grass; any gramineous plant; a blade of grass; hay, straw (often as a symbol of worthlessness); thatch.

…kusa, babbaja, bīraṇa) satiṇakaṭṭhodaka full of grass, wood & water (of an estate) DN.i.87, DN.i.111, etc.; sītaṃ vā uṇhaṃ vā…

Channa¹

A Wanderer, classed among those who wore clothes. He is only mentioned once, in the Aṅguttara Nikāya, AN.iii.215 where we are told that he visited Ānanda at Sāvatthī and asked him …

A Paribbājaka. He once visited the Buddha at Veḷuvana and questioned him regarding predestination. The Buddha explains to him that suffering arises from various causes—bile, phlegm, wind, bodily humou …

Sujātā¹

The foremost laywoman in being first to go for refuge. DN.ii.135 AN.i.26

Sujātā²

A lay woman of Ñātikā. The Buddha said that she had become a sotāpanna and had thus as …

Udaya¹

A brahmin of Sāvatthī. One day the Buddha came to his house and he filled the Buddha’s bowl with the food prepared for his own use. Three days in succession the Buddha came, and Uda …

1. spends (time), lets (time) elapse; lets the time pass.
2. makes pass; makes pass into, leads (someone) into.

1. going; moving; gait; progress, movement; progress in knowledge/understanding.
2. where one goes or has gone; path; way, course; method.
3. where one goes/moves; one’s sphere.
4. where one goes to; …

plants, grasses, and trees

plants, grasses, and trees

greedy; complaining.

(one) who eats grass.

cushion or bolster stuffed with grass.

1. (n.) a place overgrown with grass.
2. (mfn.) a place dense with grass; a clump of grass or hay.

one who fetches (cuts and sells) grass or hay.

(one) who fetches grass or hay.

rubbish of (dead) grass, twigs, and leaves.

figure made of straw.

layer of grass as a bed or mat.

layer of grass as a bed or mat.

kind of drum.

“a covering of grass”, one of the seven adhikaraṇasamatha (method of setting a case or dispute)

roll or head-pad of grass.

with the straw off, deprived of straw; thatch-less.

grasping, sticking to what has been laid down; ? obstinate.

Avijjā: I gnorance, nescience, the blindness of not knowing, is synonymous with confusion moha (see mūla ), is the primary & deepest root of all evil and suffering in the world, veiling man’s …

Gati: lit. ‘going’: ‘course of existence’, destiny, destination.;There are 5 courses of existence: hell, animal kingdom, ghost realm, human world, divine world; D. 33; A. XI, 68. Of these, the fir …

*Āyatana:
* 1: Spheres, is a name for the four formless absorptions; see: jhāna 5-8.
2: The 12 sources or bases on which depend the mental processes, consist of five physical sense-organs an …

Addha¹

(num.) one half, half (˚-) DN.i.166 (˚māsika); AN.ii.160 (-māsa); Ja.i.59 (-yojana); iii. 189 (˚māsa).

= aḍḍha, q.v.

Addha²

adjective soiled, wet; fig. attached …

A. Prep. and pref. of direction & place:

1. as direction denoting a movement towards a definite end or goal up to, over, toward, to, on (see C 1a.)
2. as place where (prep. c. loc. or abs.) = …

1. decision, resolution, self-determination, will (cp. on this meaning Cpd. 62; DN.iii.229 (where 4 are enumerated, viz. paññā˚, sacca˚ cāga upasama˚); Ja.i.23; Ja.v.174; Pts.i.108; Pts.ii.171 sq., …

…skin Vism.195;

• -tiṇa fresh grass DN-a.i.77; Pv-a.40;
• -dārūni green sticks Ja.i.318
• -madhu fresh honey…

Anta¹

1. end, finish, goal SN.iv.368 (of Nibbāna); Snp.467; Ja.ii.159. antaṃ karoti to make an end (of) Snp.283, Snp.512; Dhp.275, cp. antakara, ˚kiriyā
   ■ loc. ante at the end of, …

(see Kvu trsl. 234 n. 2 and Cpd. 172 n. 2). Bent, bias proclivity, the persistance of a dormant or latent disposition predisposition, tendency. Always in bad sense. In the oldest texts the word usuall …

…Snp.p.15 (= paritta-harita-tiṇa Snp-a.154).

Vedic alpa, cp. Gr. ἀλαπάζω (λαπάζω) to empty (to make little), ἀλαπαδνός…

to pass time AN.i.206; Mil.345.

BSk. atināmayati, e.g. Divy.82, Divy.443; ati + nāmeti

…(lohita-pubba˚); Pp.55 (tiṇa˚) Sdhp.388 (tiṇa˚). 2. eatable, to be eaten; nt. -ṃ food, prey, in cpd. appa-bhakkha offering no food…

…Vin.ii.150 = Vb-a.365 (tiṇa˚).

• -bimbohana bolster & pillow Vin.i.47; Vin.ii.208; Dhp-a.i.416; Vb-a.365.

cp. Epic Sk. bṛṣī &…

…Pv.iii.10#7; Vv-a.47 (tiṇa litter).

cp. Vedic busa (nt.) & buśa (m.)

Bhusa²

adjective strong, mighty, great Dhp.339…

fragrant grass; Andropogon schoenanthus Ja.vi.36 (= phanijjaka); Vism.543 (so variant reading for T. bhūtinaka).

cp. *Sk. bhūtṛna

…adj. fig.); Ja.i.242 (tiṇa˚-ādīni grass and other seeds), Ja.i.281; Pv.i.1#1; Vism.555 (in simile); Kp-a.194 (on Snp.235, in another…

covering (of a house or hut), thatch, straw, hay (for eating) Ja.vi.354 (= gehacchādana-tiṇa).

to move, to shake Ja.v.40; to scatter Ja.i.71 (tiṇāni); to sift Vin.i.202.

caus. of calati

…wood Ja.i.108 (d
■ tiṇagaccha a jungle of wood & grass); Ja.v.46 (d
■ gahana a thicket of shrubs & trees); Vism.353 (˚tiṇa).

Sk….

nt. only in expression satta divasāni 7 days or a week Ja.iv.139; Mil.15) a day AN.i.206 (˚ṃ atināmeti); Ja.iii.52 (uposatha˚); Pv-a.31 (yāva sattadivasā a week long), Pv-a.74 (sattamo divaso) Usu …

…blight of the field Mil.360; tiṇa˚ spoilt by weeds Dhp.356; Pv-a.7; visa ill effect of poison Thag.758, Thag.768; sneha˚ blemish of sensual…

unruliness, contumacy, stubbornness, obstinacy AN.i.83, AN.iii.310, AN.iii.448 AN.v.146 sq.; DN.iii.212, DN.iii.274; Pp.20; Dhs.1326 (cp. Dhs trsl. p. 344); Vb.359, Vb.369, Vb.371.

second abstr. of dovacassa

…Vin.ii.138; SN.ii.152 (tiṇa˚); SN.iv.189 (bahukaṇṭaka d. = jungle) AN.v.337 (tiṇa˚); Ja.iii.274; Ja.vi.278. See also dāva.

*…

…usually appl. to grass: tiṇa˚ AN.i.153 = AN.iii.128 (+ rukkha˚); Mil.369; adj. tiṇagahanā obstructed with grass (of vihārā)…

…hair and feathers SN.iv.290 (tiṇa˚); Ja.i.158 (do.); Ja.i.25 (naḷa˚), Ja.i.51 (mālā˚), Ja.i.100 (uppalakumuda˚); Ja.v.39 (usīra˚);…

(karala) a wisp of grass (tiṇa˚) Dhp-a.iii.38; Dhs-a.272.

…In phrase “sattussada sa-tiṇa-kaṭṭh’ odaka sa-dhañña” (densely populated with good supply of grass, firewood, water, and corn) in…

Koṭṭha¹

masculine neuter anything hollow and closed in (Cp. gabbha for both meanings) as

1. the stomach or abdomen Mil.265, Vism.357; Sdhp.257.
2. a closet, a monk’s cell, a storeroom MN. …

…tikhiṇadhāraṃ tiṇaṃ antamaso tālapaṇṇam pi; Dhp.311; Ja.i.190 (= tiṇa); Ja.iv.140. 2. a blade of grass used as a mark or a…

adjective indolent, inert, inactive. Expl. by kāma-vitakkādīhi vitakkehi vītināmanakapuggalo Dhp-a.ii.260; by nibbiriyo Dhp-a.iii.410; by alaso Pv-a.175, Often combined with *[hīnaviriya](/define/ …

…blunt (of a sword) Dhp-a.i.311 (˚kuddāla); Pp AN.i.34 (of asi, opp tikkhina); ˚tiṇa a kind of grass Vism.353. 2. a cripple Ja.ii.117.

cp….

…Dhp-a.ii.23. Cp. also tiṇa˚, dāru˚; arañña a hut in the woods SN.i.61; SN.iii.116; SN.iv.380. Often fig. for body (see…

cutting Ja.v.45 (tiṇa-lāyana asi, sickle); Dhp-a.iii.285 (variant reading for dāyana).

fr. lāyati

cut, reaped Ja.iii.130 (tiṇaṃ na lāyita-pubbaṃ); Vism.419 (˚ṭṭhāna place where one has reaped).

pp. of lāyati, lāyeti

indeclinable prohibition particle: not, do not, let us hope not, I wish that… not [cp Lat. utinam & ne]. Constructed with various tenses e.g.

1. with aor. (prohibitive tense): mā evaṃ akattha do …

…ûpatāpa (id.) Vism.166; tiṇa -māsin eating grass Ja.vi.354 (= tiṇakhādaka C.)
■ A similar case where Sandhi-m-has led to a wrong…

…ûpatāpa (id.) Vism.166; tiṇa -māsin eating grass Ja.vi.354 (= tiṇakhādaka C.)
■ A similar case where Sandhi-m-has led to a wrong…

…ûpatāpa (id.) Vism.166; tiṇa -māsin eating grass Ja.vi.354 (= tiṇakhādaka C.)
■ A similar case where Sandhi-m-has led to a wrong…

Nala & Naḷa

a species of reed; reed in general Vin.iv.35; AN.ii.73; Dhp.337; Cnd.680#ii; Ja.i.223; Ja.iv.141 Ja.iv.396 (n. va chinno); Pv.i.11#6 (id.); Dhp-a.iii.156; Dhp-a.iv.43 See also nāḷa, nāḷ …

Nala & Naḷa

a species of reed; reed in general Vin.iv.35; AN.ii.73; Dhp.337; Cnd.680#ii; Ja.i.223; Ja.iv.141 Ja.iv.396 (n. va chinno); Pv.i.11#6 (id.); Dhp-a.iii.156; Dhp-a.iv.43 See also nāḷa, nāḷ …

adjective free from grass Ja.iii.23.

Sk. niṣṭṛṇa, nis + tiṇa

…Cp. nevāpika.

• -tiṇa grass to eat Ja.i.150;
• -puṭṭha fed on grains Dhp.325 (=…

stopping, dwelling, resting-place, abode; living, sheltering Ja.i.115 (˚ṃ kappeti to put up), Ja.ii.110; Pv-a.76, Pv-a.78. Usually in phrase pubbe-nivāsaṃ anussarati “to remember one’s former ab …

…osadhi-tiṇavanappatayo) Pv.ii.6#10 with Snp.296 (gāvo… yāsu jāyanti osadhā); DN.i.12, cp DN-a.i.98; Pv.iii.5#3;…

adjective troublesome, annoying; (m.) a troubler worrier SN.i.174 (variant reading pagaṇḍaka; C. rasagiddha; trsl “pertinacious”).

pa + kaṭṭha + ka; kaṭṭha pp. of kṛṣ, cp. Sk. prakarṣaka of same …

…Texts* ii.46) AN.i.183 (tiṇa +) Snp.811 (p. vuccati paduma-pattaṃ Mnd.135); Ja.i.167; Ja.ii.105 (nimba)˚; Kp-a.46 (khitta-p
■…

…leaves“); Pv-a.256 (tiṇakaṭṭha-paṇṇaka-sala, is reading correct?). 2. Name of a water plant, most likely a kind of fern (see…

to accept gladly, to greet in return SN.i.189.

paṭi + nandati

rejoicing or rejoiced; greeted, welcomed Snp.452 (pati˚); Ja.vi.14, Ja.vi.412.

pp. of paṭi + nand

false nose Ja.i.455, Ja.i.457.

paṭi + nāsikā

means of reaching a goal or destination, path, way, means, method, mode of progress (cp. Dhs. translation 53, 82, 92, 143), course, practice (cp. BSk. pratipad in meaning of pratipatti “line of cond …

…(cp. piṭṭhiyaṃ); tiṇa˚ Ja.iv.444 panka˚ Ja.i.223; samudda˚ Ja.i.202
■ assa˚ on horseback DN.i.103; similarly: vāraṇassa p….

…the variant is…

…C. = lohita); Mil.216 (tiṇa˚-roga, a disease, Kern “hay-fever”). Kern,

Toevoegselen

s. v. trsl^s the Ja passage with…

…a (little) man, only in -tiṇa doll effigy made of grass (straw), scarecrow Mil.352; Vism.462; Dhs-a.111. 2. (adj.) having a man f. -ikā…

…gūtha˚ Ja.ii.211; tiṇa˚ AN.iii.408; palāla˚ DN.i.71; MN.iii.3; AN.i.241; AN.ii.210 maṃsa˚ DN.i.52; vālika˚ Ja.vi.560;…

…wet, staining dust DN.ii.19 (tiṇa +); Snp.662 = Pv-a.116 (sukhumo rajo paṭivātaṃ khitto); Iti.83; Dhs.617 (dhūmo +). adj. rāja˚: in…

…Ja.ii.102; Dhp-a.i.25; tiṇapupphaka˚ hay-fever Mil.216
■ See also ātaṅka ābādha. On roga in similes see J.P.T.S. 1907, 130….

…or sow Ja.i.150 (nivāpatiṇaṃ); Mhvs.15, Mhvs.42 (amb’ aṭṭhikaṃ); Mhvs.19, Mhvs.56; Dhp-a.ii.109. 2. to put up, fix Ja.i.143…

1. colour, hue; colouring, dye Vin.ii.107 (anga˚ “rougeing” the body bhikkhū angarāgaṃ karonti); Thag-a.78; Snp-a.315 (nānāvidha˚).
2. (as t. t. in philosophy & ethics) excitement passion; seldom by …

…grown Snp.20 (˚tiṇa). 2. (see rūhati) healed up Mil.291 (˚vaṇa one whose wound has healed): cp….

adjective grassy Thag.211; Ja.i.87; Ja.vi.518); Mil.286; Pv.ii.12#10 (= taruṇa-tiṇa Pv-a.158).

cp. Sk. śādvala

couch or mat Vin.ii.162; AN.i.277; Tha-ap.97 (tiṇa˚).

fr. saṃ + str

…the right spelling. 2. (nt.) a rug or mat Vin.iii.224; Vv.63#5 (= tiṇa-santharaka Vv-a.262).

pp. of santharati

spread, cover, mat Vin.ii.113 (tiṇa˚), Vin.ii.116.

santhāra + ka cp. BSk. sanstāraka Mvu.iii.272

1. nature, character, habit behaviour; usually as-˚ in adj. function “being of such a nature,” like, having the character of…, e.g. adāna˚; of stingy character, illiberal Snp.244; Pv-a.68 (+ macc …

needle Vin.ii.115, Vin.ii.117, Vin.ii.177; SN.ii.215 sq., SN.ii.257; Ja.i.111, Ja.i.248 Vism.284 (in simile); a hairpin Thig.254; Ja.i.9; a small door-bolt, a pin to secure the bolt MN.i.126; Thig.11 …

…detail expl. MN.ii.249; + tiṇavatthāraka DN.iii.254; AN.i.99. -kammaṃ karoti to carry out proceedings against someone guilty of a certain…

to make wet, to moisten Vin.i.47 (temetabba); Vin.ii.209 (temetvā); Dhp-a.i.220, Dhp-a.i.394 (id.) Ja.i.88≈ Kp-a.164; Ja.ii.325 (temento); Pv-a.46 (sutemitvā for temetvā).

cp. Divy.285 tīmayati; …

1. a pillar, a post Vin.i.276; DN.i.50 (majjhimaṃ ˚ṃ nissāya), DN.ii.85 (id.); Snp.214; Vv.78#2 (veḷuriya˚, of the pillars of a Vimāna); Pv.iii.3#1 (id.); Dhp-a.iv.203; Vv-a.188 (+ tulā-gopānasī); …

adjective obstinate Thag.952.

(& thāmo nt. in instr. thāmasā MN.i.498; SN.ii.278 = Thag.1165; SN.iii.110, see below) “standing power, power of resistance, steadfastness, strength, firmness vigour, instr. thāmena (Mil.4; Pv-a.19 …

adjective dark; nt. darkness Vv.32#3 (t. tamba) Ja.iii.189 (t. rukkha); vanatimira a flower Ja.iv.285 Ja.v.182.

Sk. timira fr. tim = tam (as in tamas), to which also belong tibba 2 & tintiṇāti. Thi …

…AN.v.149 (Com. tintiṇaṃ vuccati taṇhā, tāya samannāgato āsankābahulo vā); Vb.351 (tintiṇaṃ tintiṇāyanā, etc. =…

…out in a) faint Ja.i.243 (tintiṇanto corresp. with mucchita); Ja.vi.347 (tintiṇāyamāna, variant reading tiṇāy˚).

either = Sk. timirayati…

…out in a) faint Ja.i.243 (tintiṇanto corresp. with mucchita); Ja.vi.347 (tintiṇāyamāna, variant reading tiṇāy˚).

either = Sk. timirayati…

…MN.iii.167 (t. pāṇā tiṇabhakkhā); Nd ii.on Snp.72 (t- pāṇā); Ja.i.459 (= vanagocara); Vb.412 sq.;

• -yoni the…

kind of grass or creeper AN.iii.240, AN.iii.242 (tiriyā nāma tiṇajāti; Com. dabbatiṇa).

sort of drum AN.ii.117.

adjective in uttiṇaṃ karoti to take the straw off, lit. to make off-straw; to deprive of the roof MN.ii.53. Cp. next.

ud + tiṇa

…karoti make entrances in the hut). Or should it be uttiṇa?

pp. of uttarati

…(sītaṃ vā uṇhaṃ vā tiṇaṃ vā rajo vā ussāvo vā); Snp.52, Snp.966 (acc ˚); Mnd.486 = Cnd.677 (same as under sita); Ja.i.17 (verse…

…e.g. SN.iv.302 (osadhī + tiṇa + v.; opposed to herbs, as in R.V.); AN.i.152; Ja.i.329; Ja.iv.233 (tiṇa-latā-vanaspatiyo) Dhp-a.i.3. *…

…sheath, bag, pod Ja.iii.366 (tiṇa˚); Mhvs.26, Mhvs.17 (marica˚ red pepper pod) Dhp-a.iv.203 (reṇu˚). 6. a lump, ball Dhp-a.iii.117…

one of the dogmatic terms of Buddhist teaching varying in meaning in diff. sections of the Canon. It is not always the positive to avijjā (which has quite a well-defined meaning f …

lit. to make [it] get light; rattiṃ v. to spend the night (till it gets light) Snp.1142 Cnd.594 (= atināmeti)- vivasati is Kern’s proposed reading for *[vijahati](/define/vija …

day (opp. night), a day Dāvs i.55; Dāvs v.66.

cp. Vedic vāsara matutinal, vasaḥ early

adjective (-˚) belonging to or connected with the winds (of the body) in ahi-vātaka-roga a cert (intestinal) disease (lit. “snake-pain”), pestilence plague; dysentery (caused by a famine and att …

Buddhist monk Mhvs.5, Mhvs.37 (racchāgataṃ yatiṃ); Mhvs.25, Mhvs.4; Mhvs.30, Mhvs.26 (mattikā-dāyakaṃ yatiṃ); Mhvs.32, Mhvs.32 (khīṇāsavassa yatino) Dāvs iv.33 (yatī); Vism.79 (vikampeti Mārassa hada …

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 …

1. putting up, putting down, placing, laying AN.iv.41 (aggissa ādhānaṃ, variant reading of 6 MSS ādānaṃ).
2. receptacle MN.i.414 (udak˚), cp. ādheyya.
3. enclosure, hedge Mil.220 (kaṇṭak˚ thorny brake …

…eating at Ja.vi.354 (tiṇa˚, expl^d. by C. as khādaka)
■ āsita at Ja.v.70 is very doubtful, variant reading āsina &…

state (as opposed to becoming), stability, steadfastness; duration, continuance, immobility; persistence, keeping up (of c. gen.); condition of (-˚) relation SN.ii.11; SN.iii.31; SN.iv.14 SN.iv.104, …