…In contrast pair avīci (adj.) uninterrupted, without an interval; savīci with periods, in defⁿ of…

…but to a period of time in Avīci.

One term of Ababa is equal to four hundred of Abbuda; an Abbuda being reckoned as the time taken to remove…

A period of suffering in Avīci, the time taken to remove twenty cartloads of tila-seeds, taking one seed at the end of each century. Snp.p.126…

…list. Snp.p.126 It is the name given to a period of suffering in Avīci and is equivalent in duration to twenty Ababā. SN.i.152

5hell

One of the villages near Vesāli visited by the Buddha on his last tour D.ii.123. It was between Bhandagāma and Bhoganagara, on the road from Vesāli to Kusināra. This was evidently the road which led f …

…above, the reference to Avīci is in connection with a tremendous growth of population which will occur in Jambudīpa in a future age. Houses…

One of the Avīci hells. SN.i.150 Snp.126

5hell

A nun, well known for her quarrelsome propensities. She was a friend of Thullanandā, during whose absence the other nuns once expelled Caṇḍakālī from their midst. This act was greatly resented by Thul …

…and he was swallowed up in Avīci.

Only once is mention made AN.iv.402f. of the text of a sermon by Devadatta. Candikāputta reports this to…

A river in Avīci, flowing alongside the Asipattavana. MN.iii.185

5river

A village in the vicinity of Bhaddiyanagara. During his last tour the Buddha crossed the river at Pāṭaligāma, went on to Koṭigāma, and remained in that village preaching to the monks. Hearing that the …

A hell; it is a period of suffering in Avīci, equal to twenty Uppalakā. SN.i.152 Snp.p.126

5hell

A hell, or a period of suffering in Avīci. SN.i.102 Snp.126

5hell

kétely, bizonytalanság

the name of a hell, or place in Avīci, where one suffers for an ababa of years.

…great number (of years) 2. (m.) the name of a hell, or place in Avīci, where one suffers for an abbuda of years.

the name of a hell, or place in Avīci, where one suffers for an ahaha of years.

not deceitful, not false; not wild, not vicious

able to discern the goal or what is beneficial

(~antī)n.

thinks or ponders over; meditates upon

thinks or ponders over; meditates upon

investigates; examines.

the name of a hell or place in Avīci (where one suffers for an aṭaṭa (high number) of years).

duṭṭha¹

pp mfn corrupt; spoilt; sullied.

duṭṭha²

pp. mfn. & masculine bearing ill-will; inimical; angered; malignant; (of animals) enraged; vicious; a rogue, a villain.

…or Nymphaea pubescens). 2. (m(fn).) the name of a hell or place in Avīci (where one suffers for a kumuda of years).

kūṭa¹

masculine n.

1. (m.n.) a prominence or projection; a horn; a summit, a peak.
2. (n.) the peak of a roof, the roof-plate or roofridge into which the ends of the rafters are inserted …

an obstacle, a hindrance (esp. five: kāmacchanda, vyāpāda, thīnamiddha, uddhaccakukkucca, vicikicchā); being a hindrance, which is an obstacle.

approach, way or means of approach; access; vicinity, neighborhood; access; surrounding space; precincts; environs.

1. the blue lotus (Nymphaea caerulea); any lotus.
2. the name of a hell or place in Avīci (where one suffers for an uppala of years).

the name of a hell or place in Avīci (where one suffers for an uppala(ka) of years).

1. (mfn.) near, near at hand; close together; ~aṃ, adv., near.
2. (n.)
   1. nearness, vicinity; loc. ~e, adv., near, nearby; in the vicinity (of)

Anusaya: The 7 ‘latent tendencies’, hidden inclinations, or latent liabilities are:

1: The latent tendency to sense-greed kāma-rāga samyojana,
2: The latent tendency to aversion *patigh …

Ariya-puggala: or simply Ariya: Noble Ones, noble persons:
The 8, Ariya = Noble Ones are those who have realized one of the 8 stages of Nobility, i.e. the 4 supra-mundane paths magga …

…bounded beneath by the Avīci hell and above by the paranimmitavasavatti heaven (see: deva ), being therein included, to wit: the groups…

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 …

Avīci: is the name of one of the most frightful hells niraya.

…pacceka-nirayo n’ atthi, Avīcimhi yeva abbuda-gaṇanāya paccanokāso pana abbudo nirayo ti vutto; see also Kindred Sayings p. 190);…

only at SN.iii.12, where variant reading is aviciṇṇa, which is to be preferred. See viciṇṇa.

to think upon, to meditate, consider SN.i.203 (variant reading for anuvicinteti).

anu + cinteti

to wander about, stroll roam through, explore DN.i.235; Ja.ii.128; Ja.iii.188; Pv-a.189 (= anupariyāti)
caus -vicāreti to think over (lit. to make one’s mind wander over), to meditate ponder (cp …

one who examines, an examiner Mil.365.

fr. anu + vicināti

to think or ponder over, to meditate DN.ii.203; SN.i.203 (yoniso ˚cintaya, imper “marshall thy thoughts in ordered governance” Mrs. Rh. DN variant reading anucintaya); Thag.747; Dhp.364; Iti.82 (dhamm …

…Sdhp.194; Pgdp.5 sq. etc etc. 2. disintegration, decay Vism.449 (a. jarā nāma).

B.Sk. avīci a + vīci (?) no intermission, or no pleasure…

…& Avīci & cp. Vism.56 sq.)
■ In comp^n. both ayo˚ & aya˚ occur as bases.

1. ayo˚
   • -kapāla…

…& Avīci & cp. Vism.56 sq.)
■ In comp^n. both ayo˚ & aya˚ occur as bases.

1. ayo˚
   • -kapāla…

…“heaven” as opposed to Avīci, the lowest hell; thus at Ja.iv.182; Ja.vi.354; Mil.336. -aṅga constituent of becoming,…

…Snp-a.290 (Avīci-ādi-˚ niraya).

• -kara causing division or dissension Vin.ii.7; Vin.iii.173 Vin.v.93 (cp….

an almsman, a mendicant, a Buddhist monk or priest, a bhikkhu.
■ nom. sg. bhikkhu freq. passim; Vin.iii.40 (vuḍḍhapabbajita); AN.i.78 (thera bh., an elder bh.; and nava bh. …

1. a drop, usually a drop of water Snp.392, Snp.812 (uda˚); Ja.i.100; Vism.531 (madhu˚) Thag-a.281; Pv-a.98 (udaka˚).
2. a spot (cp. SBE xvii.155) Vism.222 (˚vicitvā gāvī a spotted cow).
3. (as adj. …

…(= DN-a.i.270); of Avīciniraya Iti.86; Ja.iv.3; Pv.i.10#13; cp. Catudvāra Jātaka (No. 439; Ja.iv.1 sq.); -nahuta…

Cha & Chaḷ

(cha in composition effects gemination of consonant, e.g. chabbīsati = cha + vīsati, chabbaṇṇa cha + vaṇṇa, chaḷ only before vowels in compound chaḷanga, chaḷ-abhiññā) the number six.

…

metre, metrics, prosody, esp. applied to the Vedas Vin.ii.139 (chandaso buddhavacanaṃ āropeti to recite in metrical form, or acc. to Bdhgh. in the dialect of the Vedas cp. Vin. Texts iii.150) SN.i.3 …

Cha & Chaḷ

(cha in composition effects gemination of consonant, e.g. chabbīsati = cha + vīsati, chabbaṇṇa cha + vaṇṇa, chaḷ only before vowels in compound chaḷanga, chaḷ-abhiññā) the number six.

…

to cut off, to destroy, to remove, both lit. (bandhanaṃ, pāsaṃ, pasibbakaṃ, jīvaṃ, gīvaṃ, sīsaṃ hatthapāde, etc.) and fig. (taṇhaṃ, mohaṃ, āsavā saṃyojanāni, vicikicchaṃ, vanathaṃ, etc.) Freq. in …

usually tikicchati to reflect, think over, intend aim at. Pp. cikicchita Kp-a.188 (in explⁿ of vicikicchita q.v.).

Sk. cikitsati, Desid. of cit, cinteti. Cp. vicikicchā

Citta¹ & Citra

adjective variegated, manifold, beautiful; tasty, sweet, spiced (of cakes), Ja.iv.30 (geṇḍuka); Dhp.171 (rājaratha); Vv.47#9; Pv.ii.11#2 (aneka˚); Pv.iv.3#13 (pūvā = madhurā …

Dhamma¹

masculine & rarely neuter constitution etc.

A. Definitions by Commentators

Bdhgh gives a fourfold meaning of the word dhamma (at DN-a.i.99; Dhp-a.i.22), viz. 1 guṇe ( …

to seek, to search for, to wish for, strive after Dhp.146 (gavessatha), Dhp.153; Thag.183; Cnd.2, Cnd.70, Cnd.427; Ja.i.4, Ja.i.61; Mil.326; Pv-a.187, Pv-a.202 (aor. gavesi = vicini); Bdhd 53 In Nd …

1. (n.) seizing, seizure, grip (cp. gaha): canda˚ suriya˚ an eclipse (lit. the moon, etc., being seized by a demon) DN.i.10 (= DN-a.i.95: Rāhu candaṃ gaṇhāti). Esp. applied to the sphere of the mind …

1. hand DN.i.124; AN.i.47; Snp.610; Ja.vi.40
   ■ forearm Vin.iv.221; of animals SN.v.148; Ja.i.149; -pāda hand and foot MN.i.523; AN.i.47; Ja.ii.117; Pv-a.241; Dhp-a.iv.7. sahassa˚; thousand …

Iti (ti)

indeclinable emphatic deictic particle “thus”. Occurs in both forms iti & ti, the former in higher style (poetry), the latter more familiar in conversational prose. The function of “iti” is …

1. the unlucky die (see akkha); “the dice were seeds of a tree called the vibhītaka… An extra seed was called the kali” (Dial. ii.368 n. DN.ii.349; Ja.i.380; Dhp.252 (= Dhp-a.iii …

1. adj. causing to shake Dhp-a.i.84, trembling Kacc.271.
2. (nt)
   1. an earthquake Ja.i.26 Ja.i.47.
   2. tremor (of feelings) Ja.iii.163.

• -rasa (adj.) “whose essence is to tr …

adverb dubit. interr. part.

1. how; with ind. pres. Pv-a.6 (k. puriso paṭilabhati), or with fut. & cond. Ja.i.222; Ja.ii.159 (k. tattha gamissāmi); Ja.vi.500; Pv-a.54 (na dassāmi)
2. why, for what …

1. with loc.: to be uncertain, unsettled, to doubt (syn. vicikicchati with which always combined). Kaṅkhati vicikicchati dvīsu mahāpurisa-lakkhaṇesu DN.i.106 is in doubt a …

1. doubt, uncertainty SN.i.181; SN.iii.203 (dukkhe k. etc.; cp. Cnd.1); Snp.541, Snp.1149; ˚ṃ vinayati Snp.58, Snp.559, Snp.1025; k. pahīyati Pts.ii.62; combined with vimati: DN.i. …

to be troubled, to be wearied, to suffer Thag.962 (w. acc. of obj.); usually with kilamati: k˚ kāyo kilamati Thag.1073. Used in a play of words with vicikicchati by Bdhgh at Dhs-a.354 as “ārammaṇaṃ n …

Kilesa & klesa

stain, soil, impurity, fig. affliction; in a moral sense, depravity, lust. Its occurrence in the Piṭakas is rare; in later works, very frequent, where it is approx. tantamount to our t …

Kilesa & klesa

stain, soil, impurity, fig. affliction; in a moral sense, depravity, lust. Its occurrence in the Piṭakas is rare; in later works, very frequent, where it is approx. tantamount to our t …

…Ja.i.67.

• -simbalī Name of a tree (in Avīci) Sdhp.194.

cp. Sk. koṭi & kūṭa²

…an instrument of torture in Avīci Sdhp.195. 2. Kāla time, etc.

1. Morning: kāle early Pv.ii.9#41 (= pāto Pv-a.128), kālassa in the…

…extending from the Avīci-niraya to the heaven of the Paranimmita-vasavatti-devas SN.ii.151; Thag.181; also 2sensual pleasures, desires,…

…an instrument of torture in Avīci Sdhp.195. 2. Kāla time, etc.

1. Morning: kāle early Pv.ii.9#41 (= pāto Pv-a.128), kālassa in the…

adjective black, stained; in enumeration of colours at Dhs.617 (of rūpa) with nīla, pītaka, lohitaka odāta, k˚, mañjeṭṭha; of a robe AN.ii.241; f. kāḷikā Vv-a.103
■ (nt.) a black spot, a stain, als …

…worlds Ja.i.44 (v.253: Avīcimhi na uppajjanti, tathā lokantaresu ca). -antarika (scil. Niraya) a group of Nirayas or…

… * -avīci the great Purgatory Avīci, freq.

• -isi in poetry for mahesi at Ja.v.321. *…

…Ja.i.221; Pv-a.14 (Avīcimhi), Pv-a.67 (petesu), Pv-a.73 (amaccakule)
pp nibbatta (q.v.). Caus….

surety, reliance, trust SN.ii.84; SN.v.221 (= nikkankhā); Vv-a.85 (= ekaṃsikā).

nis + vicikicchā

…Avīcimahāniraya (see Avīci). Names of other purgatories occur frequently in the Jātaka collection, e.g. Kākola Ja.vi.247; Khuradhāra…

see nibbicikicchā; MN.i.260.

, occasionally masculine an obstacle, hindrance, only as tt. applied to obstacles in an ethical sense & usually enumerated or referred to in a set of 5 (as pañca nīvaraṇāni and p. āvaraṇāni), viz. *kā …

Pacinati & Pacināti

1. to pick, pluck, gather, take up, collect, accumulate SN.iii.89 SN.iv.74 (dukkhaṃ = ācināti p. 73); Dhp.47, Dhp.48 (pupphāni ocinati Dhp-a.i.366); Ja.iii.22; fut. pacinissati Dh …

Pacinati & Pacināti

1. to pick, pluck, gather, take up, collect, accumulate SN.iii.89 SN.iv.74 (dukkhaṃ = ācināti p. 73); Dhp.47, Dhp.48 (pupphāni ocinati Dhp-a.i.366); Ja.iii.22; fut. pacinissati Dh …

(˚jahāti) to give up, renounce, forsake, abandon, eliminate, let go, get rid of; freq as synonym of jahati (see Nd ii.under jahati with all forms). Its wide range of application with reference to all …

running about, fear, hesitation, doubt, always combined with āsappanā and only found with ref. to the exegesis of “doubt” (vicikicchā or kankhā) Cnd.1; Dhs.425 (cp. Dhs trsl.116 and Dhs-a.260); DN\ …

…next birth in., e.g. Avīci Ja.iii.454; Ja.iv.159; duggati˚ Pv-a.32; devaloka˚ Ja.i.218 brahmaloka˚ Ja.iii.396; Mil.234; sagga˚…

…next birth in., e.g. Avīci Ja.iii.454; Ja.iv.159; duggati˚ Pv-a.32; devaloka˚ Ja.i.218 brahmaloka˚ Ja.iii.396; Mil.234; sagga˚…

investigation Snp.1021; Thag.593; Pp.25; Ne.3, Ne.87.

fr. pa + vicinati

to investigate, to examine MN.iii.85; SN.v.68, SN.v.262; Ne.21; Snp-a.545. grd. paviceyya Ja.iv.164, & pavicetabba Ne.21.

pa + vicinati

adjective noun masculine

Cases:
■ gen. dat. pañcannaṃ,
■ instr. abl pañcahi,
■ loc. pañcasu;
■ often used in compositional form pañca˚ (cp. Ved. pañcāra with 5 spokes RV i.164¹³; G …

…aya˚ iron soil (of Avīci Dhp-a.i.148. In compound both paṭhavī˚ & pathavi˚.

• -ojā (paṭhavojā) sap or…

…is attached to phuṭa in Avīci passage AN.i.159 (Avīci maññe phuṭo ahosi), cp. Anāgata Vaṃsa (J.P.T.S. 1886, v.39) & remarks of…

man (as representative of the male sex, contrasted to itthi woman, e.g. at AN.iii.209; AN.iv.197; Ja.i.90; Ja.v.72; Pv-a.51). Definitions of the C. are “puriso nāma manussa-puriso …

…MN.i.513 sq.; DN.i.8; DN-a.i.91

• -ṭṭhaka situated in the ocean Ja.vi.158.
• -vīci a wave of the ocean Vism.63.

cp….

vicinity, presence; santikaṃ into the presence of, towards Ja.i.91, Ja.i.185; santikā from the presence of, from Ja.i.43, Ja.i.83, Ja.i.189; santike in the presence of, before …

doubt AN.ii.24; Cnd.660 (= vicikicchā etc.); Mil.94; Dhs.425.

cp. Vedic saṃśaya

bond, fetter SN.iv.163 etc.; especially the fetters that bind man to the wheel of transmigration Vin.i.183; SN.i.23; SN.v.241, SN.v.251; AN.i.264 AN.iii.443; AN.iv.7 sq. (diṭṭhi˚); MN.i.483; Dhp.370; …

Iti (ti)

indeclinable emphatic deictic particle “thus”. Occurs in both forms iti & ti, the former in higher style (poetry), the latter more familiar in conversational prose. The function of “iti” is …

one who has reached the other shore (always fig.) gone through, overcome, one who has attained Nibbāna. Ogha˚ gone through the great flood SN.i.3, SN.i.142; Snp.178, Snp.823, Snp.1082, Snp.1101, Snp.1 …

1. approach, access Vin.ii.120, Vin.ii.152; Vin.iv.304; Ja.i.83, Ja.i.172; Dhs-a.328 (phal˚).
2. habit practice, conduct Vin.ii.20 (dassan˚); Snp-a.140 (id.); Ja.iii.280.
3. way, means application, …

lifted out or up Vism.63 (samuddavīcīhi thale ussārita; variant reading ussādita).

pp. of ussāreti²

appearance etc (lit. “cover, coating”). There is a considerable fluctuation of meaning, especially between meanings 2, 3, 4. One may group as follows.

1. colour Snp.447 (meda˚); SN.v.216 (chavi˚ of t …

adjective doubting, doubtful AN.ii.174 (kankhin +); SN.iii.99 (id.); MN.i.18; Snp.510.

fr. vicikicchā

to go or move about in (loc.), to walk (a road = acc.), to wander Snp.444 (raṭṭhā raṭṭhaṃ vicarissaṃ, fut.), Snp.696 (dhamma-maggaṃ); Mnd.201, Mnd.263; Pv.iii.7#3 (aor. vicari); Dhp-a.i.66; Pv-a.4, …

search, investigation, examination SN.iii.96 (vicayaso, i.e. thoroughly); Pp.25; Mil.340 (dhamma˚); Ne.1, Ne.2, Ne.10; Dhs-a.147; Sdhp.466. For dhamma˚ see sambojjhanga.

fr. vi + *[ci](/define/ci …

lit. “dis-reflect,” to be distracted in thought, i.e. to doubt, hesitate DN.i.106; SN.ii.17, SN.ii.50, SN.ii.54; SN.iii.122, SN.iii.135; Ja.iv.272 (2 sg. vicikicchase) Snp-a.451; DN-a.i.275
pp *[ …

see *ve*˚.

doubt Pv.iv.1#37.

pp. of vicikicchati

doubt, perplexity, uncertainty (one of the nīvaraṇas) DN.i.246; DN.iii.49, DN.iii.216, DN.iii.234 DN.iii.269; SN.i.99; SN.iii.106 sq. (dhammesu v. doubt about the precepts); SN.iv.350; AN.iii.292, AN. …

discrimination Vism.162.

fr. vicinati

(˚cināti)

1. to investigate, examine, discriminate SN.i.34 (yoniso vicine dhammaṃ); AN.iv.3 sq (id.); Snp.658, Snp.933; Tha-ap.42; Ja.vi.373; Mnd.398; Ne.10 Ne.22 (grd. vicetabba), Ne.25 sq.; Mil.29 …

to think, consider Snp.1023; Mhvs.4, Mhvs.28 (vicintiya, ger.); Mhvs.17, Mhvs.38.

vi + cinteti

in phrase -kāḷaka bhatta rice from which the black grains have been separated DN.i.105; MN.ii.8; DN-a.i.274; as vicita-bhatta in same sense at Ja.iv.371.

pp. of vi + ci to gather

(& ˚citra) adjective various, variegated, coloured, ornamented, etc. Ja.i.18, Ja.i.83; Pv.ii.1#9; Vv.64#10 (citra); Mil.338, Mil.349; Vv-a.2, Vv-a.77; Sdhp.92, Sdhp.245- vicitra-kathika eloquent …

thought out; in neg. a˚; not thought out; reading however doubtful, better to be taken as adhiciṇṇa, i.e. procedure, method DN.i.8; MN.ii.3 = SN.iii.12 (vi˚ as variant reading)
■ DN-a.i.91 reads …

1. to make go round, to pass round, to distribute Pv-a.272 (salākaṃ).
2. to think (over) SN.v.156 (vitakketi +).
3. to investigate, examine, test Ja.ii.413; Ja.iii.258; Vv-a.336 (a˚ to omit examini …

distress (?), in stock phrase at AN.v.156, AN.v.158, AN.v.160, AN.v.162 (variant reading at all pass. vicina).

doubtful

change (for the worse), reverse, vicissitude DN.iii.216 (˚dukkhatā); MN.i.457 (see [as “disappointment”](/define/as “disappointment”)); SN.ii.274; SN.iii.8; SN.iv.7 sq., SN.iv.67 sq. AN.ii.177 (˚dhamm …

wood, grove DN.i.248 (doubtful; vv.ll. vijina, vivada, vivana) Tha-ap.51 (vv.ll. vivana, vicina; C. vivana & vipina); Dāvs iv.39; Pv-a.81 (read vicitta!).

cp. *Sk. vipina, Halāyudha 2, 55

manifold desire, greediness, avarice Dhs-a.375; Ne.11 (where explⁿ “vivicchā nāma vuccati vicikicchā”). See also veviccha.

Desid. of vid, c …

…heṭṭhā pi yāva Avīci upari yāva Akaniṭṭha-bhavanaṃ, tāva addasa Vism.392; yāva naṃ ānemi tāva idh’ eva tiṭṭha…

practiced, performed, (habitually) indulged in MN.i.372 (kamma, cp. Mil.226 and the expl^n. of āciṇṇaka kamma as “chronic karma at Cpd. 144); SN.iv.419; AN.v.74 sq.; Ja.i.81; DN-a.i.91 (f …