.vi.276 (with palighā as gloss).

a variant of paligha on kh for gh see Geiger,

Pali Grammar

§ 39#2

palikhata →

pts

dug round or out SN.iv.83 (so read with variant reading for T. palikhita).

pp. of palikhaṇati

palikhati →

pts

to scratch, in phrase oṭṭhaṃ p. to bite one’s lip Ja.v.434 = Dhp-a.iv.197.

pa + likh

palikhaṇati →

pts

to dig up, root out SN.i.123; SN.ii.88 (so read for paliṃ˚ & phali˚) = AN.i.204 ger. palikhañña Snp.968 (= uddharitvā Mnd.490); palikhāya SN.i.123 (cp. KS 320); & palikhaṇitvā SN.ii.88; Snp-a.5 …

palikhādati →

pts

to bite all round, to gnaw or peck off MN.i.364 (kukkuro aṭṭhikankalaṃ p.).

pali + khādati

palikujjati →

pts

to bend oneself over, to go crooked MN.i.387.

pali + kujjati

palikuṇṭhita →

pts

covered, enveloped, smeared with Ja.ii.92 (lohita˚).

a var. of paliguṇṭhita, q.v. & cp. Geiger,

Pali Grammar

§ 39#1

palimaṭṭha →

pts

polished Ja.v.4. Cp. parimaṭṭha. See also sam˚.

pp. of pari + mṛj

palipa →

pts

fr. sloppiness, mud, marsh MN.i.45; Thag.89; Thag.2, Thag.291 (= panka Thag-a.224); Ja.iii.241 (read palipo cp. C. = mahākaddamo ibid.) = Ja.iv.480.

pa + lip

palipadaka →

pts

see *pāli*˚.

palipanna →

pts

fallen, got or sunk into (-˚ or loc.) Vin.i.301 (muttakarīse); DN.ii.24 (id.); MN.i.45 (palipa˚) = Cnd.651 B; MN.i.88; Ja.vi.8 Vism.49 (muttakarīse).

for paripanna, pp. of paripajjati

palipatha →

pts

danger, obstacle (or is it “mud, mire” = palipa?) AN.iv.290; Snp.34 = Snp.638 (rāga˚ Snp-a.469) = Dhp.414 (= rāga˚ Dhp-a.iv.194).

for paripatha = ˚pantha (q.v.), the bases path˚ & panth˚ frequently …

palippati →

pts

to be smeared; to stick, to adhere to Pv.iv.1#5 (˚amāna read for palimpamāna)
pp palitta (q.v.).

Med
pass of pa + lip; often spelt palimpati

palisajjati →

pts

to loosen, make loose SN.ii.89 (mūlāni).

pari + sṛj

palissajati →

pts

to embrace DN.ii.266; Ja.v.158 (aor. palissaji = ālingi C), Ja.v.204, Ja.v.215; Ja.vi.325.

pari + svaj

palissuta →

pts

flowing over Ja.vi.328.

pp. of pari + sru

palita →

pts

…Pv-a.153)
■ Der. pālicca.

cp. Vedic palita; Gr. πελιτνός, πελιός black-grey; Lith. pilkas grey;…

palitta →

pts

smeared Thig.467 (= upalitta Thag-a.284).

pp. of palippati

paliveṭhana →

pts

adj. nt. wrapping, surrounding, encircling, encumbrance Ja.iv.436; Pp.34; Vism.353 (˚camma); Dhs-a.366.

fr. pari + veṣṭ.

paliveṭheti →

pts

to wrap up, cover, entwine, encircle MN.i.134; Ja.i.192; Ja.ii.95; Dhp-a.i.269; Dhs-a.366
pass paliveṭhīyati Mil.74
pp paliveṭhita (q.v.). See also sam˚.

pari + veṣṭ.

paliveṭhita →

pts

wrapped round, entwined, encircled, fettered Cnd.107 (˚veṭṭh˚, combined with laggita & palibuddha); Ja.iv.436; Ja.vi.89. Cp. sam˚.

pp. of paliveṭheti

pallatthita →

pts

perverse Ja.v.79.

doubtful, perhaps we should read paliyattha, see Kern,

Toevoegselen

s. v.

pallaṅka →

pts

  1. sitting cross-legged, in instr.; pallaṅkena upon the hams SN.i.124, SN.i.144; and in phrase pallaṅkaṃ ābhujati “to bend (the legs) in crosswise” DN.i.71; MN.i.56; AN.iii.320; Ja.i.17, Ja.i.71; …

palokin →

pts

adjective destined for decay or destruction SN.iv.205 = Snp.739 (acc. palokinaṃ = jarā-maraṇehi palujjana-dhamma Snp-a.506); Thig.101 (acc. pl palokine, see Geiger,

Pali Grammar

§ 95#2).

fr. paloka

palāpa →

pts

Palāpa1

chaff of corn, pollard AN.iv.169 (yava˚); Ja.i.467, Ja.i.468; Ja.iv.34; Snp-a.165 (in exegesis of palāpa2 variant reading BB palāsa), Snp-a.312 (id.); Ja.iv.34, Ja.iv. …

palāyati →

pts

to run (away) Vin.iii.145 (ubbijjati uttasati p.); AN.ii.33 (yena vā tena vā palayanti); Snp.120; Ja.ii.10; Dhp-a.i.193; Pv-a.253 Pv-a.284 (= dhāvati)
ppr palāyanto SN.i.209 = Thig.248 = Pv.ii. …

panta →

pts

adjective distant, remote, solitary, secluded; only in phrase pantaṃ senāsanaṃ (sayanāsanaṃ) or pantāni senāsanāni “solitary bed & chair” MN.i.17, MN.i.30; AN.i.60; AN.ii.137 AN.iii.103; AN.v.10, AN.v …

para →

pts

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 …

pari →

pts

…has entirely disappeared in Pāli (but see below 1a). As adv. “all round” it is only found at Ja.vi.198 (parī metri causa; combined with…

parigha →

pts

cross-bar Thag-a.211 (˚daṇḍa).

Vedic parigha, of which the usual P. representative is paligha (q.v.)

parikhā →

pts

ditch, trench, moat Vin.ii.154; DN.i.105 (ukkiṇṇa-parikha adj with trenches dug deep, combined with okkhittapaligha explained by khāta-parikha ṭhapita-paligha at DN-a.i.274) MN.i.139 (sankiṇṇa˚ ad …

parikujati →

pts

at Sdhp.145, meaning? Cp. palikujjati.

parimaṭṭha →

pts

rubbed, stroked, polished, in su˚ well polished SN.ii.102. See also palimaṭṭha.

pp. of parimajjati

paripanna →

pts

see palipanna.

paripantha →

pts

  1. “way round,” edge, border; paripanthe in ambush (near a road) MN.i.87; Ja.iii.65.
  2. obstacle, hindrance, danger. It refers esp. to danger arising out of mishaps to or bad conditions of roads in th …

paripāleti →

pts

to watch, guard (carefully) Pv-a.130 (= rakkhati)
pp paripālita (q.v.)
pass -pāliyati Ne.105 (= rakkhitaṃ).

pari + pāleti

paripālita →

pts

guarded Vism.74.

pp. of paripāleti

parissaya →

pts

…cp. Weber, Ind. Streifen iii.395 and Andersen, Pāli Reader ii.167, 168

parissañjati →

pts

(˚ssajati?) to embrace, enfold, Ja.i.466; Ja.vi.156 (˚itvā, variant reading ˚ssajitvā & palisajjitvā).

pari + svaj

parisā →

pts

…fr. pari + sad
■ In Pāli the cons. stem has passed into a vocalic ā-stem with the only preservation of cons. loc. sg. parisati

parivattaka →

pts

circle (lit. turning round) Ja.i.101; cp. parivattika in phrase paligha˚ (q.v.).

fr. parivatta

pariḷāha →

pts

burning, fever; fig fever of passion, consumption, distress, pain DN.iii.238 (avigata˚), DN.iii.289 (˚nānatta); MN.i.101 (kāme); SN.ii.143 sq (˚nānatta), SN.ii.151 (kāma˚; vyāpāda˚, vihiṃsā˚); SN.iii. …

pasibbaka →

pts

sack, Vin.iii.17; Ja.i.112, Ja.i.351; Ja.ii.88, Ja.ii.154; Ja.iii.10, Ja.iii.116 Ja.iii.343 (camma˚ leather bag); Ja.iv.52, Ja.iv.361; Ja.v.46 (pūpa˚) Ja.v.483; Ja.vi.432 (spelling pasippaka); DN-a.i …

passati →

pts

  1. to see-Pres. passati Vin.i.322; SN.i.69 SN.i.132, SN.i.198; SN.ii.29; Snp.313, Snp.647, Snp.953, Snp.1063, Snp.1142 (cp. Cnd.428); Pv.i.2#3; Mil.218; Pv-a.11, Pv-a.102; 1<su …

pasuta →

pts

attached to (acc. or loc.), intent upon (-˚), pursuing, doing DN.i.135 (kamma˚); Snp.57 (see Cnd.427), Snp.709, Snp.774, Snp.940, Dhp.166, Dhp.181; Vism.135 (doing a hundred & one things: aneka-kicc …

pavisati →

pts

to go in, to enter (acc.) Snp.668, Snp.673; Dhp-a.ii.72 (opp. nikkhamati); Pv-a.4, Pv-a.12, Pv-a.47 (nagaraṃ). Pot. -vise Snp.387 imper. pavisa MN.i.383; SN.i.213 fut. pavisissati Vin.i.87; …

pañca →

pts

…many other high numerals in Pāli literature, as mentioned under respective units (4, 6, 8 e.g. in 14, 16, 18, etc.). Psychologically 500 is to be…

paññāyati →

pts

…Dhp-a.ii.75; Pv-a.83 (pālito eva), Pv-a.166 (dissati +); ppr. paññāyamāna Dhp-a.i.29; Pv-a.96 (=…

paṇḍu →

pts

adjective pale-red or yellow, reddish, light yellow, grey; only at Thig.79 (kisā paṇḍu vivaṇṇā), where paṇḍu represents the usual up-paṇḍ’-uppaṇḍuka-jātā: “thin, pale and colourless” (see Thag- …

paṭhavī →

pts

…pṛthivī, doublets in Pāli pathavī, puthavī, puthuvī, puṭhuvī, see Geiger, P.Gr. §§ 124, 17n. To ad….

paṭibhāna →

pts

understanding, illumination, intelligence, readiness or confidence of speech, promptitude, wit (see on term Vin. Texts iii.13, 172; Pts. of Controversy, 378 f.) DN.i.16, DN.i.21, DN.i.23; SN.i.187 …

peyyāla →

pts

…“because of the successive Pāli text”)
■ Very freq. in abridged form, where we would say “etc.,” to indicate that a passage has be to…

phala →

pts

Phala1

neuter to burst, thus lit. “bursting,” i.e. ripe fruit; see phalati]

  1. (lit. fruit (of trees etc.) Vv.84#14 (dumā nicca-phal’ ûpapannā not to phalu, as Kern, …

phalika →

pts

Phalika1

a fruit vendor Mil.331.

fr. phala

Phalika2 & ˚kā

feminine crystal quartz Vin.ii.112; Ja.vi.119 (˚kā = phaḷika-bhittiyo C.); Vv.35#1 (= phalika-maṇi-mayā bhittiyo …

phalina →

pts

adjective at Ja.v.92 is of doubtful meaning. It cannot very well mean “bearing fruit”, since it is used as epithet of a bird (˚sakuṇī). The Cy expln is sakuṇa-potakānaṃ phalinattā (being a …

phalita →

pts

Phalita1

adjective grey-haired Pv-a.153.

sporadic spelling for palita

Phalita2

broken, only in phrase hadayaṃ phalitaṃ his heart broke Dhp-a.i.173; * …

phusati →

pts

Phusati1

  1. (lit.) to touch Vism.463 (phusatī ti phasso) DN-a.i.61 (aor. phusī = metri causa for phusi); Mil.157 (grd. aphusa not to be touched).
  2. (fig.) pharati*, as …

phālibhaddaka →

pts

is spurious spelling for pāli˚ at Ja.ii.162 (variant reading pātali-bhaddaka). Cp. Prk. phālihadda (= pāribhadra Pischel, Gr. § 208).

phāṭeti →

pts

*Phāṭeti

is conjectured reading for pāteti in phrase kaṭṭhaṃ pāteti MN.i.21, and in adhipāteti to split (see adhipāta & vipāta). T …

pippala →

pts

pepper Vin.i.201, cp. Vin. Texts ii.46.

for the usual P. pipphalī, Sk. pippalī

pipphalī →

pts

long pepper SN.v.79; Ja.iii.85; Vv.43#6; Dhp-a.i.258 (˚guhā npl.); Dhp-a.iv.155.

with aspirate ph for p, as in Sk. pippalī, see Geiger, P.Gr. § 62. See also pippala. Etym. loan words are Gr. πέπε …

piṇḍa →

pts

  1. a lump, ball, thick (& round mass SN.i.206 (aṭṭhīyaka˚); Pv.iii.5#5 (nonīta˚); Vv-a.62 (kummāsa˚), Vv-a.65; Sdhp.529 (ayo˚).
  2. a lump of food esp. of alms, alms given as food SN.i.76; Snp.217, S …

piṭaka →

pts

…the 3 main divisions of the Pāli Canon “the three baskets (basket as container of tradition Winternitz Ind. Lit. ii.8; cp. peḷā 2) of oral…

pokkharatā →

pts

splendidness “flower-likeness,” only in cpd. vaṇṇa-pokkharatā beauty of complexion DN.i.114; Vin.i.268; SN.i.95 SN.ii.279; AN.i.38, AN.i.86; AN.ii.203; AN.iii.90; DN-a.i.282; Kp-a.179; Vv-a.14; …

posa →

pts

Posa1

= purisa, man (poetical form, only found in verse) Vin.i.230; SN.i.13, SN.i.205; Ja.iii.309; AN.iv.266; Snp.110, Snp.662; Dhp.104, Dhp.125 (cp Dhp-a.iii.34); Ja.v.306; Ja.vi.246, Ja …

pubba →

pts

Pubba1

pus, matter, corruption MN.i.57; MN.iii.90; SN.i.150; SN.ii.157; AN.i.34; Ja.ii.18; Mil.382; Pv-a.80
■ In detail discussed (as one of the 32 ākāras) at Vism.261, Vism.360; Kp- …

puman →

pts

(Pumā) a male, a man, nom sg. pumo D n.273; Cp.ii.6#2; instr. pumunā Ja.vi.550. nom. pl pumā DN.iii.85 (itthi-pumā men & women; variant reading K ˚purisā); Ja.iii.459; acc. sg. pumaṃ Ja.v.154 (gata, …

puna →

pts

indeclinable again. There are several forms of this adv., but puna has to be considered as the orig. Pali form. The form puno is doubtful; if authentic, a Sanskritisation; only fou …

purindada →

pts

“townbreaker,” a name of Sakka (Indra) DN.ii.260; SN.i.230; Vv.37#4, Vv.62#2; Pv-a.247.

distorted fr. Vedic puraṃ-dara, pura + dṛ; to break, see darī, thus “breaker of fortress …

puthujjana →

pts

an ordinary, average person (4 classes of ordinary people are discussed at Cpd. 49, 50) a common worldling, a man of the people, an ordinary man MN.i.1, MN.i.7, MN.i.135, MN.i.239, MN.i.323; MN.iii. …

putta →

pts

  1. a son SN.i.210; Snp.35, Snp.38, Snp.60, Snp.557, Snp.858; Dhp.62, Dhp.84 Dhp.228, Dhp.345; Ja.iv.309; Vism.645 (simile of 3 sons); Pv-a.25, Pv-a.63, Pv-a.73 sq.; DN-a.i.157 (dāsaka˚). Four kind …

puṃs →

pts

…no forms are found in Pāli proper. The base; puṃ occurs in pukusa (?), puggala (?), pungava pullinga;…

puṭa →

pts

…putta represents a secondary Pālisation of Sk. ˚putra which again represents P (or Non-Aryan) puṭa (see Pischel, Prk. Gr. § 238 292)….

pāceti →

pts

Pāceti1

to cause to boil, fig. to cause to torment DN.i.52 (ppr. pācayato, gen., also pācento) Cp. vi˚.

Caus. of pacati

Pāceti2

to drive, urge on Dhp.135 (āyuṃ p. gopālako vi …

pākata →

pts

adjective

  1. common, vulgar, uncontrolled in phrase pākat-indriya of uncontrolled mind SN.i.61 (= saṃvarâbhāvena gihikāle viya vivaṭa-indriya K.S. 320), SN.i.204; SN.iii.93; SN.v.269; AN.i.70, …

pālanā →

pts

guarding, keeping Ja.i.158; Dhs.19, Dhs.82,295. Pali (Pali)

fr. pāleti cp. Epic Sanskrit pālana nt.

pāleti →

pts

…pp. pālita. See also abhi˚ & pari˚. A contracted (poetical) form is found as; pallate at Ja.v.242,…

pālibhaddaka →

pts

the tree Butea frondosa Ja.iv.205; Cnd.680Aii Vism.256 (˚aṭṭhi); Vb-a.239 (id.); Kp-a.46, Kp-a.53; Dhs-a.14; Dhp-a.i.383. As phālibhaddaka (-vana) at Ja.ii. …

pālicca →

pts

greyness of hair MN.i.49; SN.ii.2, SN.ii.42; AN.iii.196; Dhs.644, Dhs.736, Dhs.869; Vb-a.98.

fr. palita

pāliguṇṭhima →

pts

adjective covered round (of sandals Vin.i.186 (Vin. Texts ii.15: laced boots); variant reading BB ˚gunṭhika.

doubtful, fr pali + guṇṭh, see paliguṇṭhita; hapax legomenon

pātur →

pts

(-˚) (˚pātu) indeclinable visible open, manifest; only in compound with kṛ; and bhū, and with the rule that pātu˚ appears before cons., whereas pātur˚ stands before vowels.

  1. w …

pāvacana →

pts

word, esp. the word of the Buddha DN.i.88; SN.ii.259; Thag.587; Thag.2, Thag.457.

pa + vacana, with lengthening of first a (see Geiger,

Pali Grammar

§ 33#1)

pāṇin →

pts

adjective noun having life, a living being SN.i.210, SN.i.226, Snp.220 (acc. pl. pāṇine, cp. Geiger,

Pali Grammar

§ 95#2), Snp.587 (id.), Snp.201, Snp.575; Pv-a.287; Dhp-a.ii.19.

fr. pāṇa

pāṭala →

pts

adjective pale red, pink Ja.iv.114.

cp. Class. Sk. pāṭala, to same root as palita & pāṇḍu: see Walde, Lat. Wtb. under palleo & cp paṇḍu

pīṇeti →

pts

…The meaning in Pāli however has been partly confused with , pinvati (see pīna), as suggested by Bdhgh in…

pūpa →

pts

special kind of cake, baked or boiled in a bag Ja.v.46 (˚pasibbaka cake-bag); Dhp-a.i.319 (jāla˚ net-cake variant reading pūva). See also pūva.

cp. Epic Sk. pūpa; “a rich cake of …

r →

pts

-R-

the letter (or sound) r, used as euphonic consonant to avoid hiatus. The sandhi-r-originates from the final r of nouns in ˚ir & ˚ur of the Vedic period. In Pali it is felt as euphonic conso …

rahas →

pts

…= araha*.

Vedic rahas. The Pāli word is restricted to the forms raho and rahā˚; (= *rahaḥ); a loc. rahasi is mentioned…

raho →

pts

…= araha*.

Vedic rahas. The Pāli word is restricted to the forms raho and rahā˚; (= *rahaḥ); a loc. rahasi is mentioned…

randhati →

pts

randh, differentiated in Pāli to 2 meanings & 2 verbs according to Dhtm: “hiṃsāyaṃ” (148), and “pāke” (827). In the former sense…

rasa →

pts

…(not otherwise found in Pāli!), and explains the BSk. ras’âgrin as a distortion of the P. form.

rasmi →

pts

Raṃsi & Rasmi

a rein, a ray.

  1. In meaning “rein only as rasmi, viz. at MN.i.124; Dhp.222; Ja.i.57; Ja.iv.149
  2. In meaning “ray” both raṃsi and *[rasmi](/defin …

rassa →

pts

adjective short (opp dīgha) DN.i.193 (dīghā vā r. vā majjhimā ti vā), DN.i.223 (in contrast with d.); Snp.633; Dhp.409; Ja.i.356; Dhs.617 Vism.272 (def.); Dhp-a.iv.184
■ Cp. ati˚.

  • *-[ādesa](/ …

ratana →

pts

Ratana1

neuter

  1. (lit.) a gem, jewel Vv-a.321 (not = ratana2, as Hardy in Index) Pv-a.53 (nānāvidhāni)
    ■ The 7 ratanas are enumerated under veḷuriya (Mil.267). They are …

ratta →

pts

Ratta1

  1. dyed, coloured MN.i.36 (dūratta-vaṇṇa difficult to dye or badly dyed MN-a.167 reads duratta and explains as durañjita-vaṇṇa opp. suratta ibid.); Snp.287 (nānā-rattehi vatthe …

ratti →

pts

night DN.i.47 (dosinā). gen. sg. ratyā (for *rattiyā) Thag.517; Snp.710 (vivasane = ratti-samatikkame Snp-a.496); Ja.vi.491. abl. sg. rattiyā in phrases abhikkantāya r. at the waning of night D …

rava →

pts

…with v. for y as freq. in Pāli, Dhtm.352: ru “gate”

Rava2

loud sound, roar, shout, cry; any noise uttered by animals Ja.ii.110;…

raṃsi →

pts

Raṃsi & Rasmi

a rein, a ray.

  1. In meaning “rein only as rasmi, viz. at MN.i.124; Dhp.222; Ja.i.57; Ja.iv.149
  2. In meaning “ray” both raṃsi and *[rasmi](/defin …

raṅga →

pts

Raṅga1

colour, paint Mil.11 (˚palibodha)

  • -kāra dyer Mil.331.
  • -jāta colour MN.i.385; Vb-a.331.
  • -ratta dyed crimson Vin.i.18 …

rekhā →

pts

line, streak Abhp.539. See lekhā.

fr. rikh, for which the Pāli form is likh, cp. Sk. rekhā, Lat. rīma, Ohg. rīga row

rohati →

pts

…root, restricted to the Pāli, is seen in rūhati2 (with pp. rūḷha) and is equal to rundh (rudh rumbh) to break. The Caus. of…

rudda →

pts

…74–77) The usual Pāli form is ludda. At Dhtp.473 & Dhtm.135 a root; ruṭh (or luṭh) is given in meaning…

rujati →

pts

…loch etc
■ A specific Pāli l-form is lujjati. A der. fr. ruj is roga illness
■ The Dhtp (469) defines ruj by “bhanga” i.e….

rundhati →

pts

rubh in Prk. as well as in Pāli: see Pischel, § 266, 507, and P. rumbhati.

rundh or rudh, both roots in Vedic Sk …

ruppati →

pts

…to Pāli exegesis with its fondness of allegorical (“orthodox”) interpretation, is the etym. base of…

rājan →

pts

Rājā (Rājan)

king, a ruling potentate. The defn at Vin.iii.222 is “yo koci rajjaṃ kāreti.” The fanciful etym. at DN.iii.93 Vism.419 is “dhammena pare rañjetī ti rājā” i.e. he gladdens othe …

rājā →

pts

Rājā (Rājan)

king, a ruling potentate. The defn at Vin.iii.222 is “yo koci rajjaṃ kāreti.” The fanciful etym. at DN.iii.93 Vism.419 is “dhammena pare rañjetī ti rājā” i.e. he gladdens othe …

rūḷhi →

pts

…is the one usually found in Pāli, esp. in Abhidhamma and Commentary literature; e.g. rūḷhiyaṃ by tradition, usually, commonly, Vb-a.1 (as…

sa →

pts

…124 times. In later Pāli sa is almost extinct The final o of so is often changed into v

saddhamma →

pts

the true dhamma, the best religion, good practice, the “doctrine of the good” (so Geiger, Pali Dhamma pp. 53, 54, q.v. for detailed discussion of the term) MN.i.46; SN.v.172 sq.; AN.i.69; AN.iii.7 …

sajjulasa →

pts

resin Vin.i.202.

cp. Sk. sarjarasa; see Geiger,

Pali Grammar

§ 19#2

sakkāya →

pts

the body in being, the existing body or group (= -nikāya q.v.); as a t.t. in P. psychology almost equal to individuality; identified with the five khandhas MN.i.299; SN.iii.159; …

sambhagga →

pts

broken SN.i.123; MN.i.237. Cp. sampali˚.

saṃ + bhagga

sambhañjati →

pts

to split, break Ja.v.32; Caus. sambhañjeti to break MN.i.237; SN.i.123; pass. aor. samabhajjisaṃ Ja.v.70
pp sambhagga
■ Cp. sampali˚.

saṃ + bhañjati

sampalibhagga →

pts

broken up SN.i.123.

pp. of next

sampalibhañjati →

pts

to break, to crack MN.i.234; SN.i.123; pp. sampalibhagga.

saṃ + pari + bhañj

sampalibodha →

pts

hindrance, obstruction Ne.79.

saṃ + palibodha

sampalimaṭṭha →

pts

touched, handled, blotted out, destroyed SN.iv.168 sq. = Ja.iii.532 = Vism.36.

saṃ + palimaṭṭha

sampaliveṭheti →

pts

to wrap up, envelop; ˚eyya AN.iv.131 (kāyaṃ).

saṃ + paliveṭheti

sampaliveṭhita →

pts

adjective wrapped up, enveloped MN.i.281.

saṃ + paliveṭhita

sassara →

pts

imitative of the sound sarasara; chinnasassara giving out a broken or irregular sound of sarasara. MN.i.128 ‣See *> Journal of the Pali Text Society

,* 1889, p. 209.

sañcopati →

pts

…as α ̔́πας in Mhbh. We should expect copeti in Pāli, fr. cup to stir

saṃ →

pts

…most frequent (16’) of all Pāli prefixes. Its primary meaning is “together” (cp. Lat. con˚); hence arises that of a closer connection or a…

saṅghādisesa →

pts

…but atisesa does not occur in Pāli

saṅgīti →

pts

…time of the redaction of the Pāli Canon, or of (one of them, probably the last) the Council Tikp.241; Snp-a.580; Vv-a.270 *…

saṇhaka →

pts

…tūṇīra; Sk. śaṇa = śāṇaka. According to Andersen Pāli Glossary “betelnut” (= saṇha).

siddha →

pts

Siddha1

boiled, cooked Ja.ii.435 (= pakka); Ja.v.201 (˚bhojana); Mil.272; Snp-a.27 (˚bhatta = pakk’odana of Snp.18).

a specific Pali formation fr. sijjati (svid) in meaning “to cook,” …

simbali →

pts

…Ja.i.202; Ja.ii.162 (s. ˚-pālibhaddaka-vana); Ja.iv.277. sattisimbalivana the sword forest, in purgatory Ja.v.453.

cp. Vedic śimbala flower…

soḷasa →

pts

cardinal number sixteen DN.i.128; Snp.1006; Ja.i.78 (lekhā); Ja.ii.87; Ja.iii.342 (atappiya-vatthūni); Ja.v.175, Ja.vi.37; Mil.11 (palibodhā); Dhp-a.i.129 (˚salākā); Dhp-a.iv.208 (˚karīsa-matta). …

suṇa →

pts

“dog,” preferable spelling for suna, cp. Geiger,

Pali Grammar

§ 93#1.

sāmaṃ →

pts

…etymology, see Andersen Pāli Gloss., p. 268 (contracted from sayamaṃ, Trenckner), cp. Michelson Indog. Forsch., vol. xxiii, p. 235, n. 3…

sāsana →

pts

…and with ref. to the Pāli Tipiṭaka Vb-a.432 sq., where 3 periods of the development of the Buddhist doctrine are discussed, viz….

sūla →

pts

  1. a sharp-pointed instrument, a stake Thig.488; SN.v.411; Pv.iv.1#6; Vism.489 (in compar.), Vism.646 (khadira˚, ayo˚, suvaṇṇa˚); Thag-a.288; Ja.i.143, Ja.i.326; sūle uttāseti

ti →

pts

…expld. by the old Pāli C. in a conventional phrase, looking upon it more as a “filling” particle than trying to define its meaning…

toya →

pts

water (poetical for udaka) only in simile: puṇḍarīkaṃ (or padumaṃ) toyena na upalippati AN.ii.39 = Snp.547; Snp.71 = Snp.213; Thag.700 Cnd.287 (t. vuccati udakaṃ)
■ Bdhd 67, 93.

Vedic toya from ** …

ubbilla →

pts

…reconstruction from the Pāli, after the equation of Sk dvādaśa → dial. P. bārasa, whereas the original Sk. dv is in regular P….

ubho →

pts

…remnant of a dual form in Pāli; cp. Gr. α ̓́μφω both, Lat. ambo, Lith. abū, Goth. bai Ohg. beide = E. both. To prep. adv. *amb, *ambi;…

ud →

pts

…as prevailing in Pāli

I. Original meaning

“out in an upward direction”, out of, forth; like ummujjati to rise up out of…

udapāna →

pts

…for) drinking water“; cp. opāna, which in the incorrect opinion of Pāli Commentators represents a contracted udapāna

ukkhitta →

pts

taken up, lifted up, t.t. of the canon law “suspended” Vin.iv.218; Ja.iii.487.

  • -āsika with drawn sword MN.i.377; SN.iv.173; Ja.i.393; Dhs-a.329; Vism.230 (vadhaka), Vism.479.
  • *-[paligha](/de …

ulloka →

pts

…but better by Andersen Pāli Reader as “as soon as it is seen”; at Vin.ii.151 the translators give “a cloth placed under the bedstead…

unna →

pts

…better more in keeping with Pāli word-formation as well as with meaning & interpretation to explain the word as ud na, taking ˚na as abs….

upadhāraṇā →

pts

[fr. upa + dhṛ;) “receptacle”, milk-pail DN.ii.192; AN.iv.393; Ja.vi.503. See kaṃs˚. Kern,

Toevoegselen

i. 142 proposes corruption fr. kaṃs’ûpadohana, which latter however does not occur in Pa …

upalikkhati →

pts

to scratch, scrape, wound AN.iii.94 sq. (= vijjhati C.).

upa + likh

upalimpati →

pts

to smear, defile DN.ii.18; Vin.iii.312; Ja.i.178; Ja.iv.435; Mil.154
pass upalippati, pp upalitta (q.v.).

upa + lip

upalippati →

pts

to be defiled; to stick to, hang on to Snp.547, Snp.812; Ja.iii.66 (= allīyati C.); Mil.250, Mil.337.

Pass. of upalimpati

upalitta →

pts

smeared with (-˚), stained, tainted Thig.467 (cp. Thag-a.284; T. reads apalitta) Pp.56. Usually neg. an˚; free from taint, undefiled MN.i.319, MN.i.386; Mil.318; metri causa *[anūpalitta](/define/ …

uppalin →

pts

adjective noun having lotuses rich in l., only in f. uppalinī a lotus-pond DN.i.75; DN.ii.38; SN.i.138; AN.iii.26; Vv.32#2; DN-a.i.219.

fr. uppala

ussādita →

pts

…& ussāreti. There exists in Pāli as well as in BSk. a confusion of different roots to express the notion of raising, rising, lifting unfolding,…

uttiṭṭha →

pts

…C.); Mil.213, Mil.214.

= ucchiṭṭha? Cp. ucchepaka. By Pāli Cys. referred to uṭṭhahati.

uḍḍeti →

pts

…change l → ḍ is a freq. Pāli phenomenon. Another Caus. ii. of the same root (ḍī?) is uṭṭepeti

Uḍḍeti2

  1. to bind up,…

vadati →

pts

… ■ A specific Pāli formation is a Caus. vādiyati in act. and med. sense (all forms only in Gāthā style) e.g. indic….

valañjeti →

pts

  1. to trace, track travel (a road); practise, achieve, resort to Mil.359; Vv-a.58.
  2. to use, use up, spend Ja.i.102; Ja.iii.342 Ja.vi.369, Ja.vi.382, Ja.vi.521
    ppr Pass. (a-)valañjiyamāna (n …

valin →

pts

adjective having wrinkles MN.i.88 (acc. palitakesiṃ vilūnaṃ khalita-siraṃ valinaṃ) = iii.180 (palitakesaṃ vilūnaṃ khalitaṃ-siraṃ valīnaṃ etc.) See valita for this passage
■ In …

valita →

pts

…(phalitakesa +); with abstr. valittacatā the fact of having a wrinkled skin MN.i.49 (pālicca + ; cp. MN-a.215); AN.ii.196…

vana →

pts

… ■ The word to the Pāli Buddhist forms a connection between vana and nibbāna, which is felt as a…

vasabha →

pts

…(id.).

the Sanskritic-Pāli form (*vṛṣabha) of the proper Pāli usabha (q.v. for etym.). Only in later (Com. style…

vaya →

pts

…vi + i; occasionally as vyaya in Pāli as well

vayaṃ →

pts

…represented in Pāli by mayaṃ (q.v.). The form vayaṃ only in grammarians, mentioned also by Müller, P.Gr.

vaḍḍhi →

pts

…vṛddhi refreshment etc., which is differentiated in Pāli into vuddhi & vaḍḍhi

vaṅka →

pts

…Ohg. wanga cheek and others
■ The Dhtp.5 gives “koṭilya” as meaning of vaṅk. Another Pāli form is vakka (q.v.)….

vaṇibbaka →

pts

wayfarer, beggar, pauper Snp.100 (ṇ); Ja.iv.403, Ja.iv.406 (n); Ja.v.172 (= bhojaputta C.; n), Ja.vi.232 (n); DN-a.i.298 (ṇ); Pv-a.78 (n), Pv-a.112 (n); Vv-a.5 (n). Often combined with similar ter …

vaṇṇanā →

pts

  1. explanation, commentary, exposition Kp-a.11, Kp-a.145, Kp-a.227; Snp-a.65 (pada˚); Pv-a.2- pāḷi˚; explanation of the text (as regards meaning of words), purely textual analysis (opp. vinicc …

vaṭaṃsa →

pts

kind of head ornament perhaps ear-ring or garland worn round the forehead Mhvs.11, Mhvs.28 (C. explains as “kaṇṇapilandhanaṃ vaṭaṃsakan ti vuttaṃ hoti”). Usually as vaṭaṃsaka V …

vaṭṭa →

pts

…become differentiated in Pāli vaṭṭa is not found in meaning of “happened.” All three Pāli meanings are specialized, just as the pres…

vaṭṭati →

pts

…to vaṭṭati only in later Pāli & sometimes doubtful. It is found also in the Caus.; vaṭṭeti The defn of…

vedeti →

pts

…(= *vedy˚) a specific Pāli formation after the manner of the 4th (y) class of Sk. verbs, used only in meaning of…

vejja →

pts

…Dhp-a.iii.351; Dhp-a.iv.172.

fr. vid, *Sk. vaidya, but to Pāli etym. feeling fr. vijjā

veḷu →

pts

bamboo AN.ii.73; Vin.iv.35; Ja.iv.382 (daṇḍa˚); Ja.v.71; Vism.1, Vism.17; Snp-a.76 (= vaṃsa); Vb-a.334.

  • -agga (veḷagga) the top of a bamboo Vin.ii.110
  • *-[gumba](/define/gumb …

veṭhana →

pts

  1. surrounding, enveloping Ja.vi.489.
  2. a turban head-dress DN.i.126; AN.i.145; AN.iii.380 (sīsa˚); Ja.v.187; Dhp-a.iv.213; Pv-a.161.
  3. wrapping, clothing, wrap shawl Ja.vi.12

■ Cp. *[pali˚](/de …

veṭheti →

pts

to twist round, envelope, wrap, surround Ja.i.5, Ja.i.422; Mil.282
pass veṭhiyati: see *vi
pp veṭhita
■ Cp. pali˚.

Vedic veṣṭate, *viṣṭ …

vibhaṅga →

pts

… ■ Vibhanga is the title of the second book of the Abhidhamma Piṭaka (see Pāli Name Dictionary). Cp. Sutta-vibhanga.

vi + bhanga, of…

vicchaḍḍeti →

pts

…vicchaḍḍana throwing out).

vi +…

vidatthi →

pts

span (of 12 angulas or finger-breadths) Vin.iii.149 (dīghaso dvādasa vidatthiyo sugata-vidatthiyā); Vin.iv.279; Ja.i.337; Ja.iii.318; Mil.85; Vism.65, Vism.124, Vism.171, Vism.175, Vism.408; Dhp-a. …

viheseti →

pts

to harass, vex, annoy, insult SN.iv.63; SN.v.346; AN.iii.194; Vin.iv.36 sq.; Ud.44; Snp.277; Pv.iv.1#47 (vihesaṃ, aor.); Pv.iv.1#49 (vihesayi, aor.).

vi + hiṃs, or Denom. fr. vihesā, cp. Geiger,

vijitāvin →

pts

adjective victorious DN.i.88 (caturanta +); DN.ii.146; SN.iii.83; Snp.552, Snp.646; DN-a.i.249; Dhp-a.iv.232; Snp-a.162.

vijita + āvin; see Geiger,

Pali Grammar

§ 198#3

vimāna →

pts

…292–300
■ In the Pāli Com. we find Snp-a.187, Snp-a.188 (canda-vimānaṃ bhinditvā = breaking up the moon’s palace, i.e. the…

vindati →

pts

…“to find” are both in Pāli, but only in sporadic forms, some of which are archaic and therefore only found in poetry. Of vid are more…

vinicchaya →

pts

  1. discrimination, distinction, thought, (firm) opinion thorough knowledge of (-˚) AN.iii.354 (pāpakamma˚) Snp.327 (dhamma˚), Snp.838 (= dvāsaṭṭhi diṭṭhi-vinicchayā Mnd.186), Snp.867 (˚ṃ kūrute; cp. …

vipāḷiyati →

pts

see vipāṭeti 2.

vipāṭeti →

pts

  1. to rip or tear open Vin.ii.115.
  2. to be destroyed, to fall to pieces (cp. pāṭeti & Pass pāṭiyati in sense of “destroy”) Pv.iv.1#46 (sanghāṭiyo vipātayanti T.; vv.ll. vināsayati & vidālayati; Pv-a …

viramati →

pts

to stop, cease; to desist (abl.), abstain, refrain Snp.400 (Pot. ˚meyya), Snp.828 (Pot. ˚me) Snp.925; Mnd.168, Mnd.376; Thig.397 (aor. viramāsi, cp. Geiger

Pali Grammar

§ 165#1); Pv.iv.3#55 (pāpad …

virāgeti →

pts

…the fig. meaning of virāgeti like BSk. ārāgeti for Pāli ārādheti in lit & fig meanings

visaṃvādeti →

pts

…cp. BSk. visaṃvādayati Avs.i.262, after the Pāli

vissa →

pts

…The word is antiquated in Pāli (for it sabba); a few cases in poetry are doubtful. Thus at Dhp.266 (dhamma), where Dhp-a.iii.393 explains as…

vissaṭṭha →

pts

  1. let loose; sent (out); released, dismissed; thrown; given out Mhvs.10, Mhvs.68; Ja.i.370; Ja.iii.373; Pv-a.46, Pv-a.64, Pv-a.123, Pv-a.174.
  2. (of the voice.) distinct, well enunciated DN.i.1 …

vivatta-cchada →

pts

…has not been found in Pāli. The only plausible expln would be taking it as an abs. pp. formation fr. vṛt in Caus. sense…

vusita →

pts

fulfilled accomplished; (or:) lived, spent (= vuttha); only in phrase vusitaṃ brahmacariyaṃ (translation Dial. i.93; “the higher life has been fulfilled”) DN.i.84 (cp. Dhp.i.225 vutthaṃ parivuttha …

vuṇāti →

pts

…in Sk. are also found in Pāli but only peculiar to the Caus. vāreti (the form aor avari as given by Childers should be…

vy →

pts

Vy˚

is the semi-vowel (i.e. half-consonantic) form of vi˚; before following a & ā (vya˚, vyā), very rarely ū & o; The prefix vi˚ is very unstable, and a variety of forms are also attached to …

vāḷa →

pts

Vāḷa1

  1. a snake Vism.312 (so read for vaḷa).
  2. a beast of prey AN.iii.102 (amanussa); Ja.i.295; Ja.iii.345 (˚macchā predaceous fishes); Mil.23 (˚vana forest of wild beas …

y →

pts

…e.g. pari-y-āpanna (Pāli) corresponds to Sk. pary-āpanna, similarly pari-y-osāna = Sk paryosāna. Thus inserted after a before i

ya →

pts

Ya˚

I. Forms

(See inflection also at Geiger, P.Gr. § 110.) The decl. is similar to that of ta˚ among the more rarely found forms we only mention the foll.
■ sg. nom. m. *[yo](/define/y …

yakkha →

pts

  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 …

yaṭṭhi →

pts

  1. a staff, stick, pole MN.iii.133 (tomara˚ goad); SN.i.115 (pācana˚ driving stick, goad); Mil.2; Dhp-a.iii.140 (kattara˚ a mendicant’s staff); Pv-a.241; Vb-a.241 (yantacakka˚); Mhvs.11, Mhvs.10 (v …

yuvan →

pts

…junda, Ohg. jugund & jung, E. young
■ The n- stem is the usual, but later Pāli shows also decl after a-stem, e.g. gen. yuvassa Mhvs.18,…

yāgu →

pts

rice-gruel, rice-milk (to drink). See Vin. Texts ii.89. Vin.i.46 = Vin.ii.223 (sace yāgu hoti, bhājanaṃ dhovitvā yāgu upanametabbā; yāguṃ pītassa udakaṃ datvā…), 51 (id.), Vin.ii.61 (id.), Vin.ii. …

yāna →

pts

  1. going, proceeding Ja.vi.415 (+ ayāna, opposed to ṭhāna).
  2. means of motion, carriage, vehicle. Different kinds of carriages are enumerated at Mnd.145 (on Snp.816) with hatthi˚; (elephant-), *g …

yāva →

pts

…yāvat as nt. of yāvant used as adv. in meanings 1 & 2. The final t is lost in Pāli, but restored as; d in certain combinations: see…

yāvant →

pts

…However, the specific Pāli use of yāva (like tāva) justifies a separate treatment of yāva in that…

ñāti →

pts

relation, relative (= mātito pitito ca sambandhā Pv-a.25; = bandhū Pv-a.86; specialized as ˚sālohitā, see below). Pl. ñātayo (Pv.i.4#3; Kp-a.209 Kp-a.214) and ñātī (MN.ii.73; Kp-a.210, Kp-a.213 …

āgamma →

pts

…q.v. under i.2 for form & under; ii.3 for meaning. BSk. āgamya in meaning after the Pāli form, e.g. Divy.95, Divy.405 (with gen.); Avs.i.85,…

ājāniya →

pts

…(the more common & younger Pāli form): Snp.462, Snp.528, Snp.532; Ja.i.178, Ja.i.194; Dpvs.iv.26; Dhp-a.i.402; Dhp-a.iii.49; Dhp-a.iv.4;…

ājānīya →

pts

…(the more common & younger Pāli form): Snp.462, Snp.528, Snp.532; Ja.i.178, Ja.i.194; Dpvs.iv.26; Dhp-a.i.402; Dhp-a.iii.49; Dhp-a.iv.4;…

āma →

pts

…Pv-a.93 etc.

a specific Pāli formation representing either amma (q.v.) or a gradation of pron. base amu˚ “that (see asu),…

āmutta →

pts

…jewel Divy.2, Divy.3 etc., a meaning which might also be seen in the later Pāli passages, e.g. at Pv-a.134. Semantically cp. ābharaṇa

ānejja →

pts

…to a form like Sk. ṛṇa = Pāli aṇa iṇa, both a & i representing Sk. ṛ. The form; añja would thus correspond to a Sk….

ārañjita →

pts

…be regarded as an idiomatic Pāli form of soundroot *rac (see āracayā˚) mixed with rañj, of which we find another example in the double…

āropana →

pts

“putting on to”, impaling Mil.197 (sūl˚), Mil.290 (id.).

fr. āropeti

ārāma →

pts

  1. pleasure, fondness of (-˚), delight, always as adj. (-˚) delighting in, enjoying finding pleasure in (usually combd. with rata, e.g. dhammārāma dhammarata finding delight in the Dh.) S …

āsava →

pts

…āsrāva. The BSk. āśrava is a (wrong) sankritisation of the Pāli āsava, cp. Divy.391 & kṣīnāśrava

āsīvisa →

pts

snake Vin.iv.108; SN.iv.172; AN.ii.110; AN.iii.69; Ja.i.245; Ja.ii.274; Ja.iv.30, Ja.iv.496; Ja.v.82, Ja.v.267; Pp.48; Vism.470 (in comp.); Dhp-a.i.139; Dhp-a.ii.8, Dhp-a.ii.38; Snp-a.334, Snp-a. …

āvuso →

pts

…Pv-a.208.

a contracted form of āyusmanto pl. of āyusman, of which the regular Pāli form is āyasmant with v for y as frequently in Pāli,…

āvāsa →

pts

sojourn, stay, dwelling, living; dwelling-place, residence Vin.i.92; DN.iii.234; SN.iv.91; AN.ii.68, AN.ii.168; AN.iii.46, AN.iii.262; Snp.406; Dhp.73 (cp. Dhp-a.ii.77); Mnd.128; Ja.vi.105; Dhs.1122 …

āyatana →

pts

…of term as seen by the Pāli Commentators see Bdhgh’s expln at DN-a.i.124, DN-a.i.125, with which cp. the popular etym. at…

āyudha →

pts

is the Vedic form of the common Pāli form āvudha weapon, and occurs only spuriously at DN.i.9 (variant reading āvudha).