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vaṇa, 768 találat.

vana →

pts

…[cp. Vedic vanaspati Prk. vaṇapphai] “lord of the forest,” a forest tree; as vanappati only at Vin.iii.47; otherwise…

vaṇa →

pts

…Pv-a.80 Sdhp.395. On vaṇa in similes see J.P.T.S. 1907, 132.

vāna →

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Vāna1

neuter sewing, stuffing (of a couch) DN-a.i.86; Dhp-a.i.234 (mañca˚).

fr. 2: see vāyati1

Vāna2

neuter lit. “jungle” (cp. …

amalakīvana →

dppn

A grove in Cātumā where the Buddha preached the Kūṭadanta Sutta.

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ambapālivana →

dppn

The grove presented by Ambapālī to the Buddha and the Order. It was in Vesāli and was given to the Buddha during his last tour in that town, at the conclusion of the meal to which Ambapālī had invited …

ambapālī →

dppn

AmbapālīAmbapālikā

A courtesan of Vesāli. She became a devout follower of the Buddha, and building a vihāra in her own garden, gave it to him and the Order. This was during the Buddha’s last visit …

ambāṭakavana →

dppn

AmbāṭakavanaAmbālavana

A grove at Macchikāsaṇḍa, belonging to Cittagahapati. It became the residence of large numbers of monks, and discussions often took place there between Cittagahapati and the re …

andhavana →

dppn

A grove to the south of Sāvatthī, one gāvuta away from the city. It was well guarded and monks and nuns used to resort there in search of solitude. The Bhikkhunī Saṃyutta contains stories of nuns wh …

anugāra →

dppn

An eminent wandering ascetic. He is mentioned as living in the Paribbājakārāma in the Moranivāpa in Veḷuvana near Rājagaha. He was probably one of the company who was with Sakuludāyi when the Buddha c …

anuruddha →

dppn

First cousin of the Buddha and one of his most eminent disciples. He was the son of the Sākyan Amitodana and brother of Mahānāma. When members of other Sākyan families had joined the Order of their di …

anurādha →

dppn

An Elder. Once when he was staying in a forest hut in the Mahāvana in Vesāli, near to where the Buddha was, certain wandering ascetics came to him and asked him whether or not a Tathāgata exists after …

anāthapiṇḍika →

dppn

A banker (seṭṭhi) of Sāvatthī who became famous because of his unparalleled generosity to the Buddha. His first meeting with the Buddha was during the first year after the Enlightenment, in Rājagaha …

ariṭṭha →

dppn

…and had won wisdom and liberty.

Ariṭṭha3

A messenger of Vessavaṇa, employed by him to take his proclamations and publish…

asama →

dppn

A devaputta who once visited the Buddha at Veḷuvana, in the company of Sahali, Ninka, Ākoṭaka, Vetambarī and Mānava-Gāmiya.

They were disciples of different teachers and, standing before the Buddh …

asipattavana →

dppn

One of the tortures of purgatory. In the distance the grove appears as a mango grove, and when the inhabitants of purgatory enter, wishing to eat the mangoes, leaves which are sharp like swords fall o …

añjanavana →

dppn

AñjanavanaAñcanavana

A garden at Sāketa. In it was a deer park where the Buddha used to stay. On one such occasion Kakudha came to see him, SN.i.54 and also the wanderer Kuṇḍaliya, SN.v.73 who lived …

añjanāvaniya →

dppn

He dwelt in the Añjanavana in a small hut, and there he became Awakened. Thag.55

aṅgulimāla →

dppn

AṅgulimālaAhiṃsakaGaggaMantāniputta

A robber and murderer who was converted by the Buddha in the twentieth year of his ministry, and who later became an arahant. MN86

As a result of his deeds whole …

baka →

dppn

A Brahmā. When the Buddha was once staying at Ukkaṭṭha in the Subhagavana, he read the thoughts of Baka, who had conceived the idea that this world was permanent and free from decay and death; and the …

bhaddiya →

dppn

Bhaddiya1

An anāgāmī, one of seven persons who became arahants as soon as they were born in Avihā. SN.i.35 SN.i.60

Bhaddiya2Kāligodhāputta

Chief among monks of aristocratic …

bhaddāli →

dppn

When the Buddha, at Jetavana, laid down the rule that monks should eat one meal a day and that in the morning, Bhaddāli protested and refused to keep this rule because he said that, in so eating, he w …

bhaṇḍu →

dppn

BhaṇḍuBhaṇḍa

A colleague of Ānanda whom Kassapa reported to the Buddha at Veḷuvana for disputing with Abhiñjaka, colleague of Anuruddha. The Buddha sent for the disputants and rebuked them for their …

bhesakalāvana →

dppn

A grove in the Bhagga country. It contained a Deer Park wherein the Buddhastayed, on Suṃsumāragiri. Nearby was the house in which lived Nakulapitā and Nakulamātā. AN.ii.61 AN.iii.295 SN.iii.1 SN.iv.11 …

bhuñjatī →

dppn

Wife of Vessavaṇa and a devout follower of the Buddha. Once, when Sakka went to see the Buddha at the Salaḷāgāra, he found the Buddha engaged…

bhāradvāja →

dppn

Bhāradvāja1

A monk whose Theragāthā verses speak of the heroic roar of the conquerors. Thag.177–178

Bhāradvāja2

He was the eldest of a clan of Bhāradvājas living in Rājagaha a …

bimbisāra →

dppn

BimbisāraSeniya

King of Māgadha and patron of the Buddha.

According to the Pabbajā Sutta Snp.405ff. the first meeting between the Buddha and Bimbisāra took place in Rājagaha under the Paṇḍavapabba …

bodhi →

dppn

He lived at Suṃsumāragiri in the Bhagga country and built a palace called Kokanada. When the palace was completed, the Buddha was staying at Bhesakalāvana near by, and Bodhi sent a message by Sañjikāp …

bojjhā →

dppn

BojjhāBocchā

An eminent laywoman. The Aṅguttara Nikāya AN.iv.259 AN.iv.347 records a visit paid by her to the Buddha at Jetavana. The Buddha then preached to her on the uposatha and the advantages …

bāvarī →

dppn

A brahmin ascetic who went from Sāvatthī to Dakkhiṇāpatha and lived on the banks of the Godhāvarī in a hermitage which lay half in the territory of Assaka and half in that of Alaka.

He received the r …

cañcalikappa →

dppn

CañcalikappaCaṇḍalakappa

A locality in Kosala; it was the residence of Dhānañjāni and of Saṅgārava. The Buddha once paid a visit there and stayed in the Todeyya-ambavana. Saṅgārava went to see him, …

caṇḍa →

dppn

A headman of Sāvatthī. He came to see the Buddha at Jetavana and asked him why some people earned the reputation of being wrathful and others of being kindly. The Buddha explained that the one man giv …

cittapāṭali →

dppn

A tree in the Asurabhavana SN.v.238 which lives for a whole aeon.

cunda →

dppn

Cunda1

A worker in metals living in Pāvā. When the Buddha reached Pāvā on his way to Kusinārā, he stayed in Cunda’s Mango grove. There Cunda visited him and invited him and the monks to a …

cālā →

dppn

Cālā

It is said Thig.182–188 SN.i.132 that one day, when Cālā was meditating in the Andhavana, Māra visited her, asking her various questions and trying to tempt her.

cātuma →

dppn

A Sākiyan village containing a mote-hall; near it was the Amalakīvana where the Buddha once stayed and preached the Cātuma Sutta. MN.i.456f.

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devadatta →

dppn

A monk, a close relative of the Buddha, who split the Sangha, and attempted to overthrow the Buddha and have him murdered. In one passage in the Vinaya, Vin.ii.189 Devadatta is spoken of as Godhiputta …

devahita →

dppn

A brahmin of Sāvatthī. Once when the Buddha was ill with cramp and desired hot water Upavāna obtained from Devahita hot water and molasses, which he sent on a pingo by a serving man. Hot fomentations …

dāmali →

dppn

A devaputta who visits the Buddha at Jetavana and tells him that an arahant has to work hard for nothing. The Buddha points out to him that there is nothing left for an arahant to do. SN.i.47

dīghalaṭṭhi →

dppn

A devaputta who once visited the Buddha at the Kalandakanivāpa in Veḷuvana and spoke a verse. SN.i.52

ekapuṇḍarīka →

dppn

Ekapuṇḍarīka1

A monastery of the wanderers, the residence of Vacchagotta. MN.i.481f. It was near the Kūṭāgārasālā in the Mahāvana of Vesāli. The Buddha went there to see Vacchagotta, and …

erāvaṇa →

dppn

…Dhammika Sutta. Snp.379 Erāvaṇa is mentioned among the devas who visited the Buddha to pay him homage. He is also mentioned among the Nāgas…

esukārī →

dppn

A brahmin who visits the Buddha at Jetavana and asks him various questions on castes and their distinctions, from the point of view of their functions. The Buddha replies that birth’s invidious bar ha …

gajaṅgala →

dppn

GajaṅgalaKajaṅgalaKajaṅgalā

A township which formed the eastern boundary of the Middle Country. Beyond it was Mahāsālā. Vin.i.197 Once when the Buddha was staying in the Veḷuvana at Kajangala, the la …

ghoṭamukha →

dppn

A brahmin, probably of Pāṭaliputta. On coming to visit Benares, he saw Udena there in Khemiyambavana and had a conversation with him, recorded in the Ghoṭamukha Sutta. At the conclusion of the talk he …

gijjhakūṭa →

dppn

GijjhakūṭaVulture’s Peak

One of the five hills encircling Rājagaha. It was evidently a favourite resort of those who followed the religious life.

The Buddha seems to have been attracted by its solit …

gomagga →

dppn

A spot in Siṃsapāvana near Āḷavī. The Buddha once stayed there during the cold season and was visited by Hatthaka Āḷavaka. AN.i.136

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gomatakakandarā →

dppn

GomatakakandarāGomatakandarāGomatakaṇḍarā

A grotto some distance from Veḷuvana in Rājagaha. Monks coming to Rājagaha from afar were provided with lodging there, and Dabba Mallaputta was put in charge …

gosiṅgasālavanadāya →

dppn

Gosiṅgasālavanadāya1

A forest tract near Nādikā. Once, when Anuruddha, Nandiya and Kimbila were living there, they were visited by the Buddha, who came from Giñjakāvasatha. The result of t …

gundāvana →

dppn

GundāvanaKundāvanaGuṇḍāvanaKuṇḍāvana

A forest in Madhurā. Mahā Kaccāna stayed there and was visited by Avantiputta, king of Madhurā, to whom he preached the Madhurā Sutta, MN.ii.83f. and by the bra …

hatthaka →

dppn

Hatthaka1

A monk. He was a Sākyan and loved holding discussions with the heretics. When he suffered defeat at their hands, he would resort to falsehood and evasion, or would ask his oppone …

hiraññavatī →

dppn

A river, on the bank of which was the Upavattana Sālavana of the Mallas of Kusināra, where the Buddha died. DN.ii.137

Hirakinari1river

icchānaṅgalaka →

dppn

An upāsaka of Icchānaṅgala. Once he visited the Buddha at Jetavana after a long interval, and on being asked why he had been absent so long, he replied that he had been kept busy by various duties. …

jatilagāhī →

dppn

The name given to a bhikkhunī, who, so Ānanda tells Udāyī, came to see him at the Añjanavana in Sāketā. The nun asked him for what purpose the Buddha requested that samādhi should be practised and Āna …

jayasena →

dppn

A prince who once visited the novice Aciravata at Veḷuvana in Rājagaha and asked him to teach the Doctrine. Reluctantly the novice did so, but at the end of the exposition Jayasena declared that he wa …

jeta →

dppn

Jeta1

A prince. Owner of Jetavana, which he sold to Anāthapiṇḍika for eighteen crores. He then spent all that money on the erection of a gateway at the entrance, which he decorated with mu …

jetavana →

dppn

JetavanaJeta’s GroveAnāthapiṇḍaka’s ParkAnāthapiṇḍikassa ārāmaAnāthapiṇḍada’s Park

A park in Sāvatthī, in which was built the Anāthapiṇḍikārāma. When the Buddha accepted Anāthapiṇḍika’s invitation to …

jātiyāvana →

dppn

A grove near Bhaddiya. The Buddha, when once staying there, laid down a rule about the use of slippers by monks. Vin.i.189f. There the banker Meṇḍaka visited him and provided meals for him and the m …

jāṇussoṇi →

dppn

A great brahmin, ranking with eminent brahmins such as Caṅkī, Tārukkha, Pokkharasāti and Todeyya. Snp.p.115 He is mentioned as staying in Icchānaṅgala, MN.ii.196 where he evidently took part in the pe …

jīvakambavana →

dppn

A mango-grove in Rājagaha, belonging to Jīvaka, which he made over to the Buddha and his monks. He built a monastery in the grove, and there the Buddha stayed several times. On one such occasion Ajāt …

kajangala →

dppn

KajangalaKajangalā

A township which formed the eastern boundary of the Middle Country. Beyond it was Mahāsālā. Vin.i.197 Once when the Buddha was staying in the Veḷuvana at Kajangala, the lay followe …

kajaṅgalā →

dppn

A nun who lived in Kajangala. Once when the Buddha was residing in the Veḷuvana there, the inhabitants of the village went to her and asked her to explain in detail what the Buddha had taught them in …

kakkaṭa →

dppn

Kakkaṭa2

An eminent monk mentioned, with Cāla, Upacāla, Kaḷimbha, Nikata and Kaṭissaha, as staying with the Buddha at the Kūṭāgārasālā in Vesāli. When the Licchavis started coming there to …

kakudha →

dppn

Kakudha1Kakkaṭa

A lay disciple of the Buddha who dwelt at Nādikā. When the Buddha arrived at Nādikā on his last journey, Ānanda asked him what had happened to Kakudha, who was already dead …

kandarāyana →

dppn

KandarāyanaKundarāyana

A brahmin. He visited Mahā Kaccāna at the Gundavana near Madhurā and accused him of not paying due respect to elderly brahmins, but when Mahā Kaccāna preached to him he express …

kapilavatthu →

dppn

A city near the Himalaya, capital of the Sākiyan republic. The administration and judicial business of the city and all other matters of importance were discussed and decided in the Santhāgārasālā. DN …

kappāsika vanasaṇḍa →

dppn

Kappāsika VanasaṇḍaKappāsiya Vanasaṇḍa

A grove near Uruvelā. There the a group of men came across the Buddha while seeking for a woman who had run away with certain of their belongings. The Buddha pr …

karerikuṭikā →

dppn

A building in the Jetavana where the Mahāpadāna Sutta was taught. DN.ii.1ff.

Jetavana3building

karerimaṇḍalamāḷa →

dppn

A pavilion near the Karerikutikā, evidently a hall with a thatched roof supported by wooden pillars, but with no walls.DN.ii.1 The monks seem to have been in the habit of sitting out here and talking …

kassapa →

dppn

Kassapa1

One of the seven Buddhas mentioned in the Canon. DN.ii.7

Among those who attained arahantship under Kassapa is mentioned Gavesī, who, with his five hundred followers, strove alwa …

kassapakārāma →

dppn

KassapakārāmaKassapārāma

A monastery in Rājagaha, probably near Veḷuvana. It was here that Assaji stayed during his last illness, when the Buddha visited him to comfort him. SN.iii.125

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katamorakatissa →

dppn

KatamorakatissaKatamorakatissaka

One of the monks whom Devadatta incited to join him in stirring up discord among the Saṅgha, the others being Kokālika, Khaṇḍadevīputta and Samuddadatta Vin.ii.196 Vi …

kaḷimbha →

dppn

KaḷimbhaKalimma

One of the monks who lived in the Kūṭāgārasālā in Vesālī. Finding that the peace of the Mahāvana was being disturbed by the Licchavis who came to see the Buddha, he, with the other mo …

kaṇḍakīvana →

dppn

KaṇḍakīvanaKantakīvanaTikantakī

A grove near Sāketa. The conversation which took place there between Sāriputta and Moggallāna is recorded in the Padesa Sutta. SN.v.174f. A discussion which took pla …

kaṭissaha →

dppn

He was one of those who were staying with the Buddha at the Kūṭāgārasālā in Vesāli. When the Licchavis began to visit the Buddha in large numbers, they left the monastery and retired to places of soli …

kevaṭṭa →

dppn

Kevaṭṭa KevaḍḍhaKevaddha

A householder of Nāḷandā. Once when the Buddha was staying in the Pāvārika-ambavana at Nāḷandā, Kevaṭṭa visited him. The interview is recorded in the Kevaṭṭa Sutta. DN.i.211ff.

khema →

dppn

Khema1

A Khattiya in the time of Kakusandha Buddha. He gave alms to the Buddha and the monks and entertained the Order. DN.ii.7

Khema2

A devaputta who visited the Buddha at …

khemiyambavana →

dppn

A mango grove near Benares. Udena once stayed there and preached the Ghoṭamukha Sutta. MN.ii.157

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khārodakā →

dppn

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

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kimbila →

dppn

KimbilaKimilaKimmila

A Sākiyan of Kapilavatthu. He was converted with Bhaddiya and four other Sākyan nobles at Anupiya. Vin.ii.182 Kimbila seems to have maintained throughout his early friendship wit …

kisāgotamī →

dppn

Kisāgotamī

A nun who was declared chief among women disciples with respect to the wearing of coarse robes. AN.i.25 Gotamī was her name—she was called Kisā because of her thinness.

In her Therīgāthā …

kokanada →

dppn

The palace of Bodhirājakumāra, to which he invited the Buddha and the monks to a meal when the Buddha was staying at Bhesakalāvana; the palace was just completed. Vin.ii.127 Vin.iv.199 MN.ii.91

Bhesa …

kokālika →

dppn

KokālikaKokāliya

A monk, one of the chief partisans of Devadatta. Knowing the Buddha’s might, he was, at first, reluctant to join in Devadatta’s plot against him, but later allowed himself to be pers …

kosambī →

dppn

The capital of the Vatsas or Vaṃsas. In the time of the Buddha its king was Parantapa, and after him reigned his son Udena. Kosambī was evidently a city of great importance at the time of the Buddha f …

kumārakassapa →

dppn

Kumārakassapa

He was foremost among those who had the gift of varied and versatile discourse. AN.i.24 Once when Kumāra Kassapa was meditating in Andhavana a deva appeared before him, and asked him fi …

kusinārā →

dppn

The capital of the Mallas and the scene of the Buddha’s death. At that time it was a small city, “a branch-township with wattle-and-daub houses in the midst of the jungle,” and Ānanda was, at first …

kuṇḍadhānavana →

dppn

KuṇḍadhānavanaKuṇḍiṭṭhānaKuṇḍikāKuṇḍiyāKuṇhāna

It was while the Buddha was dwelling in this monastery that Suppavāsā gave birth to Sīvali, after prolonged labour pains, which only ceased after she re …

kuṇḍaliya →

dppn

A Paribbājaka who visits the Buddha at the Añjanavana in Sāketa. He asks the Buddha what profit comes from the Buddha’s way of living.

The conversation leads to a discussion of the bojjhangas, the sa …

kāmabhū →

dppn

A monk, evidently held in high esteem by his colleagues. He is mentioned as staying in Kosambī, in Ghosita Park, and as asking Ānanda certain questions, recorded in the Kāmabhū Sutta. SN.iv.165 Two ot …

kīṭāgiri →

dppn

A village of the Kāsis, on the road from Kāsi to Sāvatthī. It was the headquarters of the followers of Assaji and Punabbasu, who lived there, behaving in a shameless and wicked manner. A certain monk, …

kūṭāgārasālā →

dppn

A hall in the Mahāvana near Vesāli. The Buddha stayed there on several occasions, and in the books are found records of various eminent persons who visited him there and of his conversations with them …

lakuṇṭaka →

dppn

LakuṇṭakaBhaddiya

He was given the title of Lakuntaka (Dwarf) owing to his very small stature.

The Udāna Ud.vii.1 Ud.vii.2 makes reference to the admonitions of Sāriputta and to the Buddha’s joy whe …

laṭṭhivana →

dppn

LaṭṭhivanaLatthivanaLatthivanuyyāna

A grove to the southwest of Rājagaha. In it was the Supatiṭṭha cetiya, where the Buddha stayed during his first visit to Rājagaha from Gayāsīsa, after the Enlighte …

licchavī →

dppn

A powerful tribe of India in the time of the Buddha. They were certainly khattiyas, for on that ground they claimed a share of the Buddha’s relics. DN.ii.165

Their capital was Vesāli, and they form …

macchikāsaṇḍa →

dppn

A township in Kāsī, the residence, among others, of Citta-Gahapati. SN.iv.281

It contained the Ambāṭakavana, which Citta presented as a monastery for the monks, at the head of whom was Mahānāma.

S …

maddakucchi →

dppn

A park near Rājagaha, at the foot of Gijjhakūṭa. It was a preserve where deer and game could dwell in safety. When Devadatta, wishing to kill the Buddha, hurled a rock down Gijjhakūṭa, it was stopped …

madhurā →

dppn

MadhurāMathurā

The capital of Surasena, situated on the Yamunā. Its king, soon after the death of Bimbisāra, was Avantiputta, MN.ii.83 who, judging by his name, was probably related to the royal fami …

maghadevaambavana →

dppn

MaghadevaambavanaMakhādevaambavana

A mango grove in Mithilā where Makhādeva lived in meditation after retiring from household life.

This grove existed even in the time of the Buddha, and during his …

mahākaccāyana →

dppn

MahākaccāyanaKaccāyanaMahākaccānaKaccāna

One of the most eminent disciples of the Buddha, considered chief among expounders in full of the brief saying of the Buddha. AN.i.23 Several suttas illustrat …

mahākoṭṭhita →

dppn

MahākoṭṭhitaMahākotthitaKoṭṭhitaKotthita

One of the foremost disciples of the Buddha, ranked foremost among masters of analytical knowledge. AN.i.24 His Theragāthā verse speaks of contentment and sha …

mahāmoggallāna →

dppn

MahāmoggallānaMoggallānaKolita

The second of the Chief Disciples of the Buddha. He and Sāriputta went forth as disciples of Sañjaya. After some time, Sāriputta, wandering about in Rājagaha, met Assaj …

mahānāma →

dppn

Mahānāma1

A Sākiyan rājā, son of Amitodana; he was elder brother of Anuruddha and cousin of the Buddha. When the Sākiyan families of Kapilavatthu sent their representatives to join the Ord …

mahāpajāpatī →

dppn

Mahāpajāpatī GotamīPajāpatī

An eminent bhikkhunī and the step-mother of the Buddha. She raised the Buddha as her own child after the death of his mother.

She is chiefly remembered as the first bhik …

mahāvana →

dppn

Mahāvana1

A wood near Vesāli, in which the Kūṭāgārasālā was located.

Vesāli3parkMahāvana2

A wood near Kapilavatthu. In this wood was preached the Mahāsamaya Sutta and the Madh …

mallā →

dppn

The name of a people and their country.

The country is included in the sixteen Great Nations of the Buddha’s time. The kingdom, at that time, was divided into two parts, having their respective capit …

migalandika →

dppn

MigalandikaMigaladdhika

An undesirable monk. When the Buddha had once been preaching to the monks in Mahāvana in Vesāli regarding the defilement and filth of the body, and had retired into solitude, …

moranivāpa →

dppn

A grove in Veḷuvana at Rājagaha. It contained a Paribbājakārāma, the resort of recluses of various denominations. The Udumbarika Sīhanāda, the Mahā Sakuladāyi and the Culla Sakūladāyi Suttas were prea …

moriyā →

dppn

A khattiya clan of India. Among those claiming a share of the Buddha’s relics were the Moriyas of Pipphalivana. They came rather late and had to be satisfied with a share of the ashes. DN.ii.166

moḷiyasīvaka →

dppn

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 …

mukheluvana →

dppn

A grove in Kajaṅgalā. It was there that the Buddha preached the Indriyabhāvanā Sutta. MN.iii.298

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nakulamātā →

dppn

Wife of Nakulapitā. They were householders of Suṃsumāragiri in the Bhagga-country. When the Buddha visited the village and stayed at Bhesakalāvana, they went to see him. They immediately fell at his …

nakulapitā →

dppn

Husband of Nakulamātā. They were householders of Suṃsumāragiri in the Bhagga-country. When the Buddha visited the village and stayed at Bhesakalāvana, they went to see him. They immediately fell at h …

nandaka →

dppn

Nandaka1

Once, at the Buddha’s request, he preached a sermon to the nuns; on the first day they became sotāpannas, and, on the second, five hundred of them attained arahantship. MN.iii.270 …

nandana →

dppn

Nandana1

A devaputta who visited the Buddha at Sāvatthī and asked him questions regarding virtue, wisdom, etc. The Buddha answered them, and he went away satisfied. SN.i.62

Nandana

nandiya →

dppn

Nandiya1

He belonged to a Sākiyan family of Kapilavatthu, and was called Nandiya because his birth brought bliss. He left the world at the same time as Anuruddha, Kimbila and the others, a …

navanavutiyo →

dppn

NavanavutiyoNavanavatiya

A city in Uttarakuru. DN.iii.201

5town

naḷakapāna →

dppn

A village in Kosala, where the Buddha once stayed and preached the Naḷakapāna Sutta. MN.i.462 There were two groves near the village, the Ketakavana and the Palāsavana; in the latter, Sāriputta preach …

niceluvana →

dppn

A grove of mucalinda trees in Kimbilā. AN.iii.247

Kimbilā3park

nigrodhārāma →

dppn

Nigrodhārāma1

A grove near Kapilavatthu, where a residence was provided for the Buddha. Vin.i.82 There Mahāpajāpati Gotamī first asked permission for women to enter the Order. This was ref …

nikata →

dppn

Nikata1

An upāsaka of Ñātikā. After death he was born in the Suddhāvāsā, there to pass away. SN.v.358f. DN.ii.91f.

Nikata2

One of several eminent theras mentioned as stayi …

niraya →

dppn

Hell. The Saṃyutta and Aṅguttara Nikāyas and the Sutta Nipāta contain a list of hells: Abbuda, Nirabbuda, Ababa, Aṭaṭa, Ahaha, Kumuda, Sogandhika, Uppala, Puṇḍarīka, Paduma. SN.i.149 AN.v.173 Snp.p.12 …

nāgavana →

dppn

A park near Hatthigāma, belonging to Uggagahapati. It was there that he first met the Buddha and was converted. AN.iv.213

26.38202, 84.840543park

nālāgiri →

dppn

NālāgiriNāḷāgiri

An elephant of the royal stalls at Rājagaha. Devadatta, after several vain attempts to kill the Buddha, obtained Ajātasattu’s consent to use Nālagiri as a means of encompassing the B …

palāsavana →

dppn

A wood near Naḷakapāna in Kosala. The Buddha stayed there, AN.v.122 and it was there that the Naḷakapāna Sutta was preached. MN.i.462

near Naḷakapāna in Kosala3park

pañcālacaṇḍa →

dppn

A devaputta who visited the Buddha at Jetavana and uttered a verse to the effect that the man who understands jhāna finds room even among crowding obstacles. The Buddha corrects him, saying that t …

pilotika →

dppn

A wanderer. Jāṇussoṇi once met him returning from Jetavana, where he had gone early to wait on the Buddha. Pilotika, on being questioned, spoke very highly of the Buddha. It is this conversation which …

piyaṅkara →

dppn

A little boy Yakkha. While his mother, with him on her hip, was seeking for food at night, she came unexpectedly to Jetavana where Anuruddha was reciting some verses. The sound pleased her and she sto …

piṅgalakoccha →

dppn

A brahmin of Sāvatthī. He visited the Buddha at Jetavana and the Buddha preached to him the Cūḷasāropama Sutta, at the end of which he declared himself the Buddha’s follower. MN.i.198ff.

pokkharasāti →

dppn

PokkharasātiPokkharasādi

A brahmin of great wealth and learning who lived in Ukkaṭṭha, on a royal demesne given by Pasenadi. Ambaṭṭha was the pupil of Pokkharasāti, who sent him to the Buddha at Icch …

potaliputta →

dppn

A wanderer who visited Samiddhi at the Vejuvana in Rājagaha and said that he had heard the Buddha declare that all action and speech were vain, and that what passed in the mind was the only thing of i …

punabbasumātā →

dppn

A Yakkhinī, mother of Punabbasu. One evening towards sunset, when the Buddha was at Jetavana, she, with her daughter Uttarā on her hip and the boy’s hand in hers, came to the grove in search of food. …

puṇṇa →

dppn

Puṇṇa1

He was born in the family of a householder of Suppāraka in the Sunāparanta country. One day he asked the Buddha for a short lesson so that, having learnt it, he might go back to dwe …

pālileyya →

dppn

PālileyyaPārileyyaPārileyyaka

A town near Kosambī. When the Buddha found that he could not persuade the Kosambī monks to refrain from quarrelling, he left Kosambī alone and unattended, and passing th …

pāricchattaka →

dppn

A tree in Tāvatiṃsā, which grew in the Nandanavana. The devas eagerly watch each stage of development of leaf and flower, and each stage is marked by great rejoicings. AN.iv.117f.

pārāsariya →

dppn

Pārāsariya1Pārāpariya

A monk whose Theragāthā verse speaks of how being restrained he has overcome defilements. Thag.116

Pārāsariya2

A brahmin teacher mentioned in the Indriya …

pāvārikambavana →

dppn

Pāvārikambavana1

The mango grove of Pāvārika of Kosambī.

Kosambī3parkPāvārikambavana2

A mango grove at Nāḷandā where the Buddha stayed when on a visit there. DN.ii.81 It was t …

pāyāsi →

dppn

A chieftain of Setavyā, who lived on a royal domain gifted by Pasenadi. He held the view that there was no world other than this, no fruit of actions and no rebirth. But after a discussion with Kūmara …

rakkhita →

dppn

Rakkhita 1

A monk whose Theragāthā verse speaks of having uprooted all defilements and become cool. Thag.79

Rakkhita2Rakkhitavanasaṇḍa

A forest tract near the village of Pāril …

rohitassa →

dppn

A devaputta. He once visited the Buddha at Jetavana and asked if one could, by travelling, reach the end of the world where there would be no birth, old age, death, etc. The Buddha said that such wa …

rāhula →

dppn

RāhulaRāhulabhadda

Only son of Gotama Buddha. When the Buddha visited Kapilavatthu for the first time after his Enlightenment and accepted Suddhodana’s invitation, Rāhula’s mother sent the boy to the …

rājagaha →

dppn

A city, the capital of Māgadha.

The place was called Giribbaja (mountain stronghold) because it was surrounded by five hills—Paṇḍava, Gijjhakūṭa, Vebhāra, Isigili and Vepulla. It is said MN.iii.68 th …

sahali →

dppn

Sahali1

A class of Devas, present at the preaching of the Mahāsamaya Sutta. DN.ii.259

Sahali2

A devaputta, follower of Makkhali Gosāla. He visited the Buddha at Veḷuvana, in …

sakka →

dppn

…Bhuñjatī, wife of Vessavaṇa, waiting on him. He therefore left with a request to Bhuñjatī to greet the Buddha in his name. He also…

salaḷāgāra →

dppn

SalaḷāgāraSalalaghara

A building in Jetavana. Once when Sakka went to visit the Buddha he found him in the Salaḷāgāra, wrapt in samādhi, with Bhuñjatī waiting on him. Sakka therefore left a message w …

sambhūta →

dppn

Sambhūta1Sītavaniya

A monk whose Theragāthā verse speaks of how a bhikkhu in the Sītavana (Cool Grove) is victorious. Thag.6

Sambhūta2Sānavāsī

When the Vajjiputtaka heresy aro …

sanaṅkumāra →

dppn

…finished his address, Vessavaṇa wonders if there have been Buddhas in the past and will be in the future. The Brahmā reads his thoughts and…

santuṭṭha →

dppn

A disciple of the Buddha at Ñātikā. He was born after death in Akanitthābhavana, there to pass entirely away. DN.ii.92 SN.v.358f.

sappasoṇḍikapabbhāra →

dppn

SappasoṇḍikapabbhāraSappasoṇḍika

A mountain cave in the Sītavana, near Rājagaha. DN.ii.116 A conversation which took place there between Sāriputta and Upasena, just before the latter’s death, is reco …

sarabhū →

dppn

One of the five great rivers of northern India. Vin.ii.237 Ud.v.5 SN.ii.135 AN.iv.101

It formed the boundary between the two divisions of Kosala, Uttara and Dakkhiṇa Kosala. The Aciravatī was its tri …

selā →

dppn

A bhikkhunī who was enjoying her meditation in the Andhavana under a tree when Māra, in the guise of a stranger, approached her and tried to tempt her. But she refuted his statements regarding the att …

serī →

dppn

A devaputta who visited the Buddha at Jetavana and held a conversation with him regarding the giving of food. He tells the Buddha that he was formerly a king, a great giver of gifts at the four gate …

setabyā →

dppn

SetabyāSetavyā

A town in Kosala, DN.ii.316 near which was Ukkaṭṭha.

The Aṅguttara Nikāya AN.ii.37 records a conversation between the Buddha and the brahmin Doṇa, whom the Buddha met on the road from …

siṃsapāvana →

dppn

Siṃsapāvana1

A grove in Āḷavī, where the Buddha stayed in the Gomagga and was visited by Hatthaka of Āḷavī. AN.i.136

26.12098, 83.34133parkSiṃsapāvana2Sīsapāvane

A grove in Ko …

somā →

dppn

Somā1

One day, as she was meditating at the foot of a tree in Andhavana, Māra, wishing to interrupt her privacy, approached her, invisible in the air, and teased her, remarking on the “two …

soṇa →

dppn

Soṇa1

A Thera, declared chief of those possessing clear utterance. AN.i.24 He lived in Avantī, where he met Mahākaccāna and was later ordained by him, after much difficulty assembling the …

subhagavana →

dppn

A wood in Ukkaṭṭha. Once, when the Buddha was there, he visited the Avihā gods DN.ii.50 and, again, from there he visited Baka Brahmā, to whom he preached the Brahmanimantanika Sutta MN.i.326 SN.i.142 …

subhā →

dppn

Subhā1

A group of Brahmās; the group includes the Parittasubhā, the Appamāṇasubhā and the Subhakiṇhā. MN.iii.102

Subhā2Kammāradhītā

The daughter of a rich goldsmith of Rājagah …

subrahmā →

dppn

Subrahmā1

A devaputta. He visits the Buddha at Veḷuvana and tells him that his heart is full of dismay. The Buddha replies that the only path out of sorrow is by way of wisdom, renunciat …

sudatta →

dppn

Sudatta1

A lay disciple of Nādikā who had become a sakadāgāmin. DN.ii.92 SN.v.356f.

Sudatta2

A devaputta who visited the Buddha at Jetavana and spoke two stanzas on the va …

suddhikabhāradvāja →

dppn

SuddhikabhāradvājaSuddhikaBhāradvāja

A brahmin who visited the Buddha at Jetavana and stated that a man can be purified only by knowledge of the Vedas. The Buddha answered that it is not knowledge of …

sudinna →

dppn

SudinnaKalandakaputta

A monk who, after being ordained, returned to his former wife and had relations with her, thus becoming guilty of the first Pārājika offence. When there was a famine in the Vajj …

sujātā →

dppn

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 …

sumana →

dppn

Sumana1

A monk whose Theragāthā verses speak of having accomplished all that he was aksed to do. Thag.330–334

Sumana2Cūḷasumana

A monk whose Theragāthā verses speak of ordaini …

sundarī →

dppn

Sundarī1

A bhikkhunī whose Therīgāthā verses consist of a dialogue, firstly between her father Sujāta and a bhikkhunī, Vāsiṭṭhī, Thig.313–324 and later between Sundarī and her mother. Thig …

susumāragiri →

dppn

SusumāragiriSuṃsumāragiri

A city in the Bhagga country, of which it was probably the capital. Near the city was the Bhesakalāvana where the Buddha stayed.

During his visits there he preached the Anu …

sāketa →

dppn

A town in Kosala. It was regarded in the Buddha’s time as one of the six great cities of India, the others being Campā, Rājagaha, Sāvatthī, Kosambī and Benares. DN.ii.146 In the Vinaya Vin.i.253 howev …

sāvatthī →

dppn

The capital city of Kosala in India and one of the six great Indian cities during the lifetime of the Buddha. DN.ii.147 It was six leagues from Sāketa. Vin.i.253 It was on the banks of the Aciravatī.V …

sītavana →

dppn

A grove near Rājagaha where Anāthapiṇḍika first met the Buddha. When Anāthapiṇḍika approached it, he was filled with fear and trembling. But he was reassured by a friendly Yakkha, Sīvaka. Vin.ii.155*f …

sīvaka →

dppn

Sīvaka1

A Yakkha who helped Anāthapiṇḍika to find the Buddha at Sītavana.Vin.ii.155f. SN.i.211 He is mentioned among the chief Yakkhas to be invoked by followers of the Buddha in time of …

tatojasī →

dppn

A messenger of Vessavaṇa. DN.iii.201

tatolā →

dppn

Messenger of Vessavaṇa. DN.iii.201

tatotalā →

dppn

Messenger of Vessavaṇa. DN.iii.201

tattalā →

dppn

Messenger of Vessavaṇa. DN.iii.201

tissa →

dppn

Tissa1

One of the two chief disciples of Vipassī Buddha. DN.ii.4

Tissa2

A monk who was reborn as a Brahmā with great iddhi-powers. Moggallāna visited him soon after his bir …

udena →

dppn

Udena1Utena

King of Kosambī. He was the son of Parantapa. Once when be discovered that the women of the court had given five hundred costly robes to Ānanda, he was annoyed, but when in ans …

uggaha →

dppn

UggahaMeṇḍakanattā

The grandson of the banker Meṇḍaka; he lived in Bhaddiya. Once when the Buddha was staying in the Jātiyāvana at Bhaddiya, Uggaha invited him and three monks to a meal at his house. …

uggatasarīra →

dppn

A great brahmin. Having made preparations for a great sacrifice, in which numerous animals were to be slaughtered, he visited the Buddha at Jetavana to consult him as to the efficacy of the sacrifice. …

ujjhānasaññikā →

dppn

The name given to a group of devas who once visited the Buddha at Jetavana late at night. They charged the Buddha with inconsistency, but later, begging his forgiveness, they were pardoned by him. SN.i.23–25

ukkaṭṭha →

dppn

A town in Kosala, near the Himālaya. It has been given, free from all taxes (as brahmadeyya), to Pokkharasāti by the king of Kosala, in recognition of the former’s skill. It was thickly populated an …

upacāla →

dppn

Son of Upacālā and nephew of Sāriputta and Khadiravaniya-Revata. He was ordained by Revata. Thag.43 He is mentioned in the Aṅguttara Nikāya AN.v.133 in a list of very eminent disciples, together with …

upacālā →

dppn

When Upacālā was taking her siesta in Andhavana, Māra tried to arouse in her sensual desires, but she vanquished him and became an arahant. This account is found in both the Therīgāthā and the Saṃyutt …

upananda →

dppn

Upananda1

A monk, belonging to the Sākyan clan, who was known for his greed in procuring requisites. Several incidents connected with him are mentioned in the Vinaya. Once he promised to s …

upavāna →

dppn

A monk who was occasionally the attendant of the Buddha, and who features in a number of discourses. Once when the Buddha was attacked by cramp, Upavāna, with the help of his lay-friend Devahita, obt …

uppalavaṇṇā →

dppn

Uppalavaṇṇā

One of the two chief women disciples of the Buddha, and the chief of the women possessed of psychic power. AN.i.25 The Therīgāthā Thig.234–235 SN.i.131f. contains several verses attribu …

uruvelakappa →

dppn

A township of the Mallas in the Malla country. Once when the Buddha was staying there, Bhadragaka, the headman of the town, visited him, and the Buddha preached to him a sermon on the arising and the …

uruvelā →

dppn

UruvelāSenānigamaUruvelapattana

A locality on the banks of the Nerañjara, in the neighbourhood of the Bodhi-tree at Buddhagayā. MN.i.166 The place chosen by the Bodhisatta for his penances was calle …

uttara →

dppn

Uttara1

A monk whose verses are recorded in the Theragāthā. Thag.121–122

Uttara2

A monk whose verse are recorded in the Theragāthā. Thag.161–162

Uttara3

A *devapu …

uttarakuru →

dppn

…is Kuvera, also called Vessavaṇa.

The country is to the north of Jambudīpa. It is one of the four Mahādīpā—the others being Aparagoyāna,…

uttaramātā →

dppn

A Yakkhinī, mother of Punabbasu and Uttarā. Once as she passed Jetavana at sunset looking for food, with her daughter on her hip and holding her son by his finger, she saw the assembly, intently liste …

vajirā →

dppn

Vajirā2

The Saṃyutta Nikāya SN.i.134f. relates that one day, when she was meditating in Andhavana at Sāvatthī, Māra questioned her as to the origin of a “being”, its creator, its origin, …

vanasavhaya →

dppn

VanasavhayaVanasaVanasāvhayaTumbavanagaraPavanaVanasāvatthī

A city lying between Vedisa and Kosambī, on the road taken by Bāvarī’s disciples. Snp.1011

24.69943,80.1727292town

vanavaccha →

dppn

A monk whose Theragāthā verse speaks of his delight to be meditating in nature. Thag.13

There is a separate verse also ascribed to a Vacchagotta on the same theme. Thag.113

vassakāra →

dppn

A brahmin, chief minister of Ajātasattu. He and Sunidha were in charge of the fortifications of Pāṭaligāma, built against the Vajjī. Vin.i.228 Ud.viii.6 DN.ii.72ff.

At Ajātasattu’s suggestion, Vass …

vesāli →

dppn

A city, capital of the Licchavis. It is not possible to know how many visits were paid by the Buddha to Vesāli, but the books would lead us to infer that they were several. Various Vinaya rules are me …

vetambarī →

dppn

One of a group of devas who visited the Buddha at Veḷuvana and spoke of their beliefs. Vetambarī spoke two verses, one condemning asceticism, and the other, which followed immediately on the first, in …

vetaraṇi →

dppn

A river in the Great Hell. SN.i.21 Snp.674 It may be the same as the great “Caustic River” referred to in the Devadatta Sutta. MN.iii.185 Its waters are sharp and bitter, Snp.674 and the river flows b …

veḷukaṇṭakī →

dppn

…and sang the Parāyana. Vessavaṇa happened to be passing over her house on his way from north to south, and hearing the song, stopped at her…

veḷuvana →

dppn

Veḷuvana1Veṇuvana

A park near Rājagaha, the pleasure garden of Bimbisāra. When the Buddha first visited Rājagaha, after his Enlightenment, he stayed at the Latthivanuyyāna. Vin.i.35 The da …

yakkha →

dppn

…and assembly halls. Vessavaṇa is also called Kuvera, and the Yakkhas are his servants and messengers. They wait upon him in turn.

No one,…

yasa →

dppn

Yasa 1

He was the son of a very wealthy treasurer of Benares, and was brought up in great luxury, living in three mansions, according to the seasons and surrounded with all kinds of pleasu …

yasoja →

dppn

YasojaYasojoti

The Udāna mentions Ud.iii.3 how Yasoja and five hundred of his companions went to see the Buddha at Jetavana. There they stood talking to the monks who lived there and made a great upr …

yona →

dppn

YonaYavānaYonakā

A country and its people. The name is probably the Pāḷi equivalent for Ionians, the Baktrian Greeks. The Yonas are mentioned with the Kambojas in the Assalāyana Sutta MN.ii.149 as pl …

ākoṭaka →

dppn

A deva who visited the Buddha at Veḷuvana accompanied by Asama, Sahali, Ninka, Vetambarī and Mānava-Gāmiya. Ākoṭaka spoke before the Buddha in praise of various teachers of other schools: Pakuddha-K …

āmalakīvana →

dppn

ĀmalakīvanaĀmalakivana

A grove at Cātumā. The Buddha once stayed there, and it was on that occasion that the Cātumā Sutta was preached. MN.i.456

Cātumā3park

bhāvanā →

farkas

gyakorlás, kiteljesítés, fejlesztés, kibontakoztatás

abhibhavana →

ncped

overcame (?).

abhisambhavana →

ncped

(from abhisambhavati) mastering.

abhisevana →

ncped

pursuit of; indulgence in.

abhiññā →

ncped

abhiññā1

absol.

abhiññā2

feminine (& ~a m.?)

  1. higher or special knowledge; true understanding.
  2. a special or supernatural power or knowledge (five (or six): iddhividhā, …

antovana →

ncped

the interior of a forest

anudhāvanaka →

ncped

pursuing; following.

anussāvana →

ncped

-ā, feminine

  1. causing to be heard, sounding; proclamation (esp. of a kammavācā).
  2. canvassing, speaking repeatedly (in order to win support)

anusāvana →

ncped

-ā, feminine

  1. causing to be heard, sounding; proclamation (esp. of a kammavācā).
  2. canvassing, speaking repeatedly (in order to win support)

anvānayati →

ncped

leads or brings after oneself; incurs

aparissāvanaka →

ncped

(one who has no water-strainer.

asipattavana →

ncped

forest of trees with swords or knives for leaves

avañāta →

ncped

despised; underrated

aṭṭhīkatvā →

ncped

aṭṭhīkatvāaṭṭhikatvāna

ind. making something one’s aim or object; paying attention.

cajitvāna →

ncped

of cajati

caritvāna →

ncped

of carati

cavanadhamma →

ncped

liable to fall from one existence to another; liable or about to die.

cavanatā →

ncped

, abstr. the state of falling from one existence; death.

caṇḍālavaṃsadhovana →

ncped

name of an acrobatic feat.

chaḍḍayitvāna →

ncped

of chaḍḍeti

chedāpayitvāna →

ncped

of chedāpeti

chetvāna →

ncped

of chindati

chādayitvāna →

ncped

of chādeti

cittabhāvanā →

ncped

mental development or accomplishments.

cittiṃkaritvānā →

ncped

cittīkatvānā →

ncped

cāvana →

ncped

, ~a., feminine causing to move or fall, moving; causing to fall away (from) or abandon.

cāvanādhipāya →

ncped

intending or wishing to cause (someone) to fail away (from) or abandon.

daṇḍaparissāvana →

ncped

kind of sieve or filter (made on a wooden framework)

dhovana →

ncped

  1. rinsing, washing; washing off.
  2. water for washing.
  3. (according to commentaries) a certain ritual (and festival), involving washing of bones.

dhovanā →

ncped

(an instrument) for washing.

dhīrūpasevanā →

ncped

association with the wise.

disvāna →

ncped

of dakkhati

disvānaṃ →

ncped

of dakkhati

gahetvāna →

ncped

of gaṇhāti

gantvāna →

ncped

of gacchati

javana →

ncped

swift; fleet of foot.

javanapañña →

ncped

having swift understanding; of ready intelligence?

jetvāna →

ncped

of jināti

jhatvāna →

ncped

of jhatvā

karitvāna →

ncped

having done.

kasitvāna →

ncped

katvāna →

ncped

having done or made.

kaṇḍuvana →

ncped

itch, itching; scratching

kaṇḍūvana →

ncped

(~antī)n.

kaṭacchuparissāvana →

ncped

handled strainer

kiñcikkhabhāvanā →

ncped

the producing of some material gain (?)

kāyabhāvanā →

ncped

physical development or training

naditvāna →

ncped

of nadati

navanava →

ncped

ever new; quite new; one new after another

netvāna →

ncped

of nayati

niddhamitvāna →

ncped

of niddhamati

nikkhamitvāna →

ncped

of nikkhamati

nikkhipitvāna →

ncped

of nikkhipati

nimminitvāna →

ncped

of nimmināti

nissajitvāna →

ncped

nissajjitvāna →

ncped

of nissajjati

nisīditvāna →

ncped

of nisīdati

nāsayitvāna →

ncped

of nāseti

olokayitvāna →

ncped

orohitvāna →

ncped

oruhitvāna →

ncped

osadhītiṇavanappatayo →

ncped

plants, grasses, and trees

osadhītiṇavanaspatayo →

ncped

plants, grasses, and trees

ossavana →

ncped

(according to commentary) the top of the roof

ossāvana →

ncped

(according to commentary) the top of the roof

thālidhovana →

ncped

the water used for washing a pot.

tulayitvāna →

ncped

of tuleti

ubbhujitvāna →

ncped

having pulled up (one’s clothes).

uggahetvāna →

ncped

unnatavanata →

ncped

raised and depressed; prominent and low; elated and cast down

upahantvāna →

ncped

upasevanā →

ncped

practice, performance; devotion (to); association (with); use.

upaṭṭhāpetvāna →

ncped

ussāvana →

ncped

proclaiming, declaring aloud.

ussāvanantikā →

ncped

(a place for storage, kappiyabhūmi or kappiyakuṭi) authorized by a declaration (while it is being built), whose erection is coterminous with a declaration

ñatvāna →

ncped

of jānāti

ācamayitvāna →

ncped

ācikkhitvāna →

ncped

ādevanā →

ncped

lamenting; deploring.

ālaggetvāna →

ncped

fastening, hanging (on, loc.)

āsevanā →

ncped

assiduous practice; habitual cultivation.

access →

nyana

Access: Moment of access into one-pointed concentration: see: javana

anuloma-citta →

nyana

Anuloma-citta: ‘adaptation-moment of consciousness’, denotes the third of the 4 moments of impulsion javana flashing up immediately before either reaching the absorptions jhāna or the supra\ …

association →

nyana

Association: sampayutta-paccaya is one of the 24 conditional relations paccaya. *

Asubha:* Impurity, loathsomeness, foulness, disgust. - In Vis.M VI, it is the cemetery contemplations * …

bhāvanā-bala →

nyana

Bhāvanā-bala: see: patisankhāna-bala

bhāvanā-maya-paññā →

nyana

Bhāvanā-maya-paññā: understanding based on mental development’; see: paññā

bhāvanā →

nyana

Bhāvanā: ‘mental development’ lit. ‘calling into existence, producing’ is what in English is generally but rather vaguely called ‘meditation’. One has to distinguish 2 kinds: development of tranqu …

brahma-vihāra →

nyana

Brahma-vihāra: the 4 ‘sublime’ or ‘divine abodes’, also called the 4 Infinite states appamaññā are: loving-kindness mettā Pity karunā, altruistic or sympathetic joy muditā equanimity *up …

gotrabhū →

nyana

Gotrabhū: lit. ‘who has entered the lineage of the Noble Ones’, i.e. the Matured One.

I. ‘change-of-lineage-Moment’ gotrabhū - citta is the last of the 4 impulse moments javana cf. *viñ …

impulsion →

nyana

Impulsion: javana

javana →

nyana

Javana: fr. javati to impel: ‘impulsion’, is the phase of full cognition in the cognitive series, or perceptual process citta-vīthi see. viññāna-kicca occurring at its climax, if the respe …

jhāna →

nyana

Jhāna: ‘absorption’ meditation refers chiefly to the four meditative absorptions of the fine-material sphere rūpa-jjhāna or rūpāvacara - jjhāna avacara They are achieved through the att …

paccavekkhana-ñāna →

nyana

Paccavekkhana-ñāna: ‘retrospective knowledge’, refers to the recollected mental image obtained in concentration, or to any inner experience just passed, as for instance, any absorption jhāna, o …

paccaya →

nyana

Paccaya: ‘condition’, is something on which something else, the so-called ‘conditioned thing’, is dependent, and without which the latter cannot be. Many are the ways in which one thing, or one o …

padhāna →

nyana

Padhāna: ‘effort.’ The 4 right efforts samma - padhāna forming the 6th stage of the 8-fold path i.e. sammā - vāyāma see: magga are: 1 the effort to avoid samvara-padhāna 2 to overc …

parikamma →

nyana

Parikamma: ‘preparatory-moment’: see: javana

patisankhāna-bala →

nyana

Patisankhāna-bala: and Bhāvanā-bala: ‘power of reflection’, and ‘power of mental development’. About these 2 powers it is said in A. II, 10:

What, o Bhikkhus, is the power of reflection? If …

paññā →

nyana

Paññā: ‘understanding, knowledge, understanding, insight’, comprises a very wide field. The specific Buddhist knowledge or understanding, however, as part of the Noble 8-fold path magga to deli …

preparatory concentration →

nyana

[[preparatory concentration]]Preparatory concentration: and preparatory image, etc.: see: samādhi javana

puñña-kiriya-vatthu →

nyana

Puñña-kiriya-vatthu: ‘bases of meritorious action’. In the suttas, 3 are mentioned consisting of giving generosity; dāna - maya - p of morality sīla - maya - p and of mental de …

tranquillity →

nyana

Tranquillity: of mind: see: samatha, samatha - vipassanā, bhāvanā, bojjhanga - ‘One who has taken t. as his vehicle’: samathayānika

āsevana-paccaya →

nyana

Āsevana-paccaya: repetition, is one of the 24 conditional relations paccaya.

āyūhana →

nyana

Āyūhana: K ammic accumulation, is a name used in the commentarial literature for the advantageous and disadvantageous intentional activities kamma or kammic-constructions sankhāra (see: *paticc …

abbaṇa →

pts

adjective without wounds Dhp.124.

a + vaṇa, Sk. avraṇa

abhibhavana →

pts

overcoming, vanquishing, mastering SN.ii.210 (variant reading BB abhipatthana).

fr. abhibhavati

abhiharati →

pts

  1. to bring (to), to offer, fetch DN.iii.170; Ja.i.54, Ja.i.157; Ja.iii.537; Ja.iv.421; DN-a.i.272.
  2. to curse, revile, abuse [cp. Sk. anuvyāharati & abhivyā˚] AN.i.198

pass abhihariyati Vv-a.17 …

abhijīvanika →

pts

adjective belonging to one’s livehood, forming one’s living Vin.i.187 (sippa).

abhi + jīvana + ika

abhimukha →

pts

adjective facing, turned towards, approaching Ja.ii.3 (˚ā ahesuṃ met each other). usually -˚ turned to, going to, inclined towards DN.i.50 (purattha˚) Ja.i.203 (devaloka˚), Ja.i.223 (varaṇa-rukkha˚) …

abhirata →

pts

adjective (-˚) found of, indulging in, finding delight in AN.iv.224 (nekkhamma˚); AN.v.175 (id.) Snp.86 (nibbāna˚), Snp.275 (vihesa˚), Snp.276 (kalaha˚); Ja.v.382 (dāna˚); Pv-a.54 (puññakamma˚), Pv\ …

abhisamaya →

pts

“coming by completely”, insight into, comprehension, realization clear understanding, grasp, penetration. See on term Kvu trsl. 381 sq
■ Esp. in full phrases: attha˚; grasp of what is proficient …

abhisamparāya →

pts

future lot, fate, state after death, future condition of rebirth; usually in foll phrases: kā gati ko abhisamparāyo (as hendiadys) ʻwhat fate in the world-to-come’, DN.ii.91; Vin.i.293; SN.iv.59 S …

abhisevanā →

pts

pursuit, indulgence in (-˚) Sdhp.210 (pāpakamma˚).

abhi + sevana fr. sev

abhitthavana →

pts

praise Thag-a.74.

fr. prec.

abhivaḍḍhati →

pts

  1. to increase (intrs.) DN.i.113, DN.i.195 (opp. hāyati); MN.ii.225; AN.iii.46 (bhogā a.); Dhp.24; Mil.374; Pv-a.8, Pv-a.133; Sdhp.288, Sdhp.523.
  2. to grow over or beyond, to outgrow Ja.iii.399 (va …

acchādeti →

pts

to cover, to clothe, to put on DN.i.63 = Iti.75; Ja.i.254; Ja.iii.189; Ja.iv.318; Pp.57; Pv.i.10#5 (ger. acchādayitvāna); DN-a.i.181 (= paridahitvā); Pv-a.49, Pv-a.50
■ fig to envelop, to fill Ja …

adhiṭṭhāna →

pts

  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., …

ahe →

pts

indeclinable exclamation of surprise or bewilderment: alas! woe etc., perhaps in cpd. ahevana a dense forest (lit. oh! this forest, alas! the forest (i.e. how big it is) Ja.v.63 (uttamāhevanandaho, …

ajjhatta →

pts

adjective noun that which is personal, subjective, arises from within (in contrast to anything outside, objective or impersonal); as adv. & ˚interior, personal, inwardly (opp.; bahiddhā bāhira etc o …

ajjhogāhati →

pts

Ajjhogāhati & ˚gāheti

to plunge into, to enter, to go into DN.i.101 (vanaṃ), DN.i.222 (samuddaṃ); MN.i.359, MN.i.536; AN.iii.75 AN.iii.368; AN.iv.356; AN.v.133; Vin.iii.18; Ja.i.7; Mnd.152 (ogāhati \ …

ajjhogāheti →

pts

Ajjhogāhati & ˚gāheti

to plunge into, to enter, to go into DN.i.101 (vanaṃ), DN.i.222 (samuddaṃ); MN.i.359, MN.i.536; AN.iii.75 AN.iii.368; AN.iv.356; AN.v.133; Vin.iii.18; Ja.i.7; Mnd.152 (ogāhati \ …

allīyati →

pts

to cling to, stick to, adhere to (in both senses, good or bad); to covet

  1. lit. kesā sīsaṃ allīyiṃsu the hair stuck to the head Ja.i.64 khaggo lomesu allīyi the sword stuck in the hair Ja.i.273
  2. f …

amba →

pts

the Mango tree, Mangifera Indica DN.i.46, DN.i.53, DN.i.235; Ja.ii.105 Ja.ii.160; Vv.79#10; Pp.45; Mil.46; Pv-a.153, Pv-a.187.

  • -aṭṭhi the kernel or stone of the m. fruit Dhp- …

ambila →

pts

…rasas or tastes, viz. a., lavaṇa, tittaka, kaṭuka kasāya, madhura (see under rasa): thus at Mil.56. Another enumeration at…

ambāṭaka →

pts

the hog-plum, Spondias Mangifera (a kind of mango) Vin.ii.17 (˚vana); DN-a.i.271 (˚rukkha).

anasitvāna →

pts

without eating, fasting Ja.iv.371.

ger. of an + aśati

andha →

pts

adjective

  1. (lit.) blind, blinded, blindfolded Ja.i.216 (dhūm˚); Pv.iv.1#48; Pv-a.3
    ■ dark, dull, blinding MN.iii.151 (˚andhaṃ adv. dulled); Snp.669 (Ep. of timisa, like Vedic andhaṃ tamaḥ); D …

anta →

pts

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, …

antara →

pts

adjective Primary meanings are “inside” and “in between” as adj. “inner”; in prep. use & in compounds “inside, in between”. Further development of meaning is with a view of contrasting the (two) sides …

anu →

pts

Anu1

indeclinable prep. & pref

A.

As prep. anu is only found occasionally, and here its old (Vedic) function with acc. is superseded by the loc. Traces of …

anubhavana →

pts

experiencing, suffering; sensation or physical sensibility (cf. Cpd. 229, 2321) Ne.28 (iṭṭhâniṭṭh-ânubhavana-lakkhanā vedanā “feeling is characterised by the experiencing of what is ple …

anubhavati →

pts

Anubhavati & Anubhoti

to come to or by, to undergo, suffer (feel), get, undertake, partake in, experience DN.i.129; DN.ii.12 (˚bhonti); MN.ii.204; AN.i.61 (atthaṃ ˚bhoti to have a good result); Ja.vi …

anubhoti →

pts

Anubhavati & Anubhoti

to come to or by, to undergo, suffer (feel), get, undertake, partake in, experience DN.i.129; DN.ii.12 (˚bhonti); MN.ii.204; AN.i.61 (atthaṃ ˚bhoti to have a good result); Ja.vi …

anupāpuṇāti →

pts

(anuppā˚) to reach, attain, get to, find SN.i.105; ger. anuppatvāna Pv.ii.9#24 (˚pāpuṇitvā Pv-a.123)
pp anupatta (q.v.)
caus anupāpeti (q.v.).

anu …

anuravanā →

pts

lingering of the sound, resounding Mil.63.

abstr. fr. anuravati

anussava →

pts

hearsay, report, tradition MN.i.520; MN.ii.211; SN.ii.115; SN.iv.138; AN.i.26; Ja.i.158 (with ref. to part. kira = annussav’atthe nipāto; so also at Vv-a.322, cf. anussavana); ii.39 …

anussavana →

pts

Err:509

anussāvana →

pts

(f.) a proclamation Vin.i.317, Vin.i.340; Vin.v.170, Vin.v.186, Vin.v.202 sq.

fr. anussāveti

anuttariya →

pts

preeminence, superiority, excellency; highest ideal, greatest good. They are mentioned as sets of 3 (viz. dassana˚, paṭipadā˚, vimutti˚;) at DN.iii.219, or of 6 (viz. *dassana˚, savana˚ lābha˚, sikk …

anvāgacchati →

pts

  1. to go along after, to follow, run after, pursue; aor. anvāgacchi Pv.iv.5#6 (= anubandhi Pv-a.260).
  2. to come back again Ja.i.454 (ger. ˚gantvāna)

pp anvāgata (q.v.).

anu …

apara →

pts

adjective another, i.e. additional, following next, second (with pron. inflexion, i.e. nom. pl apare) DN.iii.190 (˚pajā another, i.e. future generation) Snp.791, Snp.1089 (n’); Ja.i.59 (aparaṃ divasaṃ …

apilāpana →

pts

counting up, repetition [Kern, Toev, s.v. gives der. fr. a + plāvana] Ne.15, Ne.28 Ne.54; Mil.37.

fr. api + lap

apiḷahati →

pts

Apiḷahati & Apiḷandhati

to tie on, fasten, bind together; to adorn oneself with (acc.) Ja.v.400 (ger. apiḷayha = piḷandhitvā C.)-Cp. apiḷandhana & pp apiladdha.

Sk. apinahyati, on n: ḷ see note on …

apiḷandhati →

pts

Apiḷahati & Apiḷandhati

to tie on, fasten, bind together; to adorn oneself with (acc.) Ja.v.400 (ger. apiḷayha = piḷandhitvā C.)-Cp. apiḷandhana & pp apiladdha.

Sk. apinahyati, on n: ḷ see note on …

appaṭivāṇa →

pts

non-obstruction, not hindering not opposing or contradicting AN.i.50; AN.iii.41; AN.v.93 sq. adj. Ja.i.326.

a + paṭivāṇa, for ˚vrāṇa, the guṇa-form of vṛ; cp. Sk. prativāraṇa

appaṭivāṇitā →

pts

not being hindered, non-obstruction, free effort; only in phrase “asantuṭṭhitā ca kusalesu dhammesu appaṭivāṇitā ca padhānasmiṃ” (discontent with good states and the not shrinking back in the strug …

arañña →

pts

forest DN.i.71; MN.i.16; MN.iii.104; SN.i.4, SN.i.7, SN.i.29, SN.i.181, SN.i.203 (mahā); AN.i.60 (˚vanapatthāni); AN.ii.252; AN.iii.135, AN.iii.138; Snp.39, Snp.53, Snp.119; Dhp.99, Dhp.329, Dhp.330; …

aru →

pts

…= Thag.769 (= navannaṃ vaṇamukhānaṃ vasena arubhūta kāya Dhp-a.iii.109 = Vv-a.77); -gatta (adj.) with wounds in the body MN.i.506…

asati →

pts

*Asati

(& Asanāti q.v.) to eat; imper. asnātu Ja.v.376; fut. asissāmi Thag.223; Snp.970
ppr med asamāna Ja.v.59; Snp.239. ger. asitvā Mil.167; & *a …

asattha →

pts

…Also at Thag.757 (+ avaṇa).

a + sattha

asaṃsaṭṭha →

pts

adjective not mixed or mixing, not associating, not given to society MN.i.ai4; SN.i.63; Snp.628 = Dhp.404 (= dassana-savana-samullāpa paribhogakāya-saṃsaggānaṃ abhāvena Snp-a.468 = Dhp-a.iv.173). …

asevanā →

pts

not practising, abstinence from Snp.259 (= abhajanā apayirupāsanā Kp-a.124).

a + sevanā

asi →

pts

sword, a large knife DN.i.77 (= DN-a.i.222); MN.ii.99; AN.i.48 = (asinā sīsaṃ chindante); AN.iv.97 (asinā hanti attānaṃ); Ja.iv.118 (asi sunisito), Ja.iv.184; Ja.v.45 (here meaning “sickle”), Ja.v.47 …

assasati →

pts

  1. to breathe, to breathe out, to exhale Ja.i.163; Ja.vi.305 (gloss assāsento passāsento susu ti saddaṃ karonto); Vism.272. Usually in combn. with passasati to inhale …

assavanatā →

pts

not listening to, inattention MN.i.168.

abstr. fr. assavana

asubha →

pts

adjective impure, unpleasant, bad, ugly, nasty; nt. ˚ṃ nastiness, impurity. Cp. on term and the Asubha-meditation, as well as on the 10 asubhas or offensive objects Dhs. trsl. 70 and Cpd. 121 n. …

avajānāti →

pts

  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 …

avanata →

pts

see oṇata.

avanati →

pts

(-˚) feminine stooping, bending, bowing down, humiliation Mil.387 (unnat’âvanati).

fr. avanamati

avassāvana →

pts

straining, filtering (?) Ja.ii.288.

fr. ava + Caus. of sru to flow

avhāna →

pts

  1. begging, calling, asking Snp.710; Vism.68 (˚ânabhinandanā).
  2. addressing, naming Snp-a.605 (= nāma).

fr. avhayati, Sk. āhvāna in diff. meaning

ayaṃ →

pts

pronoun demonstr. pron. “this, he”; f. ayaṃ; nt. idaṃ & imaṃ “this, it” etc. This pron. combines in its inflection two stems, viz. as˚; (ayaṃ in nom. m. & f.) & im˚; (id in nom. nt.).

I. Form …

añjana →

pts

ointment, esp. a collyrium for the eyes, made of antimony, adj. anointed, smeary glossy, black (cp. kaṇha ii. and kāla1 note).

  1. Vin.i.203 (five kinds viz. kāḷ˚, ras˚, sot˚, geruka, kapal …

aṭṭhi →

pts

Aṭṭhi˚1

in combn. with katvā: to make something one’s attha, i.e. object, to find out the essence or profitableness or value of anything to recognise the natu …

bala →

pts

Bala1

neuter

  1. strength power, force DN.ii.73; AN.i.244; Thag.188; Dhp.109 (one of the 4 blessings, viz. āyu, vaṇṇa, sukha, bala; cp Dhp-a.ii.239); Pv.i.5#12 (= kāya-bala Pv-a.30); Pv …

bali →

pts

  1. religious offering, oblation DN.ii.74 (dhammika); AN.iv.17, AN.iv.19; Snp.223; Mhvs.36, Mhvs.88 (particularly to subordinate divinities, cp. Mvu. translation 263) Dhp-a.ii.14 (variant reading ˚k …

bhavana →

pts

dwelling, sphere, world, realm SN.i.206, Snp.810 (see expln Mnd.132: nerayikānaṃ nirayo bh. etc. & Snp-a.534: niray’ ādi-bhede bhavane); Mnd.448 (Inda˚ the realm of Indra); Ja.iii.275 (nā …

bhavati →

pts

to become, to be, exist, behave etc. (cp. Cnd.474 sambhavati jāyati nibbattati pātu-bhavati)

I. Forms

There are two bases used side by side, viz bhav˚; and (contracted) ho˚; the latte …

bhuñjati →

pts

Bhuñjati1

to eat (in general), to enjoy, make use of, take advantage of, use Snp.102, Snp.240, Snp.259, Snp.619; Dhp.324 Pp.55.
pot bhuñjeyya Snp.400; Dhp.308, 2nd pl *bhuñj …

bhāsā →

pts

speech, language, esp. vernacular, dialect Ja.iv.279 (manussa˚ human speech), Ja.iv.392 (caṇḍāla˚); Kp-a.101 (saka-saka˚-anurūpa); Snp-a.397 (Milakkha˚); DN-a.i.176 (Kirātā-Yavanâdi-Millakkhāna …

bhāva →

pts

  1. being, becoming, condition, nature; very rarely by itself (only in later & C. literature, as e.g. Ja.i.295 thīnaṃ bhāvo, perhaps best to be translated as “women’s character,” taking bhāva = attabhā …

bhāvanā →

pts

producing, dwelling on something, putting one’s thoughts to, application, developing by means of thought or meditation, cultivation by mind, culture
■ See on term Dhs translation 261 (= 2

bhāvanīya →

pts

adjective “being as ought to be, to be cultivated, to be respected, in a self-composed state (cp. bhāvitatta) MN.i.33 (garu + ; explained by Bdhgh as “addhā ’yam āyasmā jānaṃ jānāti passaṃ passatī t …

bhāvitatta →

pts

Bhāvitatta1

adjective one whose attan (ātman) is bhāvita, i.e. well trained or composed Attan here = citta (as Pv-a.139), thus “self-composed well-balanced” AN.iv.26; Snp.277, Snp.322, …

brahant →

pts

adjective very great, vast, high, lofty, gigantic; nom sg. brahā Snp.410, Snp.550; Thag.31; Ja.iii.117 (= dīgha C.); Ja.iv.111 (su˚); Ja.iv.64#2; Pv.iv.3#10 (of a huge tree), acc sg. brahantaṃ AN. …

brahma →

pts

Brahma & Brahmā

I. Brahman

neuter [cp. Vedic bráhman nt. prayer; nom. sg bráhma]

  1. the supreme good; as a buddhistic term used in a sense different from the brahmanic (save in controvers …

brahmā →

pts

Brahma & Brahmā

I. Brahman

neuter [cp. Vedic bráhman nt. prayer; nom. sg bráhma]

  1. the supreme good; as a buddhistic term used in a sense different from the brahmanic (save in controvers …

calaka →

pts

Calaka1

masculine a camp marshal, adjutant DN.i.51≈(in list of various occupations); AN.iv.107 sq.

Calaka2

neuter a piece of meat thrown away after having been chewed Vin.ii.1 …

caraka →

pts

  1. = cara2 (a messenger) Ja.vi.369 (attha˚); adj. walking through: sabbalokaṃ˚ Ja.v.395.
  2. any animal SN.i.106; Pv-a.153 (vana˚).

carati →

pts

to move about, to “live and move,” to behave, to be
imper act. cara (Ja.i.152), carā (metri causa, Ja.iii.393); imper. med. carassu (Snp.696), pl. carāmase (= exhortative, Snp.32); -ppr. caranto …

catur →

pts

base of numeral four

  1. As num. adj. nom. & acc. m cattāro (Dhp.109; Ja.iii.51) and caturo (Snp.84, Snp.188), f. catasso (Snp.1122), nt. cattāri (Snp.227); gen. m. catunnaṃ (Snp.p.102), (f. catassa …

cavana →

pts

shifting, moving, passing away, only in ˚dhamma doomed to fall, destined to decease DN.i.18, DN.i.19; DN.iii.31, DN.iii.33; MN.i.326; Iti.76; Ja.iv.484; Ja.vi.482 (˚dhammatā).

from cavati

cavanatā →

pts

state of shifting, removal SN.ii.3≈(cuti +); MN.i.49 (id.).

chindati →

pts

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 …

citraka →

pts

Cittaka(a) & Citraka(b)

  1. (adj.)(a) coloured Ja.iv.464.
  2. (m.)(b) the spotted antelope Ja.vi.538.
  3. (nt. a (coloured) mark (on the forehead) Mil.408 (˚dh …

citta →

pts

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 …

cittaka FIXME double →

pts

Cittaka(a) & Citraka(b)

  1. (adj.)(a) coloured Ja.iv.464.
  2. (m.)(b) the spotted antelope Ja.vi.538.
  3. (nt. a (coloured) mark (on the forehead) Mil.408 (˚dh …

ciñcā →

pts

the tamarind tree Ja.v.38 (˚vana); Snp-a.78. Citi-citi

Sk. ciñcā & tintiḍikā

coca →

pts

the cocoa-nut or banana, or cinnamon Ja.v.420 (˚vana); -pāna a sweet drink of banana or cocoa-nut milk Vin.i.246.

Both derivation & meaning uncertain. The word is certainly not Aryan. See the no …

cāraka →

pts

(cārika) adjective wandering about, living, going, behaving, always-˚, like ākāsa˚, niketa˚, pure˚ (see pubbangama), vana˚, -f. cārikā journey, wandering esp. as cārikaṃ carati to go on alms-pilg …

cāvanā →

pts

moving, shifting, disappearance Vin.iii.112 (ṭhānato); Sdhp.61 (id.).

dadāti →

pts

to give, etc.

I. Forms

The foll. bases form the Pāli verb-system: dā, dāy, dadā & di.

  1. Bases dā & (reduced); da
    1. dā˚: fut. dassati Ja.i.113, Ja.i.279 Ja.i …

dassana →

pts

  1. Lit. seeing, looking; noticing; sight of, appearance, look. Often equivalent to an infinitive “to see,” esp. as dat. dassanāya in order to see, for the purpose of seeing (cp. dassana-kāma = da …

dassati →

pts

*Dassati1

to see, to perceive.

  1. (pres.) base dakkh [Sk. drakṣ]: pres.
    1. dakkhati Cnd.428 (= passati), 1st dakkhāmi ibid. (= passāmi) second dakkhasi SN.i.11 …

daṇḍa →

pts

ra; (on ṇ: l cp. guṇa: guḷa etc.) to *del as in Sk. dala, dalati. Cp. Lat. dolare to cut, split, work in wood; delere to destroy; Gr.δαίδαλον work of art; Mhg. zelge twig; zol a stick Possibly also …

deva →

pts

god, a divine being; usually in pl. devā the gods. As title attributed to any superhuman being or beings regarded to be in certain respects above the human level. Thus primarily (see 1a) …

devatā →

pts

“condition or state of a deva, divinity; divine being, deity, fairy. The term comprises all beings which are otherwise styled devas, & a list of them given at Cnd.308 & based on the principle that any …

dhamma →

pts

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 ( …

dhanāyati →

pts

to desire (like money), to wish for, strive after MN.i.260 (perhaps better to be read vanāyati, see formula under allīyati, and note MN.i.552).

Denom. to dhana

dhona →

pts

adjective noun

  1. purified MN.i.386; Snp.351, Snp.786, Snp.813, Snp.834 (= dhutakilesa Snp-a.542); Ja.iii.160 (˚sākha = patthaṭasākha Com.; variant reading BB vena˚); Mnd.77 = Mnd.176 (: dhonā vucca …

dhopana →

pts

  1. ceremonial washing of the bones of the dead DN.i.6; aṭṭhi-dhovana Bdhgh at DN-a.i.84; AN.v.216 (see Commentary at 364).
  2. Surgical washing of a wound Ja.ii.117.
  3. In vaṃsadhopana apparently a …

dhovana →

pts

washing Vin.iv.262; SN.iv.316 (bhaṇḍa˚); AN.i.132, AN.i.161, AN.i.277; Iti.111 (pādānaṃ); Ja.ii.129; Ja.vi.365 (hattha˚); Mil.11 Vism.343; Pv-a.241 (hattha-pāda˚); Dhp-a.ii.19 (pāda˚) fig. (ariyaṃ) …

dhāvana →

pts

running, galloping Ja.ii.431; Mil.351.

Sk. dhāvana

dhīra →

pts

adjective constant, firm, self-relying of character; wise, possessing the knowledge of the Dhamma, often = paṇḍita & epithet of an Arahant DN.ii.128; SN.i.24 (lokapariyāyaṃ aññāya nibbutā dh.), SN.i. …

dinnaka →

pts

an adopted son, in enumn of four kinds of sons (atraja, khettaja, antevāsika, d.) Cnd.448; Ja.i.135 (= posāvanatthāya dinna).

dukkha →

pts

adjective noun

  1. (adj. unpleasant, painful, causing misery (opp. sukha pleasant Vin.i.34; Dhp.117. Lit. of vedanā (sensation) MN.i.59 (˚ṃ vedanaṃ vediyamāna, see also below iii.1 …

dvi →

pts

number two.

A. Meanings

I. Two as unit

  1. with objective foundation:
    1. denoting a combination (pair, couple) or a repetition (twice). In this conn. frequent both objective …

dāna →

pts

  1. giving, dealing out, gift; almsgiving liberality, munificence; especially a charitable gift to a bhikkhu or to the community of bhikkhus, the Sangha (cp. deyyadhamma & yañña). As such it constitute …

ekamantaṃ →

pts

adverb on one side, apart, aside Vin.i.47, Vin.i.94 = Vin.ii.272; DN.i.106; Snp.p.13 (expld. at Snp-a.140 as follows: bhāvana-puṃsaka-niddeso, ek’okāsaṃ ekapassan ti vuttaṃ hoti, bhummat …

erāvaṇa →

pts

Name of Indra’s elephant Snp.379; Vv.44#13; Vv-a.15.

gaccha →

pts

shrub, a bush, usually together with latā, creeper; rukkha, tree, e.g. Cnd.235, id; Ja.i.73; Mil.268; Vism.182 (described on p. Vism.183). With dāya, w …

gacchati →

pts

The three formations (described below in the etymology) are represented in Pāli as follows.

  1. gacch˚, in
    pres gacchati;
    imper gaccha & gacchāhi;
    pot gacche (Dhp.46, Dhp.224) & gacchey …

gahana →

pts

  1. adj. deep, thick, impervious, only in a˚ clear, unobstructed, free from obstacles Vv.18#7 (akanataka +); Mil.160 (gahanaṃ a kataṃ the thicket is cleared).
  2. nt. an impenetrable place, a thicket j …

gandha →

pts

smell, viz.

  1. odour, smell, scent in gen Ja.iii.189; Dhp.54–Dhp.56 = Mil.333; Dhs.605 under ghānâyatanāni); āma˚ smell of raw flesh AN.i.280; DN.ii.242; Snp.241 sq; maccha˚ the scent of fish Ja.iii. …

gati →

pts

  1. going, going away, (opp. āgati coming) (both gati & āgati usually in pregnant sense of No. (2) See āgati); direction, course, career. Freq of the two careers of a Mahāpurisa (viz. either a Cakkavat …

gaṇhati →

pts

Gaṇhati & Gaṇhāti

The forms of the verb are from three bases, viz.

  1. gaṇha- (Sk. gṛhṇā-);
    Pres.: ind. gaṇhāti (gaṇhāsi Pv-a.87)
    pot gaṇheyya,
    imper gaṇha (Ja.i.159; Pv-a.49 …

gaṇhāti →

pts

Gaṇhati & Gaṇhāti

The forms of the verb are from three bases, viz.

  1. gaṇha- (Sk. gṛhṇā-);
    Pres.: ind. gaṇhāti (gaṇhāsi Pv-a.87)
    pot gaṇheyya,
    imper gaṇha (Ja.i.159; Pv-a.49 …

ghaṭa →

pts

Ghaṭa1

a hollow vessel, a bowl, vase, pitcher. Used for holding water, as well as for other purposes, which are given under pānīya˚ paribhojana vacca˚ at Vin.i.157 = Vin.i.352 = MN.i.207. …

go →

pts

, f.) a cow, an ox, bull, pl. cattle. For f. cp gāvī; see also *gava*˚ for cpds
■ Sg. nom. go (Snp.580 also in composition, cp. aja-go-mahisādi Pv-a.80 = pasū) gen. gavassa (MN.i. …

gumba →

pts

  1. a troop, a heap, cluster, swarm. Of soldiers Vin.i.345; of fish (maccha˚) DN.i.84 = MN.i.279 = MN.ii.22; AN.i.9.
  2. a thicket, a bush, jungle; the lair of an animal in a thicket (sayana˚ Ja.iv.256) …

hanati →

pts

Hanati1 & hanti

  1. to strike, to thresh SN.iv.201; Ja.iv.102
  2. to kill DN.i.123; AN.iv.97 (asinā hanti attānaṃ); Snp.125; Dhp.405; maggaṃ˚; to slay travellers on the road Ja.i.274; Ja.ii …

hasati →

pts

Hasati & Hassati

  1. to laugh, to be merry; pres hasati Bv.i.28; Mhvs.35, Mhvs.59; hassati Snp.328, Snp.829;
    ppr hasamāna is preferable variant reading …

hassati →

pts

Hasati & Hassati

  1. to laugh, to be merry; pres hasati Bv.i.28; Mhvs.35, Mhvs.59; hassati Snp.328, Snp.829;
    ppr hasamāna is preferable variant reading …

heṭheti →

pts

to harass, worry, injure Ja.iv.446, Ja.iv.471; Pv.iii.5#2 (= bādheti Pv-a.198) ppr. a-heṭhayaṃ Dhp.49; SN.i.21. med. a-heṭhayāna SN.i.7; SN.iv.179; ger. heṭhayitvāna Ja.iii.480
pp *heṭhayit …

hāsu →

pts

Hāsu˚

of uncertain origin occurs with hāsa˚; in combination with -pañña and is customarily taken in meaning “of bright knowledge” (i.e. hāsa + paññā), wise, clever The syn. javana-pañña poin …

inda →

pts

  1. The Vedic god Indra DN.i.244; DN.ii.261, DN.ii.274; Snp.310, Snp.316, Snp.679, Snp.1024; Mnd.177.
  2. lord, chief, king; Sakko devānaṃ indo DN.i.216, DN.i.217; DN.ii.221, DN.ii.275; SN.i.219 Vepacit …

indriya →

pts

A. On term

Indriya is one of the most comprehensive & important categories of Buddhist psychological philosophy & ethics meaning “controlling principle, directive force, élan, δύναμις” in t …

jahati →

pts

Jahati & jahāti

to leave, abandon, lose; give up, renounce forsake. Ster. expln at Cnd.255 (and passim): pajahati vinodeti byantikaroti anabhāvaṃ gameti. Lit. as well as fig.; esp. w. ref. …

jahāti →

pts

Jahati & jahāti

to leave, abandon, lose; give up, renounce forsake. Ster. expln at Cnd.255 (and passim): pajahati vinodeti byantikaroti anabhāvaṃ gameti. Lit. as well as fig.; esp. w. ref. …

javana →

pts

  1. alacrity, readiness; impulse, shock Pts.i.80 sq.; Vism.22; Dhs-a.265 (cp. Dhs trsl. pp. 132 156); DN-a.i.194. Usually in cpd. javana-pañña (adj. of alert intellection, of swift understanding …

javanaka →

pts

Err:509

jayati →

pts

(jeti, jināti) to conquer, surpass; to pillage, rob, to overpower, to defeat
pres [jayati] jeti Ja.ii.3; jināti Snp.439; Dhp.354; Ja.i.289; Ja.iv.71
pot jeyya …

jhāpeti →

pts

  1. to set fire to, to burn, to cook Vin.iv.265; Ja.i.255, Ja.i.294; Dhp-a.ii.66; Pv-a.62.

  2. to destroy, to bring to ruin, to kill (see Kern,

    Toevoegselen

    , p. 37 sq. Ja.iii.441 (= ḍahati p …

jīvana →

pts

living, means of subsistence, livelihood Pv-a.161. Spelt jīvāna (variant reading jīvino) (adj.) at Ja.iii.353 (yācana˚).

kaccha →

pts

Kaccha1

neuter

  1. marshy land, marshes; long grass, rush, reed SN.i.52 (te hi sotthiṃ gamissanti kacche vāmakase magā), SN.i.78 (parūḷha k-nakha-lomā with nails and hair like long-grow …

kalandaka →

pts

  1. a squirrel Mil.368.
  2. an (ornamental) cloth or mat, spread as a seat Ja.vi.224; -nivāpa Name of a locality in Veḷuvana, near Rājagaha, where oblations had been made to squirre …

kamma →

pts

the doing, deed, work orig. meaning (see karoti) either building (cp. Lit kùrti, Opr. kūra to build) or weaving, plaiting (still in mālākamma and latā˚ “the intertwining of garland …

kampati →

pts

to shake, tremble, waver Kh.6; Ja.i.23; Snp.268 (expl. Kp-a.153: calati, vedhati) Bdhd 84
■ Cp. anu˚, pa˚, vi˚, sam˚
kampamāna (adj.) trembling Ja.iii.161; agitated, trou …

kaniṭṭha →

pts

adjective younger, youngest, younger born Vin.iii.146 (isi the younger); Ja.ii.6; Pv-a.42, Pv-a.54; esp. the younger brother (opp. jeṭṭha, ˚ka) Ja.i.132; Dhp-a.i.6, Dhp-a.i.13; Mhvs.9, Mhvs.7; Pv\ …

karaka →

pts

Karaka1

  1. Water-pot, drinking-vessel (= pānīya-bhājana Pv-a.251). It is one of the seven requisites of a samaṇa Vin.ii.302. It is called dhammakaraka there and at Vin.ii.118, Vin.ii. …

karoti →

pts

v. irreg. Of the endless variety of forms given by grammarians only the foll. are bona fide and borne out by passages from our texts (when bracketed found in gram. works only).

I. Act

  1. I …

karuṇā →

pts

  1. (f.) pity compassion. Karuṇā is one of the 4 qualities of character significant of a human being who has attained enfranchisement of heart (ceto-vimutti) in the 4 sentiments viz. mettā k.˚ upekhā …

kasiṇa →

pts

Kasiṇa1

adjective entire, whole Ja.iv.111, Ja.iv.112.

Vedic kṛtsna

Kasiṇa2

neuter one of the aids to kammaṭṭhāna, the practice by means of which myst …

kattikā →

pts

…5 months: Āsāḷha, Sāvaṇa Bhaddara (Poṭṭhapāda), Assayuja, Kattikā; the month Assayuja is also called pubba-kattikā, whereas the…

kaviṭṭha →

pts

the elephant-apple tree, Feronia elephantum Ja.v.38 (˚vana).

cp. kapittha

kaṇḍuvana →

pts

  1. itching, itchy feeling Dhp-a.i.440; cp. Dhātumañjūsā no. 416 kaṇḍūvana.
  2. scratching, scraping MN.i.508; Ja.ii.249 (appl. to bad music).

fr. kaṇḍūvati

kaṇḍūyana →

pts

the itch Ja.v.69.

See kaṇḍuvana

kaṭacchu →

pts

ladle, a spoon; explained by uḷunka Dhp-a.iv.75, Dhp-a.iv.123; by dabbi Pv-a.135. Used for butter Vv-a.68, otherwise for cooked food in general, esp. rice gruel
■ Vin.ii.216; Ja.i.454; Ja.iii.27 …

keḷāyati →

pts

to adorn oneself with (acc.), to fondle, treasure, take pride in (gen.) MN.i.260 (allīyati kelāyati dhanāyati mamāyati, where dhanāyati is to be read as vanāyati as shown by variant reading SN.iii.190 …

khadira →

pts

the tree Acacia catechu, in compounds -aṅgārā (pl. embers of (burnt) acacia-wood Ja.i.232; Pv-a.152 -ghaṭikā a piece of a ˚wood Ja.iv.88; -tthambha a post of a ˚wood Dhp\ …

khandha →

pts

I. Crude meaning

bulk, massiveness (gross) substance.

  1. Esp. used
    1. of an elephant: the bulk of the body, i.e. its back SN.i.95 vāraṇassa Ja.iii.392; hatthi-khandha-vara-gata on th …

khaya →

pts

waste, destruction, consumption decay, ruin, loss; of the passing away of night Vv-a.52 mostly in applied meaning with ref. to the extinction of passions & such elements as condition, life, & rebirth …

khipati →

pts

to throw, to cast, to throw out or forth, to upset Snp.p.32 (cittaṃ); Ja.i.223 (sīsaṃ), Ja.i.290 (pāsake); Ja.ii.3 (daḷhaṃ dalhassa: to pit force against force)
aor khipi SN.iv.2, SN.iv.3 (khuracakk …

kilañjā →

pts

mat of fibre or rushes, matting Vism.327; also a screen, a fascine, hurdle, faggots; a crate, crating tassa gandhabbaṃ kilañjā-kaṇḍūvanaṃ viya hutvā… Ja.ii.249; “his music was like the scraping of a …

kiñcikkha →

pts

trifle, a small thing: yaṃ vā taṃ vā appamattakaṃ Snp.121; Snp.131; Pp-a 210 (iii.4). āmisa-kiñcikkha-hetu “for the sake of a little gain” AN.i.128 = Pp.29; at Pv.ii.8#3 as āmisa-kiñci-hetu (but …

koṭi →

pts

the end—

  1. of space: the extreme part, top, summit, point (cp. anta to which it is opposed at Ja.vi.371): dhanu-koṭiṃ nissāya “through the (curved) end of my bow,” i.e. by means …

kubbanaka →

pts

brushwood or a small, and therefore unproductive, wood Snp.1134 (expl. Nd ii.by rittavanaka appabhakkha appodaka).

fr. kuṃ-vana

kumuda →

pts

  1. the white lotus Dhp.285; Vv.35#4 (= Vv-a.161); Ja.v.37 (seta˚); Vism.174; DN-a.i.139.
  2. a high numeral, in vīsati kumudā nirayā AN.v.173 = Snp.p.126.

kākola →

pts

and Kākoḷa a raven, esp. in his quality as bird of prey, feeding on carrion (cp. kāka) Ja.iii.246 (= vanakāka); Ja.v.268, Ja.v.270 (gijjha k˚ ā ca ayomukhā… khādanti naraṃ kibbisakārinaṃ); Ja.vi.566 …

kāma →

pts

to desire.

  1. Objective: pleasantness, pleasure-giving, an object of sensual enjoyment.
  2. Subjective: (a) enjoyment, pleasure on occasion of sense, (b) sense-desire.

Buddhist commentators exp …

kānana →

pts

glade in the forest, a grove, wood Snp.1134 (= Cnd. s.v. vanasaṇḍa); Thig.254 (= Thag-a.210 upavana); Ja.vi.557; Sdhp.574.

cp. Sk. kānana

kāya →

pts

group, heap, collection, aggregate, body

Definitions and synonyms

Snp-a.31 gives the foll. synonyms and similes of kāya: kuṭī, guhā (Snp.772), deha, sandeha (Dhp.148 = Thag.20), nāvā (Dhp.3 …

lavana →

pts

cutting, reaping Mil.360.

fr. lunāti

lavaṇa →

pts

salt, lotion Mil.112; Sdhp.158. See loṇa.

cp. late Vedic lavaṇa, cp. Zimmer, Altind. Leben 54

laṅghati →

pts

  1. to jump over (acc.) step over, to hop Ja.iii.272; Ja.v.472 (langhamāno yāti); Mil.85.
  2. to make light of, disregard neglect, transgress Pv-a.15; Vv-a.138
    ■ Cp. abhilaṅghati, ullaṅghati

c …

laṭṭhi →

pts

  1. a staff, stick DN.i.105 (patoda goad), DN.i.126 (id.); Vv-a.64 (id.); Ja.iv.310 (laṭṭhī hata laṭṭhiyā hata G.); Ja.v.280; Mil.27.
  2. stick of sugar cane (ucchu˚) Pv-a.257.
  3. sprout of a plant, o …

limpati →

pts

to smear, plaster, stain; usually in pass. (or med.) sense “to get soiled, to dirty oneself” Thig.388; Pv-a.215
■ Doubtful in Snp passages, where both limpati & lippati; are found as readings, e. …

loka →

pts

four, viz. Kuvera (= Vessavaṇa), Dhataraṭṭha, Virūpakkha, Virūḷhaka alias the 4 mahārājāno Pv.i.4#2; Ja.i.48 (announce the future…

loṇa →

pts

…Vv-a.99. Lonika & Loniya;

cp. Sk. lavaṇa, for which see also lavaṇa. The Prk. form is loṇa

lunana →

pts

cutting, severing Snp-a.148 (niddānan ti chedanaṃ lunanaṃ uppāṭanaṃ).

for lūna(na), cp. lavana

lunāti →

pts

to cut, cut off, mow, reap Mil.33 (yavalāvakā yavaṃ lunanti); Dhs-a.39
pp lūna (& luta); -Caus I. lāvayati Mhvs.10, Mhvs.30; Caus. ii. lavāpeti to cause to mow Vin.ii.180 …

madhu →

pts

honey Ja.i.157 sq.; Ja.iv.117; Dhp.69 (madhū vā read as madhuvā); Mhvs.5, Mhvs.53; Dhs-a.330; Dhp-a.ii.197 (alla fresh honey)
■ pl. madhūni Mhvs.5, Mhvs.31
■ The Abhp (533) also gives “wine fr …

magga →

pts

  1. a road (usually high road), way, foot-path Vism.708 (maggaṃ agata-pubba-purisa, simile of); Vb-a.256 (tiyojana˚, simile of a man travelling); Dhp-a.i.229- addhāna˚; high road Vin.iv.62; MN. …

mahant →

pts

adjective great, extensive, big important, venerable
■ nom. mahā Snp.1008; Mhvs.22, Mhvs.27. Shortened to maha in cpd. pitāmaha (following a …

mahati →

pts

to honour, revere Vv.47#11 (pot. med. 1 pl. mahemase, cp Geiger, P.Gr. § 129; explained as “mahāmase pūjāmase at Vv-a.203). Caus. mahāyati in same sense: ger mahāyitvāna (poetical) Ja.iv.236

mahisa →

pts

Mahisa, Mahīsa, Mahiṃsa

a buffalo. mahisa: DN.i.6 (˚yuddha b. fight), DN.i.9; Ja.iii.26 (vana wild b.); Mhvs.25, Mhvs.36 (T. māhisaṃ)
mahīsa Ja.vi.110- mahiṃsa Vism.191, …

mahiṃsa →

pts

Mahisa, Mahīsa, Mahiṃsa

a buffalo. mahisa: DN.i.6 (˚yuddha b. fight), DN.i.9; Ja.iii.26 (vana wild b.); Mhvs.25, Mhvs.36 (T. māhisaṃ)
mahīsa Ja.vi.110- mahiṃsa Vism.191, …

mahīsa →

pts

Mahisa, Mahīsa, Mahiṃsa

a buffalo. mahisa: DN.i.6 (˚yuddha b. fight), DN.i.9; Ja.iii.26 (vana wild b.); Mhvs.25, Mhvs.36 (T. māhisaṃ)
mahīsa Ja.vi.110- mahiṃsa Vism.191, …

makkaṭa →

pts

  1. a monkey Ja.i.385; Ja.ii.267; Dhp-a.ii.22; Vb-a.408 (˚niddā, a m.’s sleep, said to be quickly changing); Kp-a.73 (in simile); Snp-a.522 (cp. Snp.791). Names of monkeys famous in Jātaka tales: S …

mana(s) →

pts

Mano & Mana(s)

neuter

I. Declension

Like all other nouns of old s-stems mano has partly retained the s forms (cp cetah → ceto) & partly follows the a-declension. The …

mano →

pts

Mano & Mana(s)

neuter

I. Declension

Like all other nouns of old s-stems mano has partly retained the s forms (cp cetah → ceto) & partly follows the a-declension. The …

manteti →

pts

to pronounce in an important (because secret) manner (like a mantra), i.e.

  1. to take counsel (with = instr. or saddhiṃ) DN.i.94, DN.i.104 (mantanaṃ manteyya to discuss DN.i.122 (2nd pl. i …

manāpa →

pts

adjective pleasing, pleasant, charming Snp.22, Snp.759; Dhp.339 (˚ssavana); Vv-a.71; Pv-a.3, Pv-a.9. Often in combination piya manāpa, e.g. DN.ii.19 DN.iii.167; Ja.ii.155; Ja.iv.132
■ Opp.

maraṇa →

pts

death, as ending this (visible) existence, physical death, in a narrower meaning than kālakiriyā; dying, in compounds death
■ The customary stock definition of maraṇa runs; …

maya →

pts

adjective (-˚ only) made of, consisting of
■ An interesting analysis (interesting for judging the views and sense of etymology of an ancient commentator) of maya is given by Dhamm …

mañca →

pts

couch, bed Vin.iv.39, Vin.iv.40 (where 4 kinds are mentioned which also apply to the defn of pīṭha, viz. masāraka bundikābaddha, kuḷīra-pādaka, āhacca-pādaka; same def< …

maṇḍapa →

pts

…Vism.96, Vism.300 (dhamma-savaṇa˚), Vism.339 sq (in simile); Dhp-a.i.112; Dhp-a.ii.45; Dhp-a.iii.206 (˚kāraka); Pv-a.74, Pv-a.171,…

mettā →

pts

to love, to be fat: “mejjati mettā siniyhatī ti attho” love, amity, sympathy, friendliness, active interest in others. There are var. defns & explains of mettā: the stereotype “*metti mettā …

mukha →

pts

  1. the mouth Snp.608, Snp.1022 (with ref. to the long tongue, pahūta-jivha, of the Buddha or Mahāpurisa) Ja.ii.7; DN-a.i.287 (uttāna˚ clear mouthed, i.e. easy to understand, cp. DN.i.116); Pv-a.11, …

māsa →

pts

…Jeṭṭha, Āsāḷha, Sāvaṇa, Poṭṭhapāda Assayuja, Kattika, Māgasira, Phussa, Māgha Phagguna. As to the names cp. nakkhatta. Usually…

nakkhatta →

pts

…[˚āṣāḍha], Uttar˚, Savaṇa, Dhaniṭṭhā Satabhisaja [Śatatāraka], Pubba-bhaddapadā Uttara˚, Revatī
■ It is to be pointed out…

nala →

pts

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 …

naḷa →

pts

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 …

nibbana →

pts

adjective

  1. without forest, woodless Ja.ii.358.
  2. an abstr. fr. nibbāna, see nibbāna I. cp. vana2. Freq. nibbāna as variant reading instead of nibbana without cravin …

nibbanatha →

pts

adjective free from lust or cravings SN.i.180, SN.i.186 (so ’haṃ vane nibbanatho visallo); Thag.526; Dhp.344; Dāvs i.18.

nis + vanatha

nibbisevana →

pts

adjective not self-indulgent, self-denying, meek, tame, gentle Ja.ii.210 (dametvā nibbisevanaṃ katvā), Ja.ii.351; Ja.v.34, Ja.v.381, Ja.v.456; Ja.vi.255; Dhp-a.i.288 (cittaṃ ujuṃ akuṭilaṃ n. karoti …

nibbuta →

pts

adjective (lit.) extinguished (of fire), cooled, quenched (fig. desireless (often with nicchāta & sītibhūta), appeased pleased, happy

  1. (lit.) aggi anāhāro n. MN.i.487; Snp.19 (ginī n. = magga-sali …

nibbāna →

pts

I. Etymology

Although nir + “to blow”. (cp. BSk. nirvāṇa) is already in use in the Vedic period (see nibbāpeti), we do not find its distinctive ap …

nicca →

pts

adjective constant, continuous, permanent DN.iii.31; SN.i.142; SN.ii.109, SN.ii.198; SN.iv.24 sq., SN.iv.45, SN.iv.63; AN.ii.33, AN.ii.52 AN.v.210; Pts.ii.80; Vb.335, Vb.426. In chain of synonyms nicc …

niddhamana →

pts

drainage, drain, canal Vin.ii.120 (udaka˚; dhovituṃ immediately preceding); Ja.i.175 Ja.i.409, Ja.i.425; Ja.iii.415; Ja.iv.28; Ja.v.21 (udaka˚); Dhp-a.ii.37.

of niddhamati or = *nirdhāvana = ˚dhova …

niddhuniya →

pts

? neuter hypocrisy Pp.18 (= makkha); cp J.P.T.S. 1884, 83.

= Sk. nihnuvana fr. nihnute with diff. derivation

nirattha →

pts

adjective useless, groundless, unproficient, vain (opp. sāttha profitable) Snp.582 (nt. as adv.), Snp.585 (niratthā paridevanā); Dhp.41; Ja.iii.26; Pv-a.18 (˚bhāva uselessness), Pv-a.83 (= duḥ).

nis + attha

nirodha →

pts

oppression, suppression; destruction, cessation annihilation (of senses, consciousness, feeling being in general: sankhārā). Bdhgh’s expln of the word is: “ni-saddo abhāvaṃ, rodha-saddo c …

nisevana →

pts

, also -ā feminine practising, enjoying; pursuit Pp.20, Pp.24; Sdhp.406.

Sk. niṣevana, cp. nisevati

nissirīka →

pts

adjective having lost his (or its) splendour or prosperity Ja.vi.225 (ājīvika), Ja.vi.456 (rājabhavana).

nis + sirī

nisīdati →

pts

to sit down, to be seated, to sit, to dwell Cnd.433; Ja.iii.392; Ja.vi.367; Pv.ii.9#3 (nisīdeyya Pot.); Pv-a.74. aor. nisīdi Vin.i.1; Ja.ii.153; Pv-a.5, Pv-a.23, Pv-a.44; 3rd pl. nisīdi …

niṭṭhubhana →

pts

spitting out, spittle Ja.i.47; Pv-a.80 (= kheḷa, variant reading SS niṭṭhuvana, BB niṭhūna).

Sk. niṣṭhīvana, see niṭṭhubhati & cp. Prk. niṭṭhuhana

nāga →

pts

…Ja.iii.275; Snp.379 (Erāvaṇa, see detail Snp-a.368); Dhp-a.i.359 Dhp-a.iii.231, Dhp-a.iii.242 sq. (Ahicchatta); Dhp-a.iv.129 sq….

nāla →

pts

Nāla & Nāḷa

neuter a hollow stalk, esp. that of the water lily AN.iv.169; Ja.i.392 (˚pana variant reading ˚vana); Vv-a.43. See also nāḷikā & nālī.

Sk. nāla, see nala

nāḷa →

pts

Nāla & Nāḷa

neuter a hollow stalk, esp. that of the water lily AN.iv.169; Ja.i.392 (˚pana variant reading ˚vana); Vv-a.43. See also nāḷikā & nālī.

Sk. nāla, see nala

odahati →

pts

…MN.ii.216 (agad’angāraṃ vaṇa-mukhe odaheyya); Thag.774 (migavo pāsaṃ odahi the hunter set a snare; Morris, J.P.T.S. 1884, 76 suggests…

ogāhati FIXME double →

pts

Ogāhati (ogāheti)

to plunge or enter into, to be absorbed in (w. acc. or loc.). Pv.ii.12#11; Vv.6#1 (= anupavisati Vv-a.42), Vv.39#2 (sālavanaṃ o = pavisati Vv-a.177). ogāheti Pv-a.155 (pokkhara …

ogāheti →

pts

Ogāhati (ogāheti)

to plunge or enter into, to be absorbed in (w. acc. or loc.). Pv.ii.12#11; Vv.6#1 (= anupavisati Vv-a.42), Vv.39#2 (sālavanaṃ o = pavisati Vv-a.177). ogāheti Pv-a.155 (pokkhara …

osadhī →

pts

There is no difference in meaning between osadha and osadhī; both mean equally any medicine whether of herbs or other ingredients. Cp. e.g. AN.iv.100 (bījagāma-bhūtagāmā… osadhi-tiṇavanappatayo) Pv. …

ossavana →

pts

outflow, running water MN.i.189 (variant reading ossāvana & osavana). Cp.; avassava.

fr. ava + sru

oñāta →

pts

despised Mil.191, Mil.229, Mil.288.

pp. o + jānāti, see also avañāta

pa →

pts

Pa˚

indeclinable directional prefix of forward motion, in applied sense often emphasising the action as carried on in a marked degree or even beyond its mark (cp. Ger. ver-in its function of Goth. f …

pabbajati →

pts

to go forth, to leave home and wander about as a mendicant, to give up the world, to take up the ascetic life (as bhikkhu samaṇa, tapassin, isi etc.). SN.i.140, SN.i.141; Snp.157, Snp.1003 imper. *[pa …

pabbata →

pts

  1. a mountain (-range), hill, rock SN.i.101 SN.i.102, SN.i.127, SN.i.137; SN.ii.32, SN.ii.185, SN.ii.190; AN.i.243; AN.ii.140; AN.iv.102 (dhūpāyati); Snp.413, Snp.417, Snp.543, Snp.958, Snp.1014; Mnd …

padhāna →

pts

exertion, energetic effort, striving, concentration of mind DN.iii.30 DN.iii.77, DN.iii.104, DN.iii.108, DN.iii.214, DN.iii.238; MN.ii.174, MN.ii.218; SN.i.47; SN.ii.268 SN.iv.360; SN.v.244 sq.; AN.ii …

paha →

pts

Paha1

neuter flight of steps from which to step down into the water, a ghat (= tittha Bdhgh) DN.i.223. The meaning is uncertain, it is trsld as “accessible” at Dial. i.283 (q. …

pajahati →

pts

(˚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 …

pakati →

pts

  1. original or natural form, natural state or condition (lit. make-up); as ˚- = primary original, real Vin.i.189; Vin.ii.113; Ja.i.146 (˚vesena in her usual dress); Kp-a.173 (˚kammakara, ˚jeṭṭhaput …

palavana →

pts

Pilavana & Palavana

neuter swimming, plunging Ja.v.409 (pl˚).

fr. plu

para →

pts

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 …

paribhavana →

pts

Err:509

paribhāvanā →

pts

permeation, penetration Dhs-a.163 (= vāsanā).

fr. paribhāveti

paribhāvita →

pts

  1. penetrated, supplied, filled with, trained, set DN.ii.81 (saddhā-p. cittaṃ, sīla etc.; trsl. “set round with,” cp. Dial. ii.86), cp. SN.v.369; Snp.23 (cittaṃ p.; Snp-a.37 saṃvāsiya); Mil.361; P …

parideva →

pts

lamentation, wailing MN.i.200; SN.ii.1; SN.iii.3 sq. AN.i.144; AN.ii.195; Snp.328, Snp.592, Snp.811, Snp.923, Snp.969; Ja.i.146; Ja.vi.188, Ja.vi.498; Mnd.128, Mnd.134, Mnd.370, Mnd.492; Pts.i.11 sq., …

paridevanā →

pts

Err:509

parikkhāra →

pts

“all that belongs to anything,” make-up, adornment (so Cnd.585 bāhirā p. of the body)

  1. requisite, accessory equipment, utensil, apparatus Vin.i.50, Vin.i.296 (˚colaka cloth required for water-str …

parinibbuta →

pts

adjective completely calmed, at peace, at rest (as to the distinction of the twofold application see parinibbāna and cp., Mrs. Rh.D. Buddhism p. 191; Cpd. p. 168), viz.

1 …

parinibbāti →

pts

Parinibbāyati & ˚nibbāti

  1. to be completed, perfected in any work or art, e.g. of a trained horse MN.i.446. Cp. τελειόω.
  2. to die without being reborn to reach complete extinction of existence Vin.i …

parinibbāyati →

pts

Parinibbāyati & ˚nibbāti

  1. to be completed, perfected in any work or art, e.g. of a trained horse MN.i.446. Cp. τελειόω.
  2. to die without being reborn to reach complete extinction of existence Vin.i …

pariplava →

pts

unsteady, wavering, swerving about Dhp.38 (= upplavana Dhp-a.i.309).

fr. pari + plu

parissāvana →

pts

water strainer, filter (one of the requisites of a bhikkhu) Vin.i.209 Vin.ii.119 and passim; Ja.i.198; Ja.iii.377; Mnd.226; Dhp-a.iii.260 (udaka˚); Vv-a.40, Vv-a.63; Sdhp.593.

fr. pari + Caus. of sru

parissāvanaka →

pts

adjective noun only neg. :

  1. one who has no strainer Vin.ii.119; Ja.i.198.
  2. not to be filtered, i.e. so that there is nothing left to be filtered Ja.i.400 (so read for ˚ssavanaka). Or is it “n …

parivārita →

pts

surrounded, fig. honoured SN.i.166, SN.i.192 = Thag.1235; Ja.ii.48; purakkhata +); Dhp-a.iv.49 (= purakkhata Dhp.343); Dhs-a.1 (devānaṃ gaṇena); Dāvs i.16 (variant reading for parimārita).

pp. of parivāreti

pariyonaddha →

pts

covered over, enveloped DN.i.246; DN.iii.223 (a˚); MN.i.25; SN.v.263; AN.ii.211 (uddhasta +); AN.iv.86; Ja.i.30; Mil.161; Snp-a.596 (= nivuta); Dhp-a.iii.199; Pv-a.172 (taca˚).

pp. of pariyonandh …

pariyonandhati →

pts

to tie down, put over, envelop, cover up Vin.ii.137; SN.v.122; Ja.iii.398; Dhp-a.iii.153
pp pariyonaddha (q.v.).

pari + avanandhati

pasavana →

pts

  1. giving birth Pv-a.35
  2. producing, generating, effecting Pv-a.31 (puñña˚).

fr. pa + su

patta →

pts

Patta1

neuter

  1. the wing of a bird, a feather Vin.iv.259; DN.i.71. kukkuṭa˚ a hen’s quill (for sewing) Vin.ii.215
  2. a leaf MN.i.429; Snp.44 = Snp.64 (sañchinna˚, see Cnd.625); Snp.625 ( …

pattha →

pts

Pattha1

a lonely place, in cpd. vana˚; DN.i.71; Pp.59 etc., a wilderness in the forest, explained by Bdhgh as “gāmantaṃ atikkamitvā manussānaṃ anupacāra-ṭṭhānaṃ yattha na kasanti na vap …

pavana →

pts

…Mvu.ii.382.

cp. Vedic pravaṇa; not with Müller, P.Gr. 24 = upavana; perhaps = Lat. pronus “prone”

Pavana3

at Vin.ii.136 in…

pavesana →

pts

  1. going in, entering, entrance Ja.i.142; Pv-a.79 (variant reading for T. ˚vesa), Pv-a.217, Pv-a.221 (asipattavana˚).
  2. beginning Vv-a.71 (opp. nikkhamana).
  3. putting in, application Ja.ii.102 ( …

pañña →

pts

(-˚) adjective of wisdom, endowed with knowledge or insight, possessed of the highest cognition, in foll. compounds: anissaraṇa˚ DN.i.245; SN.ii.194; SN.iv.332; anoma˚ Snp.343; appa˚ SN.i.198; Ja.ii. …

paṭisevana →

pts

going after, indulging in, practice MN.i.10.

fr. paṭisevati

paṭivasati →

pts

to live, dwell (at) DN.i.129; Vin.ii.299; SN.i.177; Ja.i.202; Snp-a.462; Pv-a.42, Pv-a.67. Pativana, Pativanita, Pativani

paṭi + vasati

paṭivāṇa →

pts

Paṭivāṇa, Paṭivāṇitā, Paṭivāṇī

etc. occur only in neg. form app˚, q.v.

paṭivāṇitā →

pts

Paṭivāṇa, Paṭivāṇitā, Paṭivāṇī

etc. occur only in neg. form app˚, q.v.

paṭivāṇī →

pts

Paṭivāṇa, Paṭivāṇitā, Paṭivāṇī

etc. occur only in neg. form app˚, q.v.

phullita →

pts

in flower, blossoming Ja.v.214 (for phīta = rich), Ja.v.216 (su˚-vana).

pp. of phullati

pibati →

pts

Pivati & Pibati

to drink
pres pivati DN.i.166; DN.iii.184; Ja.iv.380; Ja.v.106; Pv-a.55.

1st pl. pivāma Pv.i.11#8 2nd pl. pivatha Pv-a.78 & *pivātha …

pilava →

pts

Pilava & Plava

  1. swimming, flowing, floating Ja.v.408 (suplav-atthaṃ in order to swim through well = plavana C.).
  2. a kind of duck [so Epic Sk.] Vv.35#8 (cp Vv-a.163); Ja.v.420.

fr. plu, cp. Ve …

pilavana →

pts

Pilavana & Palavana

neuter swimming, plunging Ja.v.409 (pl˚).

fr. plu

pivana →

pts

drinking Pv-a.251.

fr. pivati

pivati →

pts

Pivati & Pibati

to drink
pres pivati DN.i.166; DN.iii.184; Ja.iv.380; Ja.v.106; Pv-a.55.

1st pl. pivāma Pv.i.11#8 2nd pl. pivatha Pv-a.78 & *pivātha …

plava →

pts

Pilava & Plava

  1. swimming, flowing, floating Ja.v.408 (suplav-atthaṃ in order to swim through well = plavana C.).
  2. a kind of duck [so Epic Sk.] Vv.35#8 (cp Vv-a.163); Ja.v.420.

fr. plu, cp. Ve …

pokkhara →

pts

  1. a lotus plant, primarily the leaf of it, figuring in poetry and metaphor as not being able to be wetted by water Snp.392, Snp.812 (vuccati paduma-pattaṃ Mnd.135); Dhp.336; Iti.84.
  2. the skin of a …

posāvanika →

pts

Posāvanika & ˚ya

adjective noun

  1. (adj.) to be brought up, being reared fed Vin.i.272; Ja.iii.134, Ja.iii.432. -iya Dhp-a.iii.35; Ja.iii.35; Ja.iii.429 (& ˚iyaka).
  2. (nt.) fee for bringing som …

posāvaniya →

pts

Posāvanika & ˚ya

adjective noun

  1. (adj.) to be brought up, being reared fed Vin.i.272; Ja.iii.134, Ja.iii.432. -iya Dhp-a.iii.35; Ja.iii.35; Ja.iii.429 (& ˚iyaka).
  2. (nt.) fee for bringing som …

poṇa →

pts

…pa + ava + nam, cp. ninna & Vedic pravaṇa

pubbaka →

pts

adjective

  1. former, ancient, living in former times DN.i.104 (isayo), DN.i.238 (id.); Snp.284 (id.) SN.ii.105; SN.iv.307 (ācariya-pācariyā); Thag.947.
  2. (-˚; cp. pubba2 1) having forme …

pure →

pts

indeclinable before (both local & temporal), thus either “before, in front” or “before, formerly, earlier.” In both meanings the opp. is pacchā -

  1. local SN.i.176 (pure hoti t …

putta →

pts

…the akkha-bbhañjana (& vaṇapaticchādana)-simile, e.g. Vism.32, Vism.45; Dhp-a.i.375; Snp-a.58, Snp-a.342. Besides at SN.ii.98 (in…

puñña →

pts

merit meritorious action, virtue. Always represented as foundation and condition of heavenly rebirth & a future blissful state, the enjoyment (& duration) of which depends on the amount of merit accum …

pāda →

pts

  1. the foot, usually pl. pādā both feet, e.g. Vin.i.9, Vin.i.34, Vin.i.188; Iti.111; Snp.309, Snp.547, Snp.768, Snp.835, Snp.1028; Ja.ii.114; Ja.iv.137; Dhp-a.iii.196; Pv-a.4, Pv-a.10, Pv-a.40, …

pāli →

pts

Pāli (Pāḷi)

feminine

  1. a line, row Dāvs iii.61; Dāvs iv.3; Vism.242 (dvattiṃs’ ākāra˚), Vism.251 (danta˚); Snp-a.87.
  2. a line, norm thus the canon of Buddhist writings; the text of the Pāli Canon …

pālibhaddaka →

pts

the tree Butea frondosa Ja.iv.205; Cnd.680Aii Vism.256 (˚aṭṭhi); Vb-a.239 (id.); Kp-a.46, Kp-a.53; Dhs-a.14; Dhp-a.i.383. As phālibhaddaka (-vana) at Ja.ii. …

pāḷi →

pts

Pāli (Pāḷi)

feminine

  1. a line, row Dāvs iii.61; Dāvs iv.3; Vism.242 (dvattiṃs’ ākāra˚), Vism.251 (danta˚); Snp-a.87.
  2. a line, norm thus the canon of Buddhist writings; the text of the Pāli Canon …

pīti →

pts

emotion of joy, delight, zest exuberance. On term see Dhs. trsl. 11 and Cpd. 243 Classed under sankhārakkhandha, not vedanā˚-DN.i.37, DN.i.75; DN.iii.241, DN.iii.265, DN.iii.288; MN.i.37; SN.ii.30; …

pūga →

pts

Pūga1

neuter heap, quantity; either as n. with gen or as adj. = many, a lot Snp.1073 (pūgaṃ vassānaṃ bahūni vassāni Cnd.452); Pv.iv.7#9 (pūgāni vassāni) Vb-a.2 (khandhaṭṭha, piṇḍ˚, pūg˚). …

rahita →

pts

  1. lonely, forsaken Thig.373 (gantum icchasi rahitaṃ bhiṃsanakaṃ mahāvanaṃ).
  2. deprived of, without (-˚) Ja.iii.369 (buddhiyā rahitā sattā); DN-a.i.36 (avaṇṇa˚); Pv-a.63 (bhoga˚), Pv-a.67 (ācāra˚ …

ramita →

pts

having enjoyed, enjoying, taking delight in, amusing oneself with (loc. or saha) Snp.709 (vanante r. siyā); Dhp.305 (id. = abhirata Dhp-a.iii.472) Pv.ii.12#21 (’mhi tayā saha).

pp. of rameti

rasa →

pts

…has the foll.: ambila lavaṇa, tittaka, kaṭuka, kasāya, madhura.

  1. juice [as applied in the Veda to the Soma juice], e.g. in the foll….

ratta →

pts

Ratta1

  1. dyed, coloured MN.i.36 (dūratta-vaṇṇa difficult to dye or badly dyed MN-a.167 reads duratta and explains as durañjita-vaṇṇa opp. suratta ibid.); Snp.287 (nānā-rattehi vatthe …

ravaṇa →

pts

…of ravaṇa is uncertain. Only at identical passages (in illustration) Vism.264 = Vism.362 = Kp-a.68 (reading…

rodati →

pts

Rudati & Rodati

to cry, lament weep, wail

Forms

  1. rud˚; (the older form):
    pres rudati (not yet found);
    ppr rudanto DN.i.115; Snp.675 Snp.691; *[rudamāna …

ropa →

pts

(-˚) plantation; in vana˚ & ārāma˚ SN.i.33.

fr. rop = Caus. of ruh

ropana →

pts

ropanā (f.)

  1. planting Pv-a.151 (ārāma˚); Mhvs.15, Mhvs.41.
  2. healing SN.iv.177 (vaṇa˚)
  3. furthering, making grow Pts.ii.115 (buddhi˚).
  4. (f.) accusation Vin.iv.36.

fr. ropeti1

ropaya →

pts

adjective (-˚) to be healed, only in cpd. du˚; hard to heal (of a wound) Vin.i.216 (vaṇa).

for *ropya, fr. ropeti1

rudati →

pts

Rudati & Rodati

to cry, lament weep, wail

Forms

  1. rud˚; (the older form):
    pres rudati (not yet found);
    ppr rudanto DN.i.115; Snp.675 Snp.691; *[rudamāna …

rukkha →

pts

tree. In the rukkha-mūlik’ anga (see below) Bdhgh at Vism.74 gives a list of trees which are not to be selected for the practice of “living at the root of a tree.” These are sīmantarika-rukkha, ceti …

rāji →

pts

Rāji1

a streak, line, row Snp.p.107 (nīla-vana˚ = dark line of trees, explained as nīla-vana rukkha-panti Snp-a.451); Vv.64#4 (nabhyo sata-rāji-cittita “coloured with 100 streaks”; V …

rāmaṇeyyaka →

pts

adj. nt. pleasant agreeable, lovely AN.i.35, AN.i.37; Dhp.98 (= ramaṇīya Dhp-a.iii.195); nt. delightfulness, lovely scenery MN.i.365 (four seen in a dream: ārāma˚, vana˚, bhūmi pokkharaṇī˚).

orig. g …

rūḷha →

pts

…healed up Mil.291 (˚vaṇa one whose wound has healed): cp. rūhanā.

pp. of rohati; of ruh; Sk….

saddhamma →

pts

the true dhamma, the best religion, good practice, the “doctrine of the good” (so Geiger, Pali Dhamma pp. 53, 54, q.v. for detailed discussion of the term) MN.i.46; SN.v.172 sq.; AN.i.69; AN.iii.7 …

sajīvāna →

pts

at SN.i.44 is metric spelling for sa-jīvana “same livelihood,” in phrase kiṃsu kamme s. “what is (of) the same livelihood in work, i.e. occupation?” The form is the same as jīvāna at Ja.iii.3 …

samavaṭṭhita →

pts

ready Snp.345 (˚-ā savanāya sotā).

sambhavana →

pts

coming into existence Ne.28.

fr. sambhavati

sambhāvana →

pts

supposition, assumption, the meaning of the particle sace Vin.i.372#2; cp Ja.ii.29; Dhp-a.ii.77.

fr. sambhāveti

sambhāvanā →

pts

honour, reverence, intention, confidence Mhvs.29, Mhvs.55; Dhs-a.163 (= okappanā); Sdhp.224.

fr. sambhāveti

sambādha →

pts

  1. crowding, pressure, inconvenience from crowding, obstruction Vism.119 janasambādharahita free from crowding Mil.409 kiṭṭhasambādha crowding of corn, the time when the corn is growing thick MN.i.115 …

sammati →

pts

Sammati1 [śam

Dhtp.436 = upasama]

  1. to be appeased, calmed; to cease Dhp.5; Pot 3rd pl. sammeyyuṃ SN.i.24
  2. to rest, to dwell DN.i.92; SN.i.226; Ja.v.396; DN-a.i.262 (= vasa …

samādhi →

pts

  1. concentration; a concentrated, self-collected, intent state of mind and meditation which, concomitant with right living, is a necessary condition to the attainment of higher wisdom and emancipatio …

samāpatti →

pts

attainment AN.iii.5; SN.ii.150 sq.; SN.iv.293 (saññā-vedayita-nirodha˚); Dhs.30 Dhs.101; a stage of meditation AN.i.94; Dhs.1331; Ja.i.343 Ja.i.473; Pv-a.61 (mahā-karuṇā˚); Mnd.100, Mnd.106, Mnd.1 …

san →

pts

San1

a dog; nom. sg DN.i.166 = MN.i.77; SN.i.176; SN.iii.150; Kv.336. For other forms of the same base see suvāṇa.

cp. Vedic śvā, gen. śunaḥ; Av. sp …

sandhovika →

pts

washing; kaṇṇa-sandhovikā khiḍḍā ear-washing sport or gambol (of elephants, with piṭṭhi˚; etc.) AN.v.202. So probably for saṇadhovika at MN.i.229, MN.i.375. Cp. *[sāṇadhovana](/define/sāṇadhov …

sandāleti →

pts

to break; ger. sandālayitvāna Snp.62.

saṃ + dāleti

santhana →

pts

  1. appeasing Dhp.275.
  2. satisfaction Vv.18#6.

fr. śam, cp. Sk. śāntvana

santhavana →

pts

acquaintance Dhs-a.364.

fr. saṃ + thavati

satti →

pts

Satti1

feminine ability, power Dhtp.508 Usually in phrase yathā satti as much as one can do according to one’s ability Cp.i.10#6; Dhp-a.i.399; or yathā sattiṃ DN.i.102, or *y. sattiyā …

savana →

pts

Savana1

neuter

  1. the ear Snp.1120; Mil.258.
  2. hearing DN.i.153, DN.i.179; AN.i.121; SN.i.24; Vin.i.26; Snp.265, Snp.345; Dhp.182; Ja.i.160, Ja.i.250; Mil.257 Mnd.188. sussavanaṃ sāvesi …

sañjanati →

pts

to be born; only in Caus. -janeti to cause, produce; realize Pp.16; Sdhp.564 (ger. ˚janayitvāna)
pp sañjāta. See also Pass. saṃjāyati.

saṃ + janati

sañjīvana →

pts

adjective reviving Thag-a.181 (Ap. v. 23: putta˚).

fr. saṃ + jīv

saṃsagga →

pts

…and by hearing (savaṇa˚)
pada˚; contact of two words, “sandhi Mnd.139; Cnd.137 (for iti); Snp-a.28
; SN.ii.202;…

saṃsevanā →

pts

associating Dhs.1326 = Pp.20.

fr. saṃsevati

saṃvidahati →

pts

to arrange, appoint, fix, settle, provide, prepare DN.i.61
pot ˚eyyāma;
aor ˚vidahi Pv-a.198;
inf -vidhātuṃ AN.ii.35, & -vidahituṃ Vin.i.287;
ger -vidhāya Vin.iv.62 sq., Vin.iv.133; …

saṇa →

pts

kind of hemp DN.ii.350 (variant reading); SN.i.115 (do.); cp. sāṇa1 & sāṇī.

  • -dhovika [perhaps (Kern’s suggestion) sāṇa˚ (variant reading) visāṇa˚?] name of a particular kind of gamb …

saṇḍa →

pts

heap, cluster, multitude; a grove (vana˚ DN.i.87; SN.iii.108; Vin.i.23; Ja.i.134 (vana˚); satta˚ teeming with beings Iti.21
Jambu˚; Name of Jambudīpa Snp.352 = Thag.822 (variant reading ˚maṇḍa …

sevanatā →

pts

(-˚) feminine = sevanā Vb-a.282 sq.

abstr, fr. sevati

sevanā →

pts

following, associating with Snp.259; Dhs.1326; Pp.20; Dhtp.285 (as nt.); cohabiting Vin.iii.29.

fr. sevati

simbali →

pts

the silk-cotton tree Bombax heptaphyllum Ja.i.203; Ja.iii.397; Vism.206; Dhp-a.i.279. --vana a forest of simbali trees Ja.i.202; Ja.ii.162 (s. ˚-pālibhaddaka-vana); Ja.iv.277. sattisimbalivana …

siniddha →

pts

  1. wet, moist Vism.171.
  2. oily, greasy, fatty Ja.i.463, Ja.i.481; Snp-a.100 (˚āhāra fattening food).
  3. smooth, glossy Ja.i.89; Ja.iv.350 (of leaves); Mil.133.
  4. resplendent charming Thag-a.139. 5 …

siṃsapā →

pts

the tree Dalbergia sisu (a strong & large tree) SN.v.437; Siṃsapā-groves (s- vanā are mentioned near Āḷavi AN.i.136; near Setavyā DN.ii.316 sq.; Dhp-a.i.71; Vv-a.297; and near Kosambi SN.v.437.

c …

somanassa →

pts

mental ease, happiness, joy DN.i.3; DN.ii.278; DN.iii.270; MN.i.85, MN.i.313; SN.iv.232; AN.ii.69; AN.iii.207, AN.iii.238; Dhp.341; Snp.67; Pp.59 Vb-a.73; Pv-a.6, Pv-a.14, Pv-a.133; DN-a.i.53; it …

sota →

pts

Sota1

neuter ear, the organ of hearing Vin.i.9, Vin.i.34; DN.i.21; Snp.345 (nom pl. sotā); Vism.444 (defined); Dhs.601; Dhs-a.310-dibba-sota the divine ear (cp. dibba-cakkhu) DN.i.79 D …

soṇa →

pts

Soṇa1

a dog Ja.i.146; Ja.vi.107 (= sunakha); Snp.675; Vism.191; Dhp-a.iii.255 (+ sigāla); soṇi (f.) a bitch Mhvs.7, Mhvs.8 = sona Iti.36.

see suvāṇa

Soṇa2</s …

su →

pts

Su1

indeclinable a part. of exclamation “shoo!”; usually repeated su su Ja.ii.250; Ja.vi.165 (of the hissing of a snake); Thag-a.110 (scaring somebody away), Thag-a.305 (sound of puffi …

sukha →

pts

adjective noun agreeable, pleasant, blest Vin.i.3; Dhp.118, Dhp.194, Dhp.331; Snp.383; paṭipadā, pleasant path, easy progress AN.ii.149 sq.; Dhs.178; kaṇṇa-s. pleasant to the ear DN.i.4; happy, pleas …

suna →

pts

Suna1

swollen Vin.ii.253; AN.iv.275, AN.iv.470.

Sk. śūna, pp. of śū to swell

Suna2

a dog, also written suṇa Ja.vi.353, Ja.vi.357 (cp. sunakha).

Sk. śuna; see *[suvāṇa](/de …

sunakha →

pts

dog AN.i.48; AN.ii.122; Thig.509; Ja.i.175, Ja.i.189; Ja.ii.128, Ja.ii.246; Pv-a.151, Pv-a.206
rukkha˚ some sort of animal Ja.vi.538. fem. sunakhī a bitch Ja.iv.400
■ Na …

supāṇa →

pts

dog DN.ii.295 = MN.i.58, MN.i.88; Snp.201; Mil.147. Spelt supāna at Ja.iv.400.

= suvāṇa

suta →

pts

Suta1

  1. heard; in special sense “received through inspiration or revelation” learned; taught A 97 sq.; DN.iii.164 sq., DN.iii.241 sq.; freq in phrase “iti me sutaṃ” thus have I heard, I ha …

sutta →

pts

Sutta1

asleep Vin.iii.117; Vin.v.205; DN.i.70; DN.ii.130; Dhp.47; Iti.41; Ja.v.328
■ (nt.) sleep DN.ii.95; MN.i.448; SN.iv.169. In phrase --pabuddha “awakened from sleep” referring t …

suvanaya →

pts

easy to bring SN.i.124 = Ja.i.80.

su-v-ānaya

suvāna →

pts

Suvāṇa & suvāna

a dog MN.iii.91 (= supāṇa MN.i.58); Ja.vi.247 (the 2 dogs of hell: Sabala & Sāma); Vism.259 (= supāṇa Kp-a.58). As suvā˚; at Sdhp.379, Sdhp.408
■ See also the var. forms san, suṇ …

suvāṇa →

pts

Suvāṇa & suvāna

a dog MN.iii.91 (= supāṇa MN.i.58); Ja.vi.247 (the 2 dogs of hell: Sabala & Sāma); Vism.259 (= supāṇa Kp-a.58). As suvā˚; at Sdhp.379, Sdhp.408
■ See also the var. forms san, suṇ …

suṇoti →

pts

Suṇāti & suṇoti

to hear.
pres suṇāti DN.i.62, DN.i.152; SN.v.265; Snp.696; Iti.98; Mil.5 suṇoti Ja.iv.443;
pot suṇeyya Vin.i.7; DN.i.79; suṇe Ja.iv.240;
imper *[suṇa]( …

suṇāti →

pts

Suṇāti & suṇoti

to hear.
pres suṇāti DN.i.62, DN.i.152; SN.v.265; Snp.696; Iti.98; Mil.5 suṇoti Ja.iv.443;
pot suṇeyya Vin.i.7; DN.i.79; suṇe Ja.iv.240;
imper *[suṇa]( …

sāla →

pts

Sal tree (Shorea robusta) MN.i.488; DN.ii.134; AN.i.202; AN.iii.49, AN.iii.214; Dhp.162.

sānu →

pts

ridge Vv.32#10; Ja.iii.172. The commentary on the former passage (Vv-a.136) translates vana wood, that on the latter paṃsupabbata sānupabbata a forest-hill Ja.iv.277; Ja.vi.415, Ja.vi.540; pabbatasā …

sāpānadoṇī →

pts

MN.ii.183 = MN.ii.152 (C. = sunakhānaṃ pivanadoṇi a dog’s trough).

sāropin →

pts

adjective healing, curative MN.ii.257 (vaṇa-˚).

saṃ + ropin, cp. ropeti1 & rūhati1

sāvana →

pts

shouting out, announcement, sound, word Ja.ii.352; Sdhp.67.

fr. sāveti

sāṇadhovana →

pts

kind of play DN-a.i.84 = saṇadhovikā.

sīvana →

pts

Sīvana & sīveti

see *vi*˚.

sīvathikā →

pts

cemetery, place where dead bodies are thrown to rot away Vin.iii.36; DN.ii.295 sq.; AN.iii.268 AN.iii.323; Ja.i.146; Pv.iii.5#2 (= susāna Pv-a.198); Vism.181 Vism.240; Pv-a.195. Sivana & siveti;

et …

sīveti →

pts

Sīvana & sīveti

see *vi*˚.

sūpatittha →

pts

adjective with beautiful banks. Usually spelt su˚; as if su + patittha (see patittha), e.g. Vin.iii.108; Ja.vi.518, Ja.vi.555 (= sobhana˚); DN.ii.129; Ud.83; Pv.ii.1#20 (= sun …

ta →

pts

Ta˚

base of demonstr. pron. for nt., in oblique cases of m. & f., in demonstr. adv. of place & time (see also sa).

I. Cases: nom

sg. nt. tad (older) Vin.i.83; Snp.1052; Dh …

tapa →

pts

Tapa & Tapo

  1. torment, punishment, penance, esp. religious austerity, self-chastisement ascetic practice. This was condemned by the Buddha: Gotamo sabbaṃ tapaṃ garahati tapassiṃ lūkhajīviṃ upavadati …

tapana →

pts

adjective noun burning, heat; fig. torment, torture, austerity.

  1. (as nt.) Pv-a.98 (kāya ˚sankhāto tapo).
  2. (as f.) tapanī Ja.v.201 (in metaphorical play of word with aggi & brahmacārin Com. vis …

tapo →

pts

Tapa & Tapo

  1. torment, punishment, penance, esp. religious austerity, self-chastisement ascetic practice. This was condemned by the Buddha: Gotamo sabbaṃ tapaṃ garahati tapassiṃ lūkhajīviṃ upavadati …

tattha →

pts

A.

  1. of place:
    1. place where there, in that place Snp.1071, Snp.1085; Dhp.58; Ja.i.278; Pv.i.10#15; often with eva: tatth’ eva right there, on the (very same) spot SN.i.116; Ja.ii.154; …

taṇhā →

pts

(lit.) drought, thirst; (fig.) craving, hunger for, excitement the fever of unsatisfied longing (c. loc.: kabaḷinkāre āhāre “thirst” for solid food SN.ii.101 sq.; cīvare piṇḍapāte taṇhā = greed for Sn …

thavikā →

pts

knapsack, bag, purse; esp. used for the carrying of the bhikkhu’s strainer Vin.i.209 (parissāvanāni pi thavikāyo pl pūretvā), Vin.i.224 (patte + pariss˚ + th.); Ja.i.55 (pattaṃ thavikāya pakkhipitvā …

thālī →

pts

(thāli˚ in compounds) an earthen pot, kettle, large dish; in -dhovana washing of the dish AN.i.161 (+ sarāva-dhovana); -pāka an offering of barley or rice co …

thāsotu →

pts

Thāsotu˚

in thāsotujana savana at Thag-a.61 according to Morris, J.P.T.S. 1884, 81 it is to be read ṭhānaso tu jana˚.

tibba →

pts

adjective

  1. sharp, keen, eager: tibbagārava very devout AN.ii.21; Ne.112 (cp tīvraprasāda Avs.i.130); t- cchanda DN.iii.252, DN.iii.283.
  2. dense, thick; confused, dark, dim: t- rāga Dhp.349 (= ba …

tidasa →

pts

number thirty (cp. tiṃsa), esp. the thirty deities (pl.) or belonging to them (adj.). It is the round figure for 33, and is used as equivalent to tāvatiṃsa. Nandanaṃ rammaṃ tidasānaṃ mahāvanaṃ Pv.iii. …

timira →

pts

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 …

tiracchāna →

pts

an animal Iti.92 (tiracchānaṃ ca yoniyo for tiracchāna-yoniyo); Vb.339 (˚gāminī paṭipadā leading to rebirth among beasts); Vv-a.23 (manussatiracchāna an animal-man, wild man, “werwolf”).

  • *-[kat …

tittaka →

pts

…read for tintaka lābu) Dhs.629 = Cnd.540 (tittika; enumerated between lavaṇa & kaṭuka); Dhs-a.320.

cp. Sk. tiktaka from tij

tittakatta →

pts

bitterness, enumerated with lavaṇattaṃ & kaṭukattaṃ at Mil.56 = Mil.63 (cp. Cnd.540).

abstr. to tittaka

tiṇha →

pts

sharp (of swords, axes, knives, etc.) DN.i.56 (sattha); SN.iv.160, SN.iv.167 (kuṭhārī); AN.iv.171; Snp.667 (˚dhāra), Snp.673 (asipattavana); Ja.i.253; Sdhp.381.

see tikhiṇa

tāla →

pts

  1. the palmyra tree (fan palm), Borassus flabelliformis; freq. in comparisons similes MN.i.187; Ja.i.202 (˚vana), Ja.i.273 (˚matta as tall as a palm): Vv-a.162; Pv-a.100 (chinnamūlo viya tālo)
  2. a …

tāvatiṃsa →

pts

No. 33, only in compounds denoting the 33 gods, whose chief is Sakka, while the numeral 33 is always tettiṃsa. This number occurs already in the Vedas with ref. to the gods & is …

ubbhava →

pts

birth, origination, production Pgdp.91 (dānassa phal˚). Cp. BSk. udbhāvanā Divy.184 (guṇ˚) Divy.492 (id.).

ud + bhava

uccināti →

pts

to select, choose, search, gather, pick out or up Vin.i.73; Vin.ii.285 (aor. uccini); Ja.iv.9; Pv.iii.2#4 (nantake = gavesana-vasena gahetvāna Pv-a.185); Dpvs.iv.2.

ud + cināti

ud →

pts

Ud-

prefix in verbal & nominal combn. One half of all the words beginning with u˚ are combns. with ud˚, which in compn. appears modified according to the rules of as …

udaka →

pts

water Vin.ii.120, Vin.ii.213; DN.ii.15 (˚assa dhārā gushes or showers of w.); Dhp.80 Dhp.145; Ja.i.212; Pv.i.5#7; Pp.31, Pp.32; Mil.318; Vv-a.20 (udake temanaṃ aggimhe tāpanaṃ); Dhp-a.i.289; Dhp-a. …

uddhana →

pts

an oven Ja.i.33, Ja.i.68, Ja.i.71, Ja.i.346; Ja.ii.133, Ja.ii.277; Ja.iii.178, Ja.iii.425 Ja.v.385, Ja.v.471; Ja.ii.218 (kammār˚), Ja.ii.574; Snp.p.105; Mil.118 Mil.259; Vism.171, Vism.254; Dhp-a.i.5 …

uggacchati →

pts

to rise, get up out of (lit. & fig.) Thag.181; aruṇe uggacchante at sunrise Vv-a.75; Pv.iv.8; Vism.43, ger. uggañchitvāna Mil.376
pp uggata (q.v.).

ud + gam

uggirati →

pts

Uggirati1

to vomit up (“swallow up”) to spit out Ud.14 (uggiritvāna); DN-a.i.41 (uggāraṃ uggiranto). Cp. BSk. prodgīrṇa cast out Divy.589.

Sk. udgirati, ud + gṛ2; but BSk. …

ujjavanikāya →

pts

fem. of ujjavanaka used as adv. up-stream, lit “running up” Vin.ii.290 Vin.iv.65 (in expln. of uddhaṃgāmin, opp. ojavanikāya).

ud + javanaka, q.v.

ujju →

pts

Uju & Ujju

adjective straight direct; straightforward, honest, upright DN.iii.150 (T. ujja), DN.iii.352 (do.), DN.iii.422, DN.iii.550; Vv.18#7 (= sabba-jimha-vanka-kuṭilabhāv’âpagama-hetutāya u. …

uju →

pts

Uju & Ujju

adjective straight direct; straightforward, honest, upright DN.iii.150 (T. ujja), DN.iii.352 (do.), DN.iii.422, DN.iii.550; Vv.18#7 (= sabba-jimha-vanka-kuṭilabhāv’âpagama-hetutāya u. …

unnati →

pts

rising, lifting up, elevation Mil.387 (˚avanati)

fr. unnamati; cp. uṇṇati

upa →

pts

upa*, e.g. devūpaṭṭhāna, lokûpaga, puññûpatthambhita-Meanings:

  1. (Rest): on upon, up-˚kiṇṇa covered over; ˚jīvati live on (cp. anu˚); ˚tthambhita propped up, sup-ported; ˚cita heap …

upanisevana →

pts

adjective going close after, following Ja.v.399 [f. ˚ī.).

fr. upanisevati

upasevanā →

pts

serving, pursuing, following, service, honouring, pursuit SN.iii.53 = Mnd.25 Cnd.570 (nand˚ pleasure-seeking); Iti.68 (bāl˚ & dhīr˚) Snp.249 (utu˚ observance of the seasons); Mil.351.

abstr. fr. upasevati

upavana →

pts

kind of wood, miniature wood, park Ja.iv.431; Ja.v.249; Mil.1; Vv-a.170 (= vana), Vv-a.344; Thag-a.201; Pv-a.102 (ārām˚), Pv-a.177 (mahā˚).

upa + vana, see upa 5

upavāhana →

pts

carrying away, washing away Snp.391 (sanghāṭi-raj-ûpa˚ = paṃsu-malādino sanghāṭirajassa dhovanaṃ Snp-a.375).

upa + vāhana

upekhā →

pts

Upekkhā & Upekhā

feminine “looking on”, hedonic neutrality or indifference, zero point between joy & sorrow (Cpd. 66) disinterestedness, neutral feeling, equanimity. Sometimes equivalent to adukkham\ …

upekkhā →

pts

Upekkhā & Upekhā

feminine “looking on”, hedonic neutrality or indifference, zero point between joy & sorrow (Cpd. 66) disinterestedness, neutral feeling, equanimity. Sometimes equivalent to adukkham\ …

upplavana →

pts

at Dhp-a.i.309 remains to be explained, T. faulty.

ussāvana →

pts

proclamation (of a building as legal store house); in -antika within the proclaimed limit Vin.i.239.

= ussāpana

utu →

pts

  1. (lit.)
    1. (good or proper) time, season: aruṇa-utu occasion or time of the sun(-rise) Dhp-a.i.165; utuṃ gaṇhāti to watch for the right time (in horoscopic practice), to prognosticate ibid. *s …

uññātabba →

pts

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 …

vaddheti →

pts

to cut off, is Kern’s proposed reading (see Toev. s. v.) at Ja.vi.527 (siro vaddhayitvāna) for vajjheti (T. reading vajjhayitvāna).

fr. vardh to cut, cp. vaḍḍhaka & vaḍḍhakī

vahati →

pts

  1. to carry, bear, transport Ja.iv.260; Pv-a.14 (= dhāreti); Mil.415 (of iron: carry weight)
    imper vaha Vv.81#17;
    inf vahituṃ Pv-a.122 (perhaps superfluous);
    grd * …

vajjana →

pts

avoidance, shunning Vism.5 (opp. sevana); Dhp-a.iii.417.

fr. vajjati

vajjheti →

pts

to destroy, kill Ja.vi.527 (siro vajjhayitvāna). Kern,

Toevoegselen

s. v. vaddh˚ proposes reading vaddhayitvāna (of a root vardh to cut), cutting off is perhaps better. The expression is hapax …

valaya →

pts

bracelet Vin.ii.106; Ja.ii.197 (dantakāre valay’-ādīni karonte disvā); Ja.iii.377; Ja.vi.64, Ja.vi.65; DN-a.i.50; Dhp-a.i.226 (danta˚ ivory bangle); Pv-a.157 (sankha˚) Mhvs.11, Mhvs.14 (˚anguli-v …

vanaka →

pts

(-) adjective belonging to the forest, forestlike; adj. in cpd. ku˚; (kubbanaka, q.v.) brushwood Snp.1134.

fr. vana1

vanatha →

pts

underwood, brushwood, thicket. Does not occur in lit meaning, except in exegesis of Dhp.283 at Dhp-a.iii.424 q.v. under vana1. Another defn is given at Snp-a.24 “taṇhā pariyuṭṭ …

vanati →

pts

Vanati, Vanute, Vanoti

to desire, love, wish, aim at ask for Snp-a.24 (vanute & vanoti); Dhs-a.364 (vanati bhajati, allīyati). Caus. vanayati Kp-a.111.

van; Sk. vanoti & vanute. See also vana …

vaneja →

pts

born in the woods Ja.ii.446.

vane (loc. of vana1) + ja

vanoti →

pts

Vanati, Vanute, Vanoti

to desire, love, wish, aim at ask for Snp-a.24 (vanute & vanoti); Dhs-a.364 (vanati bhajati, allīyati). Caus. vanayati Kp-a.111.

van; Sk. vanoti & vanute. See also vana …

vanute →

pts

Vanati, Vanute, Vanoti

to desire, love, wish, aim at ask for Snp-a.24 (vanute & vanoti); Dhs-a.364 (vanati bhajati, allīyati). Caus. vanayati Kp-a.111.

van; Sk. vanoti & vanute. See also vana …

vanāyati →

pts

to desire, wish, covet, to hanker after MN.i.260; SN.iii.190. See also allīyati.

Denom. fr. vana2, cp, vanāyati

vanīyati →

pts

to desire Ja.vi.264 C.: (pattheti), Ja.vi.270 (hadayaṃ vanīyati, variant reading dhanīyati: cp allīyati)
■ See also vanati & vaṇeti.

Denom. fr. vani = P. vaṇi

vasa →

pts

power, authority, control, influence SN.i.43, SN.i.240 (kodho vo vasam āyātu: shall be in your power; vasa = āṇāpavattana K.S. i.320); MN.i.214 (bhikkhu cittaṃ vasaṃ vatteti, no ca cittassa vasena v …

vasanta →

pts

spring Ja.i.86; Ja.v.206; Kp-a.192 (bāla˚ = Citra); DN-a.i.132 (˚vana); Pv-a.135.

Vedic vasanta; Idg. *ṷēr, cp. Av. varehar spring, Gr. εἄρ, Lat. vēr, Oicel. vār spring, Lith. vasarā summer.

vatthu →

pts

Vatthu1

neuter lit. “ground,” hence

  1. (lit.) object, real thing, property, thing, substance (cp. vatthu2!) AN.ii.209 (khetta˚, where khetta in lit. sense, cp. No. 2). Here bel …

vatti →

pts

to speak, say, call;
pres not found (for which vadati);
fut 1st sg. vakkhāmi Ja.i.346 3rd vakkhati SN.i.142; Ja.i.356; Ja.ii.40; Ja.vi.352; Vb-a.51 1 …

vaṇeti →

pts

to wish, desire, ask, beg Ja.v.27 (spelt vaṇṇeti C. explains as vāreti icchati); pres. med. 1st pl. vaṇimhase (= Sk. vṛṇīmahe) Ja.ii.137 (= icchāma C.). As vanayati

vaṇi →

pts

wish, request Ud.53; Ja.iv.404 (= yācana C.); cp. J.P.T.S. 1891, 18 See vana2 & cp vaṇeti.

fr. van to desire

vaṇita →

pts

wounded, bruised Pv.ii.2#4; Ja.i.150; Sdhp.395.

pp. of *vaṇeti, Denom. fr. vaṇa

vaṇṇanā →

pts

  1. explanation, commentary, exposition Kp-a.11, Kp-a.145, Kp-a.227; Snp-a.65 (pada˚); Pv-a.2- pāḷi˚; explanation of the text (as regards meaning of words), purely textual analysis (opp. vinicc …

vaṭṭanā →

pts

in -valī is a line or chain of balls (“rounds,” i.e. rings or spindles). Reading somewhat doubtful. It occurs at MN.i.80, MN.i.81 (seyyathā v. evaṃ me piṭṭhi-kaṇṭako unnat’ âvanato hoti; Neumann t …

vedeti →

pts

“to sense,” usually in Denom. function (only one Caus. meaning: see aor. avedi); meaning twofold either intellectually “to know” (cp. veda), or with ref. to general feeling “to e …

veṇu →

pts

bamboo; occurs only in compounds, e.g. -gumba thicket of bamboo Dhp-a.i.177; -tinduka the tree Diospyros Ja.v.405 (= timbaru C.); -daṇḍaka jungle-rope Ja.iii.204 -bali a tax to be paid i …

vibhāvana →

pts

(f.)

  1. making clear, ascertainment, explanation, exposition Ja.iii.389; Vb.342, Vb.343 (ā); Snp-a.13, Snp-a.261 sq., Snp-a.318; Vb-a.409 (ā) Thag-a.76 (ā), Thag-a.230; Pv-a.137, Pv-a.1 …

vibhāvaniya →

pts

adjective pertaining to ascertainment, making clear, explaining Pv-a.244 (paramattha˚).

fr. vibhāvana

vidhāna →

pts

  1. arrangement, get up, performance, process Ja.iii.178 (attano vidhānena “in his robes of office”); Vism.66 sq.; Dhs-a.168 = Vism.122 (bhāvanā˚); Vb-a.69, Vb-a.71 (manasikāra˚) Thag-a.273 (id.). …

vijjā →

pts

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 …

vijāyati →

pts

to bring forth, to bear, to give birth to Sdhp.133; aor. vijāyi Vv-a.220; Pv-a.82 (puttaṃ) ger. vijāyitvā Mhvs.5, Mhvs.43 (puttaṃ); and vijāyitvāna Pv.i. …

vikasati →

pts

Vikasati1

to open (out), to expand, to blossom fully (of flowers)
pp vikasita. Caus. vikāseti to open Ja.vi.364 (hatthaṃ).

vi + kas

Vikas …

vikiraṇa →

pts

adjective

  1. scattering, dispersing; being scattered or dispersed DN.i.11 (cp. DN-a.i.96)
    ■ Vb.358 (T. reads vikī˚; variant reading vikāraṇa & vikkir˚) = Pp.23 (which reads nikaraṇā; trsl. “gui …

vikkhambhana →

pts

withdrawal of support, stopping (the nīvaraṇas or any evil influences or corruptions: kilesa˚), arresting, paralysing; elimination discarding Pts.ii.179; Mnd.6; Cnd.338, Cnd.606#b Ja.iii.15 (kilesa˚ \ …

vikāsa →

pts

opening, expansion Ja.vi.497 (vana˚ opening of the forest); Dhtp.265.

vi + kas: see vikasati1

vilimpati →

pts

to smear, anoint AN.iii.57; Ja.i.265 (ger. ˚itvā); Ja.iii.277 (ppr. ˚anto): Pv.i.10#6 (ger ˚itvāna) Pv-a.62 (˚itvā)
pp vilitta
caus 2 vilimpāpeti to cause to be anointed Ja …

vimāna →

pts

Vimāna1

neuter lit. covering a certain space, measuring; the defns given by Dhpāla refer it to “without measure,” i.e. immeasurable. Thus = vigata-māne appamāṇe mahanta vara-p …

vineti →

pts

  1. to remove, put away, give up
    ppr vinayaṃ Ja.vi.499;
    pot 3rd sg. vinayetha Snp.361, & vineyya Snp.590;
    imper vinaya Snp.1098; * …

vipina →

pts

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

visaritā →

pts

at DN.ii.213 in phrase iddhi˚; is doubtful reading. The gloss (K) has “visevitā.” Trsln (Dial. ii.246) “proficiency.” It is combined with iddhi-pahutā & iddhivikubbanatā. Bdhgh’s e …

visīvana →

pts

warming oneself Ja.i.326; Ja.v.202. As visibbana at Vin.iv.115.

fr. visīveti

vitanoti →

pts

(*vitanati) to stretch out, spread out; poet. ger. vitanitvāna Ja.vi.453
pass vitaniyyati ibid
pp vitata. Cp. vitāna.

vi + tanoti

vivana →

pts

wilderness, barren land SN.i.100; Vv.77#6 (= arañña Vv-a.302); Ja.ii.191, Ja.ii.317.

vi + vana

vyamha →

pts

palace; a celestial mansion, a vimāna, abode for fairies etc. Ja.v.454; Ja.vi.119, Ja.vi.251 (= pura & rāja-nivesa C.); Vv.35#1 (= bhavana Vv-a.160). Cp. byamha.

etym.?

vākya →

pts

saying, speech, sentence, usually found in poetry only, e.g. DN.ii.166 (suṇantu bhonto mama eka-vākyaṃ); AN.ii.34 (sutvā arahato vākyaṃ); AN.iii.40 (katvāna vākyaṃ Asitassa tādino); Snp.1102 (= vacan …

vānara →

pts

monkey, lit. “forester” Thag.399 = Dhp.334; Thag.454; Ja.ii.78 (Senaka), Ja.ii.199 sq. (Nandiya), Ja.iii.429; Ja.iv.308; Ja.v.445; Mil.201; Dhp-a.ii.22.

  • -inda monkey king Ja.i.2 …

vānaya →

pts

in combination suvānaya (SN.i.124, SN.i.238) is to be separated su-v-ānaya (see ānaya).

vārita →

pts

obstructed, hindered Ja.iv.264; restrained (sabbavāri) see vāri.

  • -vata (so read for cārita˚) “having the habit of selfdenial” (translation) SN.i.28 (cp. K.S.

vāsita →

pts

  1. scented Ja.i.65; Ja.ii.235 (su˚); Ja.iii.299; Ja.v.89; Vism.345.
  2. [preferably fr. vāseti1 = vasati2] established, made to be or live, preserved Mhvs.8, Mhvs.2 So also in phr …

vāḷa →

pts

Vāḷa1

  1. a snake Vism.312 (so read for vaḷa).
  2. a beast of prey AN.iii.102 (amanussa); Ja.i.295; Ja.iii.345 (˚macchā predaceous fishes); Mil.23 (˚vana forest of wild beas …

yajati →

pts

to sacrifice, to make an offering (yaññaṃ); to give alms or gifts-In the P. literature it refers (with yañña, sacrifice) either (when critical) to the Brahmanic rites of sacrificing to the gods accor …

yakkha →

pts

…under the authority of Vessavaṇa (Kuvera), one of the 4 lokapālas They are often the direct servants (messengers of Yama himself, the Lord of…

yobbana →

pts

(nf.) youth DN.i.115; AN.i.68; AN.iii.5, AN.iii.66, AN.iii.103; Dhp.155 Dhp.156; Snp.98, Snp.110, Snp.218; Pv.i.7#6; Dhp-a.iii.409; Pv-a.3.

  • -mada pride of youth DN.iii.220; AN. …

yoga →

pts

lit. “yoking, or being yoked,” i.e. connection bond, means; fig. application, endeavour, device

  1. yoke, yoking (rare?) Ja.vi.206 (meant here the yoke of the churning-sticks; cp. Ja.vi.209).
  2. conn …

yogga →

pts

Yogga1

neuter “what may be yoked,” i.e.

  1. a coach, carriage, waggon (usually large & covered, drawn by bullocks) Ja.vi.31 sq. (paṭicchanna), Ja.vi.368 (mahā˚) Dhp-a.ii.151 (mahā˚ & paṭi …

yoni →

pts

  1. the womb.
  2. origin, way of birth, place of birth, realm of existence; nature, matrix There are four yonis or ways of being born or generation viz. aṇḍaja oviparous creation, …

yācana →

pts

(dt.) begging, asking, entreaty Ja.iii.353; Snp-a.161 (inghā ti yācan’ atthe nipāto), Snp-a.551 (id.); Pv-a.113 (= sādhuka).

  • -jīvāna living by begging Ja.iii.353.

fr. yāc

yācati →

pts

to beg, ask for, entreat Vin.iv.129 (pabbajjaṃ) Snp.566, Snp.980, Snp.983; Ja.iii.49, Ja.iii.353; Ja.v.233, Ja.v.404
aor 3rd pl. yāciṃsu Pv-a.13, Pv-a.20, Pv-a.42; ayācisuṃ Mhvs.33 …

yāma →

pts

  1. restraint, only as cpd. cātu-yāma 4-fold restraint DN.i.57; DN.iii.48; SN.i.66; MN.i.377; Vism.416. Cp. Dial. i.751.
  2. a watch of the night. There are 3 watches given as *paṭhama, …

yātrā →

pts

  1. travel, going on, proceeding, good habit (like yāta; cp. yātrā = anuvṛtti Halāyudha 5, 33; SN.i.33; SN.i.16 = SN.i.63 (translation K.S., perhaps wrongly “egress”: it is more a question of *going …

yāva →

pts

adverb

  1. (as prep.) up to (a point), as far as, how far so far that (cp. tāva I), both temporal and local, used either with absolute form of noun or adj. (base), or nom., or abl. or *acc …

ñāṇa →

pts

knowledge, intelligence insight, conviction, recognition, opp. añāṇa avijjā, lack of k. or ignorance.

  1. Ñāṇa in the theory of cognition:
    it occurs in intensive couple-compounds with terms of …

ābhujī →

pts

Name of a tree, the Bhūrja or Bhojpatr Ja.v.195 (bhūjapatta-vana C.), Ja.v.405 (= bhūjapatta C.).

lit. the one that bends, prob. a poetic metaphor

ādeva →

pts

Ādeva, Ādevanā

lamenting, deploring, crying etc. in ster. phrase (explaining parideva or pariddava) ādevo paridevo ādevanā pari˚ ādevitattaṃ pari˚ Mnd.370 = Cnd.416 = Pts.i.38.

ā + div. devati

ādevanā →

pts

Ādeva, Ādevanā

lamenting, deploring, crying etc. in ster. phrase (explaining parideva or pariddava) ādevo paridevo ādevanā pari˚ ādevitattaṃ pari˚ Mnd.370 = Cnd.416 = Pts.i.38.

ā + div. devati

ādeyya →

pts

adjective to be taken up, acceptable, pleasant, welcome, only in phrase -vacana welcome or acceptable speech, glad words Vin.ii.158; Ja.vi.243; Mil.110; Thag-a.42. Adeva, Adevana

grd. of ādāti (q.v.)

ādhāvana →

pts

onrush, violent motion Mil.135.

fr. ādhāvati

ādisati →

pts

  1. to announce, tell, point out, refer to
  2. to dedicate (a gift, dakkhiṇaṃ or dānaṃ).

pres ind. ādisati DN.i.213 = AN.i.170 (tell or read one’s character); Snp.1112 (atītaṃ); Mn …

āhariya →

pts

one who is to bring something Ja.iii.328. Ahavana & Ahavaniya;

grd. of āharati

āhavana →

pts

Āhavana & Āhavanīya

see under āhuneyya.

āhavanīya →

pts

Āhavana & Āhavanīya

see under āhuneyya.

āhuneyya →

pts

adjective sacrificial, worthy of offerings or of sacrifice, venerable, adorable, worshipful DN.iii.5, DN.iii.217 (aggi); AN.ii.56, AN.ii.70 (sāhuneyyaka), AN.ii.145 sq. (id.); AN.iv.13, AN.iv.41 (aggi …

ākoṭeti →

pts

  1. to beat down, pound, stamp Ja.i.264.
  2. to beat, knock, thrash Vin.ii.217; Ja.ii.274; Pv-a.55 (aññamaññaṃ); Sdhp.159.
  3. Esp. with ref. to knocking at the door, in phrases aggaḷaṃ ākoṭeti to bea …

ālimpeti →

pts

…Vin.ii.107; SN.iv.177 (vaṇaṃ)
caus 2 ālimpāpeti Vin.iv.316
pass ālimpīyati Mil.74 & ālippati Dhp-a.iv.166 (variant reading…

āmalakī →

pts

āmalaka Vin.i.30; MN.i.456 (˚vana).

ānaya →

pts

adjective to be brought, in suvānaya easy to bring SN.i.124 = Ja.i.80.

ā + naya

āropeti →

pts

  1. to make ascend, to lead up to (w. acc.) Pv-a.76 (pāsādaṃ), Pv-a.160 (id.)
  2. to put on, take up to (w. acc. or loc.) Pv.ii.9#2 (yakkhaṃ yānaṃ āropayitvāna); Pv-a.62 (sarīraṃ citakaṃ ā.), Pv-a.1 …

ārādheti →

pts

  1. to please, win favour, propitiate, convince Ja.i.337 (dārake), Ja.i.421, Ja.i.452; Ja.ii.72 (manusse); Ja.iv.274 (for ābhirādheti T.); Vism.73 (ārādhayanto Nāthassa vana-vāsena mānasaṃ); Dhp-a.ii …

ārāma →

pts

  1. pleasure, fondness of (-˚), delight, always as adj. (-˚) delighting in, enjoying finding pleasure in (usually combd. with rata, e.g. dhammārāma dhammarata finding delight in the Dh.) S …

āsava →

pts

that which; flows (out or on to) outflow & influx.

  1. spirit, the intoxicating extract or secretion of a tree or flower, O. C in Vin.iv.110 (four kinds); B. on DN.iii.182 (five kinds Dhs-a.48; Kp-a …

āsevana →

pts

āsevanā (f.)

  1. practice, pursuit, indulgence in Vin.ii.117; Pv-a.45.
  2. succession repetition Dhs.1367; Kv.510 (cp. trsl. 294, 362); Vism.538.

fr. āsevati

āsumbhati →

pts

Āsumbhati & Āsumhati

to bring to fall, throw down or round, sling round Vin.iv.263 Vin.iv.265; Vv.50#11 (˚itvāna); Ja.iii.435 (aor. āsumhi, gloss khipi).

ā + śumbh to glide

āsumhati →

pts

Āsumbhati & Āsumhati

to bring to fall, throw down or round, sling round Vin.iv.263 Vin.iv.265; Vv.50#11 (˚itvāna); Ja.iii.435 (aor. āsumhi, gloss khipi).

ā + śumbh to glide

āvedha →

pts

piercing, hole, wound Ja.ii.276 (variant reading aveddha; C. = viddha-ṭṭhāne vaṇa).

cp. Sk. āviddha, ā + pp. of vyadh

āṇi →

pts

…Vin.ii.271 cp. Vin.i.205. (vaṇabandhana-colaka); -dvāra Thag.355; C khuddaka-dvāra, quoted at Brethren 200, trsl. by Mrs Rh. D. as…

Buddha →

puskas

(i.e. 563-483) ‘Megvilágosodott’. A buddhizmus alapítójának, Gótama Sziddhártának a neve, amelyet az általa keresett lényeg felismerése során, azaz a Megvilágosodás kapcsán nyert. Nevezték még Szakjam …

bódhi →

puskas

‘Megvilágosodás’ – a Gautama Sziddhárta által a bódhi-fa (füge: ficus religiosa) alatt ülve elért állapot, amelynek során felismerte, hogyan lehet a szenvedések meghatározta emberi létformából kilé …