cuts off; interrupts; destroys; stops.

to break up or off, to destroy, interrupt, to stop Snp.972 (pot. ˚chinde); Ja.iv.127; Mnd.502; Thag-a.267; Pv-a.31 (kulavaṃso upacchijji aor. pass.); Vism.164, Vism.676 (bhavangaṃ).

upa + chindati

…Dhp.246 (variant reading ˚pāteti) = Dhp-a.iii.356 (: parassa jīvitindriyaṃ upacchindati).

ati + māpeti, Caus. of mī, mināte,…

…(def.); Dhp-a.ii.356 (˚ṃ upacchindati to destroy life) Vv-a.72;

• -kkhaya the dissolution of life, i.e. death Ja.i.222; Pv-a.95,…

…nāseti Ja.iv.69; Vv-a.149; upacchindati Pv-a.31, Pv-a.82; -santaka belonging to one’s family, property of the clan…

…off, diminution If not this reading we should suggest upacchijjiṃsu from upacchindati “were destroyed”, which however is not quite…

cut off, interrupted Ja.i.477; Mil.306.

pp. of upacchindati

…id. Ja.v.383; or upacchindati Ja.iv.63 opp. patiṭṭhāpeti to establish the…