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

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

1. avīciniraya, one of the (great) hells (see niraya), described in vivid colours at many passages of the Pāli canon, e.g at…

…but to a period of time in Avīci.

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

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

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

5hell

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

5hell

…and he was swallowed up in Avīci.

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

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

5river

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

5hell

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

5hell

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

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

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

able to discern the goal or what is beneficial

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1. ayo˚
   • -kapāla…

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

1. ayo˚
   • -kapāla…

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

…Snp-a.290 (Avīci-ādi-˚ niraya).

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

…DN.i.102 (= DN-a.i.270); of Avīciniraya Iti.86; Ja.iv.3; Pv.i.10#13; cp. Catudvāra Jātaka (No. 439; Ja.iv.1 sq.); -nahuta…

…Ja.i.67.

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

cp. Sk. koṭi & kūṭa²

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

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

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

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

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

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

… * -avīci the great Purgatory Avīci, freq.

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

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

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

Pacinati & Pacināti

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

Pacinati & Pacināti

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

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

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

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

pa + vicinati

…Mil.187; aya˚ iron soil (of Avīci Dhp-a.i.148. In compound both paṭhavī˚ & pathavi˚.

• -ojā (paṭhavojā) sap or…

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

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

pp. of ussāreti²

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

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

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