cattle-fold, cow-pen AN.iii.393; Ja.ii.300; Ja.iii.270, Ja.iii.379; Vism.166, Vism.279; Dhp-a.i.126, Dhp-a.i.396
■ giribbaja a (cattle or sheep) run on the mountain Ja.iii …

…Ja.v.130.

cp. Vedic vāja strength; Idg. *ṷeġ, cp. vājeti, vajra (P. vajira); Lat. vegeo to be alert “vegetation”, vigeo to be…

…Snp.21–25

Aggikabhāradvāja²AggikaBhāradvāja

A brahmin of Rājagaha, a fire-tender. He prepares a meal for sacrifice, and when…

…of the Bhāradvāja brothers. He came to the Buddha at Sāvatthī and the Buddha suggested to him the…

AsurindakabhāradvājaAsurindakaBhāradvāja

A brahmin, one of three brothers who had conversations with the Buddha and were converted. SN.i.163f.

AṅgaṇikabhāradvājaAṅgaṇikaBhāradvāja

A brahmin fire-worshipper who practiced asceticism to gain immortality. Later he practiced…

…Yamataggi, Bhāradvāja, Vāseṭṭha, Kassapa and Bhagu. The list occurs in several places. Vin.i.245 AN.iii.224 MN.ii.169…

…Aṅgīrasa, Bhāradvāja, Vāseṭṭha and Bhagu), Vin.i.245 DN.i.104 as the ancient sages of the brahmins. They abstained from food at…

A brahmin of the Bhāradvājagotta who had seven widowed daughters and was much in debt. One day he lost fourteen oxen, and, after searching for them…

…and Suddhika Bhāradvāja; Aggika Bhāradvāja joined the Order at Veḷuvana, Sundarika Bhāradvāja on the banks of the Sundarikā, and…

BilaṅgikaBhāradvāja

One of the Bhāradvāja brothers. On hearing that the eldest of the clan had entered the Order, he went to the Buddha, and,…

…he converted Kasī-Bhāradvāja and Dhammasava and his father. On another of these occasions the Buddha saw the Magadhakhetta, which gave him the…

…preached to Kāsī-Bhāradvāja the sutta which bears his name and which converted him to the faith. Snp.p.12ff. SN.i.172ff.

23.4834,…

…Vāseṭṭha and Bhāradvāja at Icchānaṅkala, who, finding it impossible to bring their discussion to a conclusion, sought the Buddha, then…

A brahmin of the Bhāradvājagotta. He goes to the Buddha and asks him the questions given in the Jaṭā Sutta. The Buddha gives the same answer….

…of a brahmin of the Bhāradvāja-gotta, where a grass mat was spread for him by the brahmin. It was on this occasion, according to the…

A brahmin of the Bhāradvāja clan, living at Ekanālā, in Dakkhiṇāgiri, and so called on account of his profession of agriculture. On the day of…

…and Piṇḍola-Bhāradvāja preached to the women of Udena’s palace on two different occasions. Vin.ii.290f. The Buddha is mentioned as…

…In the Sutta the Buddha addresses Kāpathika as Bhāradvāja, perhaps because he belonged to that gotta.

A place on the Saṅkheyya Mountain where Uttara is said to have stayed, in Dhavajālika vihāra. AN.iv.162

on the Saṅkheyya Mountain in Dhavajālika vihāra.3monastery

…hut of the brahmin Bhāradvājaggotta at Kammāsadamma and Māgaṇḍiya came to the hut. Seeing the grass mat on which the Buddha slept at…

Navakammika Bhāradvāja

One of the Bhāradvājas. Once, when the Buddha was staying in a forest in Kosala, Navakammika, who was there seeing about…

…arahant who announced before the Buddha his readiness to answer the questions of any doubting monks, thus…

…young brahman student. He once visited the Buddha in Sāvatthī, asking him various questions. The interview…

SuddhikabhāradvājaSuddhikaBhāradvāja

A brahmin who visited the Buddha at Jetavana and stated that a man can be purified only by knowledge of the…

…brahmin, one of the Bhāradvājas. Once, when he was performing Fire-rites on the banks of the Sundarikā, he looked round to see if there were…

…in Kosala, reputed to be efficacious in washing away sins. MN.i.39 There Sundarika Bhāradvāja held sacrifices in honour of Agni and met the…

…in Icchānaṅgala and in Manasākaṭa.

He was the teacher of Bhāradvāja, companion of Vāseṭṭha. Snp.p.115f. DN.i.235 MN.ii.202

…visited Piṇḍola Bhāradvāja to learn how young monastics curbed their passions, at which meeting Udena declared himself a follower of the…

VaṭajālikāyaṃDhavajālikā

A monastery on Sankheyyaka mountain in Mahisa country. A monk, named Uttara, once lived there and was visited by Sakka. AN.iv.162ff.

Sankheyyaka mountain in Mahisa3monastery

A sacrificial offering.

…who, with his friend Bhāradvāja, visited the Buddha and held discussions with him. These discussions are recorded in the Tevijja Sutta, the…

1. despises; underrates.
2. denies, repudiates.

of low or base birth; of lower character than one’s parents; an unworthy child.

adjective “born after” i.e. after the image of, resembling, taking after; esp. said of a son (putta), resembling his father, a worthy son Iti.64 (atijāta + opp. avajāta); Thag.827 (fig. following the …

1. to look ahead, to look before, to be cautious, to look after MN.i.557 (variant reading for apaciṇāti, where Ja.v.339 C. has avaloketi); Mil.398.
2. to look up to, to obtain permission from (acc.), …

adjective guilty, offending, criminal Ja.ii.117 (vāja˚); Mil.149 (issara˚), Mil.189 (aparādhikatā).

fr. aparādha, cp. Sk. aparādhin

to think little of, to underrate, despise Dhp.121 (= avajānāti Dhp-a.iii.16; variant reading avapamaññati).

appa + maññati

Assa¹

shoulder; in cpd. assapuṭa shoulder-bag, knapsack i.e. a bag containing provisions instr. assupuṭena with provisions. Later exegesis has interpreted this as a bag full of ashes, …

adjective well-born, well behaved, gentlemanly Iti.14 (opp avajāta).

ati + jāta, perhaps ati in sense of abhi, cp. abhijāta

Ava˚

prefix

I. Relation between ava & o

Phonetically the difference between ava & o is this, that; ava is the older form, whereas o represents a later development. Histor …

defeat Dhp-a.ii.228 (variant reading for T. ajaya).

ava + jaya, cp. apajita

1. to deny Vin.ii.85; AN.iii.164 = Pp.65.
2. (later) to despise Dhp-a.iii.16; Pv-a.175 (grd ˚jānitabba)-Of short stem-form ñā are found the foll grd. avaññeyya Pv-a.175, and with o˚: grd. oñāta …

adjective low-born, of low or base birth, fig of low character (opp. abhijāta) Snp.664 (= buddhassa avajātaputta Snp-a.479); Iti.63; Mil.359.

ava + jāta; cp. B.Sk. avajāta in meaning misborn, miscarriage

adjective despised, despicable Pv.iii.1#13 (= avaññeyya avajānitabba Pv-a.175).

to avaññā

adjective despised, treated with contempt Pv-a.135 (an˚); Sdhp.88, Sdhp.90.

pp. of avajānāti

adverb the prep. ava in adv. use, down, downward; in C. often expl^d. by adho. Rarely absolute, the only passage found so far being Snp.685 (avaṃ sari he went down, variant …

ignorance; the main root of evil and of continual rebirth (see paṭicca-samuppāda, cp. SN.ii.6, SN.ii.9, SN.ii.12; Snp.p.141 & many other passages) See on term; Cpd. 83 n. 3, 18 …

…Yamataggi, Angirasa Bhāradvāja, Vāseṭṭha, Kassapa, Bhagu Vin.i.245; DN.i.104; AN.iii.224; AN.iv.61; cp. Vv-a.265
■ f. brāhmaṇī…

flag, banner; mark, emblem, sign, symbol Vin.i.306 (titthiya˚: outward signs of); Vin.ii.22 (gihi˚); SN.i.42 SN.ii.280; AN.ii.51; AN.iii.84 sq. (panna˚); MN.i.139 (id.) AN.iii.149 (dhamma); Ja.i.52 (\ …

see gavaya.

(and gavaja) a species of ox, the gayal Ja.v.406. (˚ja = khagga) Mil.149; Dhs-a.331.

Sk. gavaya, cp. gavala, buffalo

mountain; as a rule only in cpds, by itself (poetical) only at Vism.206 (in enumⁿ of the 7 large mountains).

• -agga mountain top, in giraggasamajja Name of a festival c …

…(Yamadaggi) Angirasa, Bhāradvāja, Vāseṭṭha, Kassapa, Bhagu.

• -nisabha the first (lit. “bull”) among Saints,…

■ Instr. jātiyā (Snp.423) & jaccā (DN.ii.8; Ja.iii.395; Dhp.393); abl. jātiyā (SN.i.88) & jātito (by descent: DN.ii.8); loc. jātiyaṃ (Pv-a.10) & jātiyā (Pv-a.78).

1. birth, rebirth, possibility of …

1. a sword (often with dhanu, bow) at DN.i.7 (Dhp.i.89 = asi) as one of the forbidden articles of ornament (cp. BSk. khaḍga-maṇi Divy.147, one of the royal insignia)
   ■ khaggaṃ …

(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 …

mariner, sailor, skipper Mil.365.

Sk. nāvāja = Gr. ναυηγός, cp. Lat. navigo

Ocināti (ocinati)

1. = Sk. avacinoti, ava + ci¹ to gather, pluck, pick off Dhp-a.i.366; also in pp. ocita.
2. Sk. avacinoti or ˚ciketi ava + ci², cp. ap …

Ocināti (ocinati)

1. = Sk. avacinoti, ava + ci¹ to gather, pluck, pick off Dhp-a.i.366; also in pp. ocita.
2. Sk. avacinoti or ˚ciketi ava + ci², cp. ap …

Ohīyati & ohiyyati

1. to be left behind, to stay behind Ja.v.340 (avahīyati ohiyyati C.).
2. to stay behind, to fall out (in order to urinate or defecate); ger. ohīyitvā Vin.iv.2 …

Ohīyati & ohiyyati

1. to be left behind, to stay behind Ja.v.340 (avahīyati ohiyyati C.).
2. to stay behind, to fall out (in order to urinate or defecate); ger. ohīyitvā Vin.iv.2 …

adjective possessing strengthening qualities, giving strength. MN.i.480 SN.i.212 (so read for ovajaṁ; phrase ojavaṁ asecanakaṁ of Nibbāna, translated “elixir”) Thag.2, 196 (identical ojavantaṁ Thag-a …

to conquer, vanquish, subdue Ja.vi.222 (ojināmase).

Sk. avajayati, ava + ji

at SN.i.212 read ojava.

to run (away) Vin.iii.145 (ubbijjati uttasati p.); AN.ii.33 (yena vā tena vā palayanti); Snp.120; Ja.ii.10; Dhp-a.i.193; Pv-a.253 Pv-a.284 (= dhāvati)
ppr palāyanto SN.i.209 = Thig.248 = Pv.ii. …

fallen, gone, gone down; also: creeping only in foll. compounds:

• -ga a snake Thag.429 (˚inda chief of snake-demons) Ja.v.166; Mil.23.
• -gandha with gone down (i.e. deterio …

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 …

to wander forth, go about, perambulate; ppr. pavajamāna SN.i.42 (but may be pavajjamāna “being predicated” in play of word with act pavadanto in same verse).

pa + vraj

…vāja-peyya [Vedic vāja sacrificial food] as Bdhgh explains it at Snp-a.322 (= vājam ettha pivanti; variant reading vāja˚), thus…

one who seeks alms SN.iii.93 = Iti.89; cp. Np. ˚bhāradvāja Snp-a.346, Snp-a.514, Snp-a.570.

etym. unclear

…pukkaśa pulkasa. The “Paulkāsa” are mentioned as a mixed caste at Vājasaneya Saṃhitā 30, 17 (cp. Zimmer, Altind Leben 217)

(rajas) & Raja neuter

1. Forms.
   ■ Both rajo & rajaṃ occur as noun & acc. sg., e.g. rajo at DN.ii.19; Snp.207, Snp.334; Dhs.617; rajaṃ at Snp.275; Iti.83; once (in verse) *[rajo](/define/rajo …

tamo darkness (syn. andhakāra, opp. joti), lit. as well as fig. (mental darkness = ignorance or state of doubt); one of the dark states of life & rebirth; adj. living in one of the d …

adjective to be despised, contemptible, only in stock-phrase “daharo na uṇṇātabbo na paribhotabbo” SN.i.69; Snp.p.93; Snp-a.424 (= na avajānitabbo, na nīcaṃ katvā jānitabbo ti). In same connection a …

see rajo-vajalla.

to go, proceed, get to (acc.), lit. to turn to (cp. vṛj, vṛṇakti, pp. vṛkta, which latter coincides with vṛtta of vṛt in P. vatta: see vatta¹ & cp. vajjeti to avoid, …

Vajjati¹

to turn etc.; only as Pass. form vajjati vajjeti* (*varjayati) to avoid, to abstain from, renounce Sdhp.10, Sdhp.11, Sdhp.200. Cp. pari˚ …

Vambheti & Vamheti

to treat with contempt despise, revile, scold; usually either combined with khuṃseti or opposed to ukkaṃseti, e.g. Vin.ii.18; Vin.iv.4; MN.i.200 (= Snp.132 a …

Vambheti & Vamheti

to treat with contempt despise, revile, scold; usually either combined with khuṃseti or opposed to ukkaṃseti, e.g. Vin.ii.18; Vin.iv.4; MN.i.200 (= Snp.132 a …

indeclinable

1. part of comparison: like, as; stands for iva (usually in verse after ā: Snp.420 (jātimā v.); Pv.i.8#5 (vārinā v.); or o Snp.580 (vajjho v.), Snp.818 (k …

…may be a distortion of vājana, although the latter is never found as variant reading It is at all events a singular expression. BR give…

1. amiable speech (vācā + peyya = piya) Ja.vi.575 (= piyavacana C.)
2. spelling for vājapeyya (q.v.).

…Vedic vājapeya; see Macdonell, Vedic Mythology pp. 131 sq., 155, quoting Weber, Vājapeya; Banerjea, *Public…

adjective noun possessed of strength or swiftness; a horse, stallion Dāvs i.31; Dāvs v.35 (sita˚), 53 (sasi-paṇḍara˚) Vv-a.278.

fr. vāja

adjective feathered (of an arrow) MN.i.429.

pp. of vājeti: see vāja

wind. There exists a common distinction of winds into 2 groups: “internal and “external” winds, or the ajjhattikā vāyo-dhātu (wind category), and the bāhirā. They are discussed at Vb.84, quoted a …

…purisamedha sammāpāsa, vāja-peyya. Thus mentioned at SN.i.76 & Snp.303. 2. In Buddhistic sense: gift alms-giving, charity; expense or…

1. to go into, to or towards Ja.iii.434; Ja.iv.49, Ja.iv.107.
2. to return, come back Ja.v.24, Ja.v.479.

ā + vajati, vraj