(an interrogative particle, introducing the second part of a double question or the third part of a triple question): or.

…ve Snp.1075, Snp.1077; udāhu no Snp.347; eva… no udāhu (so… or not) DN.i.152; (ayaṃ) nu kho-udāhu (ayaṃ) is it (this)-(this)…

…(either alone or with vā, udāhu etc) 5. no ce:

1. if not (followed by a verb, or forming a sentence by itself)
2. may there not; I hope…

…exclamations Vv.62#2 (= udāhu Vv-a.258 variant reading SS. ādu) = Pv.iv.3#17 (ādu) = Dhp-a.i.31 (T. ādu variant reading adu); Vv.63#1…

…vā tiṭṭhaṃ nisinno udāhu sayaṃ Iti.117 (walking, standing, sitting reclining; the four iriyāpathā); care tiṭṭhe acche saye…

…me tvaṃ vihito… udāhu me cetayase vadhāya Ja.iii.146-acinteyya that which must not or cannot be thought AN.ii.80 (cattāri ˚āni…

…me tvaṃ vihito… udāhu me cetayase vadhāya Ja.iii.146-acinteyya that which must not or cannot be thought AN.ii.80 (cattāri ˚āni…

…jīvaṃ taṃ sarīraṃ udāhu aññaṃ j. aññaṃ s.“ (is the body the soul, or is the body one thing and the soul another?) see…

…pitaraṃ pucchasi udāhu atīte? “do you enquire about your father in this existence, or in a past one? Pv-a.38; kiṃ nakkhattaṃ…

…DN.i.107 nu kho… no udāhu (is it that—or not; or rather DN.i.152 3. noce (no ce = Sk. no ced) if not (opp sace) Snp.348, Snp.691,…

…Kp-a.191
■ See also udāhu.

Sk. uta & u, with Lat. aut (or), Gr.; α ̔ϋτι (again), αὐτάρ (but, or), Goth. auk…

…Ja.v.384 Ja.vi.382; without udāhu at Ja.v.460 (adu). The close connection with udāhu suggests an expl^n. of ādu as a somehow distorted…