Purāṇa¹

A monk who lived in Dakkhiṇāgiri. It is said that when he visited Rājagaha after the holding of the First Council, he was asked to give his approval to the “findings” of the same. …

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. …

…Pv-a.77 (id.). As Np. in Pūraṇa Kassapa, which however seems to be distorted from Purāṇa K. (DN.i.47; Snp.p.92, cp. Kp-a.126, Kp-a.175;…

…with him the views of Pūraṇa Kassapa. The Buddha teaches him about the seven bojjhangas.

In the Vinaya, Vin.i.269 Abhaya is mentioned as…

…uttered the praises of his own teacher. Asama eulogised Pūraṇa-Kassapa. SN.i.65

Isidatta¹

A verse uttered by Isidatta, in response to the Buddha’s enquiry regarding his welfare, is recorded in the Therāgāthā. Thag.120

According to the Saṃyutta Nikāya, SN.iv.283–288 I …

…Nadī°, Nārada°, Pūraṇa°, Mahā° and Lomasa°.

Kassapa was evidently a well-known gotta name and people born in a family bearing…

…to ask if he had seen Sakka SN.i.230 and also to beg information as to the teachings of Pūraṇa Kassapa. SN.iii.68 This conversation…

…are instead ascribed to Pūraṇa Kassapa. SN.iii.69 Elsewhere. AN.i.286 Makkhali is confounded with Ajita Kesakambala, and sometimes….

A woman follower of the Buddha. She was the daughter of Pūraṇa, chamberlain of Pasenadi, and niece of Isidatta. AN.iii.347 AN.v.137

Nanda¹Vaccha

Mentioned in a list of well known leaders of the Ajivakas, the others being Kisa Saṅkicca and Makkhali Gosāla. MN.i.524 They were declared by Purāṇa Kassapa, in his classifica …

Pūraṇa Kassapa

One of the six well known teachers, contemporaneous with the Buddha. He is said to have taught the doctrine of non-action,…

A village in Kosala where Isidatta and Purāṇa once stayed. SN.v.348

One of the sixteen Great Nations. It is mentioned with Maccha, and was located in the south of the Kuru country. Its capital was Mathurā. It is famous in the Epics and the Purānas because of its conne …

The fourth of the six deva worlds. AN.i.210

Four hundred years of human life are equal to one day of the Tusita world and four thousand years, so reckoned, is the term of life of a deva born in Tusit …

Veḷuvana¹Veṇuvana

A park near Rājagaha, the pleasure garden of Bimbisāra. When the Buddha first visited Rājagaha, after his Enlightenment, he stayed at the Latthivanuyyāna. Vin.i.35 The da …

…in praise of various teachers of other schools: Pakuddha-Kātiyāna (sic), Nigaṇṭha, Makkhali, Pūraṇa. Vetambari made rejoinder to…

(from apāpurati) a key

(from apāpurati)a key

Akiriya-ditthi: The false view or opinion of the inefficacy of action: That neither moral good nor moral evil action have any delayed consequences for anyone. This wrong view w as taught by Pūran …

to turn somebody’s mind on (c. acc.), to induce somebody (dat.) to (acc.) Vin.iii.18 (purāṇadutiyikāya methunaṃ dhammaṃ abhiviññāpesi).

abhi + viññāpeti

key (to a door) Vin.i.80; Vin.iii.119; MN.iii.127. See also avāpuraṇa. Apapurati & Apapunati;

fr. apāpurati

sword, a large knife DN.i.77 (= DN-a.i.222); MN.ii.99; AN.i.48 = (asinā sīsaṃ chindante); AN.iv.97 (asinā hanti attānaṃ); Ja.iv.118 (asi sunisito), Ja.iv.184; Ja.v.45 (here meaning “sickle”), Ja.v.47 …

key SN.iii.132; AN.iv.374.

same as apāpuraṇa

adjective

1. right (opp vāma left), with a tinge of the auspicious, lucky prominent: Vin.ii.195 (hattha); Pv-a.112, Pv-a.132 (id.) Pts.i.125. hattha, pāda, etc. with ref. to a Tathāgata’s body); Ja …

adjective noun

1. the second, following, next Ja.i.504 (˚cittavāre); ˚ṃ a second time MN.i.83
2. a companion; only in f. dutiyikā a wife or female compound Vin.iv.230, Vin.iv.270 (a bhikkhunī as co …

…chief sectarian leaders, as Pūraṇa Kassapa, etc.: DN.i.47, DN.i.163; SN.i.68; SN.iv.398; MN.i.198, MN.i.227, MN.i.233; MN.ii.2; Snp.p.91; cp….

collection of houses, a hamlet (cp. Ger. gemeinde), a habitable place (opp. arañña: gāme vā yadi vâraññe Snp.119), a parish or village having boundaries & distinct from the surrounding country (gāmo c …

…(= hi-kāro nipāto padapūraṇa-matto); Pv-a.70, Pv-a.76. In verse Ja.iv.495. h’etaṃ = hi etaṃ; no h’etaṃ not so DN.i.3….

one who wears a jaṭā, i.e. a braid of hair, or who has his hair matted, an ascetic. enumerated amongst other ʻreligious’ as ājīvikā nigaṇṭhā j paribbājakā Cnd.308; ājīvikā nig˚ j. tāpasā Cnd.149 Cnd.5 …

jungle cock used as a decoy Ja.ii.162 purāṇa˚, Ja.ii.161; cp. dīpaka¹ & see Kern,

Toevoegselen

p. 118 K˚-Jātaka, N˚ 209.

onomat, cp. Sk. kṛkavāku cock, Gr. κέρκας, κερκίς, Lat. querqu …

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 …

destroyed, exhausted, removed, wasted, gone; in compounds ˚-often to be translated “without.” It is mostly applied to the destruction of the passions (āsavā) & demerit (kamma). Khīṇā jāti “destroyed …

(nt.; but poetic pl. kulā Pv.ii.9#43)

1. clan a high social grade, “good family,” cp. Gr. (doric) φυά, Goth. kuni. A collection of cognates and agnates, in sense of Ohg. sippa, clan; “house” in sense …

group, heap, collection, aggregate, body

Definitions and synonyms

Snp-a.31 gives the foll. synonyms and similes of kāya: kuṭī, guhā (Snp.772), deha, sandeha (Dhp.148 = Thag.20), nāvā (Dhp.3 …

adjective

1. rough, coarse, unpleasant; poor, bad (usually applied to dress or food); mediocre, meagre, wretched. Opp paṇīta (e.g. Vin.i.212; SN.ii.153; AN.iv.10; Ja.i.228; Vv-a. …

Macchariya & Macchera

neuter avarice, stinginess, selfishness, envy; one of the principal evil passions & the maịn cause of rebirth in the Petaloka

1. macchariya: AN.i.95, AN.i.299; AN.iii.272; Dh …

Macchariya & Macchera

neuter avarice, stinginess, selfishness, envy; one of the principal evil passions & the maịn cause of rebirth in the Petaloka

1. macchariya: AN.i.95, AN.i.299; AN.iii.272; Dh …

…6 pada-pūraṇa matte to make up a foot of the verse (or add a syllable for the sake of completeness with example…

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 …

…Cnd.137; Snp-a.28.

• -pūraṇa filling out a verse; as tt. g. expletive particle Snp-a.590 a, Snp-a.139 (kho),…

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 …

fulfilment, completion Vism.3 (sīla˚). See pāripūraṇa.

fr. paripūreti

only in one stock phrase viz. purāṇañ ca vedanaṃ paṭihankhāmi navañ ca vedanaṃ na uppādessāmi “I shall destroy any old feeling and not produce any new” SN.iv.104 = AN.ii.40 AN.iii.388 = AN.iv.167 = Mn …

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

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

*Pura

base of adv. & prep. denoting “before”; abl. purato (adv. & prep. in front of (with gen.), before (only local) Vin.i.179 Vin.ii.32; DN.ii.14 (mātu); SN.i.137; Pv.i.11#1, Pv …

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

cover, dress, cloak SN.i.175; Mil.279; Dhp-a.iii.1. See also pārupana.

through *pāvuraṇa fr. pra + vṛ; cp. Sk. prāvaraṇa

cloak, mantle MN.i.359; Vin.iv.255, Vin.iv.289; Thag-a.22.

fr. pa + ā + vṛ; see pāpuraṇa & pārupana

…& var. places) are Pūraṇa Kassapa, Makkhali Gosāla, Nigaṇṭha Nāthaputta, Sañjaya Belaṭṭhiputta, Ajita-Kesakambalī.

5…

one with whom one has formerly been friendly Ja.v.448. Sakhalya & Sakhalla;

fr. sakhi + purāṇa˚

wound, sore Vin.i.205 (m.), Vin.i.218 (vaṇo rūḷho); Vin.iii.36 (m; angajāte), Vin.iii.117 (angajāte) SN.iv.177 (vaṇaṃ ālimpeti); AN.v.347 sq., AN.v.350 sq.; AN.v.359 Cnd.540; Pp-a 212 (purāṇa-vaṇa- …

1. (f.) feeling, sensation (see on term, e.g. Cpd. 14 Mrs. Rh D. B. Psy., ch. iv.) DN.i.45; DN.ii.58 (cp. Dial. ii.54), DN.ii.66, DN.iii.58, DN.iii.77, DN.iii.221, DN.iii.228, DN.iii.238 (˚upādā …

“decider,” one connected with a law-suit or with the law, magistrate, a higher official (mahāmatta) in the law-courts, a judge or justice. At Vin.i.74 two classes of mahāmattā (ministers) are give …

1. travel, going on, proceeding, good habit (like yāta; cp. yātrā = anuvṛtti Halāyudha 5, 33; SN.i.33; SN.i.16 = SN.i.63 (translation K.S., perhaps wrongly “egress”: it is more a question of *going …