*Dassati¹

to see, to perceive.

1. (pres.) base dakkh [Sk. drakṣ]: pres.
   1. dakkhati Cnd.428 (= passati), 1st dakkhāmi ibid. (= passāmi) second dakkhasi SN.i.11 …

…(cp. Vin. Texts ii.60); -visa poison Pp.48; Dhp-a.ii.38 -sappa a poisonous snake Dhp-a.ii.256.

a…

…(pasanna +).

• -sappa a kind of poisonous snake (i.e. a mysterious, magic snake) DN-a.i.197.

cp. Vedic maṇi. The…

…a sharp stake 10. sappa-sira, a snake’s head, i.e. the bite of a snake

At Vin.ii.25; MN.i.130; AN.iii.97 (where aṭṭhisankhala);…

…MN.i.384; a list given at AN.v.203. 2. (adj.) one who makes play Ja.iv.308 (sappa˚ a snake-trainer, cp. sappaṃ kīḷāpeti Ja.ii.267).

…Ja.v.473; Vism.254 (˚sappa-piṭṭhi, where Kp-a.49 in same passage reads “milāta-dham(m)ani-piṭṭhi”); Dhp-a.i.335…

snake MN.i.130; AN.iii.97, AN.iii.260 sq.; Snp.768; Ja.i.46, Ja.i.259, Ja.i.310, Ja.i.372; Ja.v.447 (kaṇha˚); Mnd.7; DN-a.i.197; Snp-a.13. Often in similes, e.g. Vism.161, Vism.587; Kp-a.144; Snp …

…Thag.418; Thag.768; Snp.1 (sappa snake venom); AN.ii.110; Ja.i.271 (halāhala˚ deadly p.), Ja.iii.201; Ja.iv.222; Pp.48; Mil.302; Pv-a.62,…

…by means of snakes DN.i.9 (= sappa-daṭṭhatikicchana-vijjā c’ eva sapp’ avhāyana-vijjā ea “the art of healing snake bites as well as…

Kacchā¹

feminine

1. enclosure denoting both the enclosing and the enclosed i.e. wall or room: see kacchantara.
2. an ornament for head & neck (of an elephant), ve …

1. as nt. subst. what? sotānaṃ kiṃ nivāraṇaṃ what is the obstruction? Snp.1032; kiṃ tava patthanāya what is it about your wish, i.e. what good is your wish? Vv-a.226; kim idaṃ this is what, that is …

adverb

1. (as prep.) up to (a point), as far as, how far so far that (cp. tāva I), both temporal and local, used either with absolute form of noun or adj. (base), or nom., or abl. or *acc …