heaven; the sky.

adverb & feminine

1. by day; in the day.
2. in the middle of the day; rather late (after the midday meal)

…a whole day Ja.iv.118 (cp. divasa˚)

Sk. diva (nt.), weak base diṷ (div) of strong form di̯ē (see deva) to *dei̯eṷo…

…-kara (= divaṃ kara) the day-maker, the sun Thag-a.70 (Ap.v.16); Pv-a.155;

• -divassa (adv.) early in the day, at…

PilindavacchaPilindivacchaPilindiyavacchaPilindaPilindiPilindiya

A monk whose enigmatic Theragāthā verse speaks of what has come and not departed….

…himself, each sitting on the divan of a Tāvatiṃsā Deva, and addresses the Devas, speaking of the advantages of taking refuge in the Buddha, the…

A name given to Sakka.

TāvatiṃsāTidasāTidiva

The second of the six deva-worlds, the first being the Cātummahārājika world. Tāvatiṃsā stands at the top of…

day; day.

during the day.

indeclinable in the middle of the day; rather late in the day.

indeclinable by night and day.

rest, sleep in the daytime; a siesta.

sleeping in the daytime.

, adv. rather late; later on in the day.

seclusion for rest and meditation by day (after the midday meal)

1. (m.n) the (third) deva-world; a deva-world.
2. (m.pl.) the inhabitants of that deva-world; gods.

Aha¹

indeclinable exclamation of surprise, consternation, pain etc “ch! alas! woe!”. Perhaps to be seen in cpd. -kāmā miserable pleasures lit. “woe to these pleasures!”) gloss at Thag- …

…a³) and dyā an old loc. of dyaus (see diva), thus “on this day”

…a³) and dyā an old loc. of dyaus (see diva), thus “on this day”

adjective studying, learning MN.i.100; Dhp.226 (ahoratta˚ = divā ca rattiñ ca tisso sikkhā sikkhamāna Dhp-a.iii.324).

fr. anusikhati

…(n’); Ja.i.59 (aparaṃ divasaṃ on some day following); Ja.iii.51 (apare tayo sahāyā “other friends three” i.e. three friends, cp….

adverb late in the day, in the afternoon Vin.i.70 (+ atikālena); SN.i.200; AN.iii.117.

ati + divā

…of a month), Pv-a.74 (kati divasā ˚ā how many days have passed).

• -mānusaka superhuman Iti.100; Pp.60; cp. BSk…

in instr. atikālena adv. in very good time very early Vin.i.70 (+ atidivā).

ati + kāla

adverb late in the night, at midnight Ja.i.436 (opp. atipabhāte).

ati + ratti; cp. atidivā

…ṭhiti yamhi vā tamhi vā divase āgacchatī ti atithi Kp-a.222); Vv-a.24 (= āgantuka).

Sk. atithi of at = at, see aṭati; orig. the…

…that“ Snp.224; ime divase these days (just gone) Ja.ii.416; cp. also Vin.i.84; Snp.429; Ja.ii.128 Ja.ii.160 3. It refers to *what…

…half a divan Vin.ii.280.

• -bhāga half a share, one half Vv.13#6 (= upaḍḍhabhāga Vv-a.61)…

…a couple e.g. sattaṭṭha divasā, a weck or so Ja.i.86; Ja.ii.101; Vv-a.264 (saṃvaccharā years) 2. used as definite measure of quantity…

…cātuddasī pañcadasī ca aṭṭhamī); AN.i.142; Snp.570 (ito atthami scil. divase, loc.).

Sk. aṣṭama, see…

sort of spear Ja.vi.105, Ja.vi.248 Abhp.394.

Non-Aryan; Epic Sk. bhindipāla spear, but cp Prk bhiṇḍi-māla & ˚vāla, Pischel, Prk. Gr. § 248 see also Geiger, P.Gr. § 38

…cases adverbially: tena divasa-bhāgena (+ ratti bhāgena) at that day (& that very night) Mil.18; apara-bhāge (loc.) in future…

… 3. taṃ rattiyā ca divasassa ca añña-d-eva uppajjati aññaṃ nirujjhati SN.ii.95, cf. Thag-a.1 on 125.

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…(2 × 5) Matt. 25, 1) divase divase dasa dasa putte vijāyitvā (giving birth to 10 sons day by day) Pv.i.6 2. impersonal: 10…

…dibba & diva), orig. adj. *deiṷos belonging to the sky, cp. Av. daēvō (demon.), Lat. deus, Lith. dë̃vas; Ohg. Ƶīo;…

…Vv-a.75; Dhp-a.i.28; Dhp-a.ii.41.

Der. fr. divasa

… grd dhareyya, in dh˚divasa the day when a young girl is to be carried (into the house of her husband) Thag-a.25; cp. dhāreyya Thig.472 =…

adjective of the next world, divine, heavenly, celestial, superb magnificent, fit for exalted beings higher than man (devas, heroes, manes etc.), superhuman, opp. mānusaka human. Freq. qualifying the …

…Oir. denus; Goth. sin-teins; cp. divasa

…day Pv-a.81. Also repeated divase divase day after day, every day Ja.i.87; Pv-a.3. abl. divasato from the day (-˚) Ja.i.50; DN-a.i.140.

*…

…(ek-uddesa) Ja.i.59 (ekadivasena on the one day only, i.e. on the same day); Dhp.395; Snp.35, Snp.1136 (see Cnd.172#a), ekaṃ ekaṃ one by…

…usually -˚: nāma˚-divase on the day on which a child gets its name (lit. acquiring a name) Ja.i.199, Ja.i.262 arahatta˚ Dhp-a.i.8;…

the blue water lily, Nymphaea Stellata or Cassia Fistula Ja.v.92 (˚ī-samā ratti); Ja.vi.536; Vv.45#1 (= uddālaka-puppha Vv-a.197).

etym.?

…(ito aṭṭhame, scil. divase 8 days ago Snp-a.457; T. reads atthami); Vv-a.319 (ito kira tiṃsa-kappa-sahasse); Pv-a.19 (dvā navuti…

…uggaṇhāti); -divasa the day of birth, birthday Ja.iii.391 Ja.iv.38; -maṅgala birth…

to cause to fit, to create, build, construct arrange, prepare, order.

I. lit

1. in special sense: to prepare, get done, i.e. harness: Ja.i.62; plait DN-a.i.274, an offering (yaññaṃ) Snp.1 …

…doing evil; divā˚ & divasa the day-maker, i.e. the sun; kaṇhabhāva˚ causing a “black” existence (of pāpakamma) Ja.iv.9;…

…˚gandhaṃ Ja.vi.336; ˚divasaṃ Ja.ii.251; ˚nagarato (from what city) Dhp-a.i.390; ˚nāma (kataraṃnāma, adj.) (of what name) ibid
■…

…ayo˚; (in simile “diva-santatte ayokaṭāhe”) MN.i.453 = AN.iv.138 gūtha˚; Vin.iv.265; tumba˚; (a gourd used as receptacle for…

…Pv.ii.8#1; tvaṃ ettakaṃ divasaṃ k˚ gatā where have you been all these days Pv-a.6; Pv-a.13; Pv-a.42; indef. kuhiñci, anywhere, with na…

…at DN-a.i.141 as “divasa-mās’-ādīnaṃ lakkhaṇaṃ bhavituṃ yuttā”); Ja.v.370 (˚sammata considered auspicious).

fr….

…see mangalika

• -divasa a lucky day Ja.iv.210; Dhp-a.iii.467.
• -vappa ploughing festival…

…Vv-a.224, Vv-a.271 (divasa-kara˚); canda˚ Vism.174; Pv-a.65. 3. a round, flat surface, e.g. jānu˚ the disk of the knee, i.e. the…

…Ja.iv.267; or as pp. ekadivasaṃ migavaṃ gata Vv-a.260; ekāhaṃ m. g. Mhvs.5, Mhvs.154.

= Sk. mṛgayā, cp. Geiger,

Pali Grammar

…

…beginning, base, in mūladivasa the initial day DN-a.i.311; also in phrase mūlakāraṇato right from the beginning Vv-a.132 (cp. BSk…

…christened“ Ja.i.262 (˚divasa)

• -gotta ancestry, lineage SN.i.43 (˚ṁ na jīrati) Snp.648 Cnd.385 (mātāpettikaṁ n.)
• -dheyya…

stopping, interruption Ja.iii.214 (read assu-pacchijjana-divaso? passage corrupt.).

fr. last

…āsanaṃ bandhati.“ 2. a divan, sofa, couch Vin.ii.163, Vin.ii.170 (cp. Vin. Texts iii.209, which is to be corrected after Dial. i.12);…

1. exact determination, circumscription range, definition, connotation, measure Ja.iii.371; Vism.184 (as one of the nimittas of the body), Vism.236 (referring to the 5 nimittas of the life-principle) …

secluded, retired, gone into solitude abstracted, plunged in meditation, separated Vin.i.101 (rahogata +); DN.i.134, DN.i.151; SN.i.71, SN.i.146 sq. (divāvihāragata +), SN.i.225; SN.ii.74 (rahogata …

…See Vin.i.225 (phālo divasantatto, so read; variant reading balo corr. to bālo; corresp. with guḷa); AN.iv.70 (divasa-santatte…

…puna-divase: aparadivase all of which show the close relation between pi puna, apara, but we never find…

…= purima Ja.i.345 (˚divase the day before).

• -attabhāva a former existence Vv-a.78; Pv-a.83, Pv-a.103…

…(Phagguṇa-puṇṇama-divase); Vv-a.66 (āsāḷhi p.); Pv-a.137 (id.); DN-a.i.140; Dhp-a.iii.461 (komudi).

• -māsa = ˚mā only in…

…ratti, ahā (sic lege!) ti divaso, rattiñ ca divañ ca.“ Otherwise only in foll. adv. expressions (meaning either “time” or “night”): …

…foll. combinations: rattin-diva [cp. BSk. rātrindiva = Gr. νυξχήμερον, Avs.i.274, Avs.i.278; Avs.ii.176; Divy.124] a day & a night…

…Pv.ii.9#37 (= sabbakālaṃ divase divase sāyañ ca pāto ca Pv-a.127), Pv.iv.1#30.

• -matta “always revelling,” Name of…

…MN.i.453; SN.i.169 (divasa˚); Ja.iv.118; Mil.325; Pv-a.38 (soka˚).

pp. of santappati

Santatta²

frightened, disturbed…

…cp. satta-satta-divasā Ja.v.443.

• -ussada (see ussada 2) having 7 prominences or…

…Snp.437. Often in loc. -divase on the 7th day Snp.983; Ja.i.395; Mil.15; Pv-a.6, Pv-a.74. -bhavika one who has reached the 7^th…

bed, couch MN.i.502; AN.i.296; Vin.ii.167 (˚aggena by the surplus in beds); Snp.29, Snp.152 Snp.535; Dhp.305, Dhp.309; Pv.ii.3#11; Pv.iv.1#2; Ja.vi.197 (gilāna sick-bed). Four kinds AN.ii.244; Vb-a. …

…of sorrow Pv-a.41. pl.

• -divasā the days of mourning (at the king’s court after the death of the queen) Snp-a.89. *…

…seen Snp.178 Snp.p.143 -divasa a lucky day Ja.iv.209. -dujjaya difficult to win Mhvs.26, Mhvs.3….

…Ja.ii.47; Vv-a.230; svedivasa Dhp-a.i.103. The diaeretic form is suve, e.g. Pv.iv.1#5; Mhvs.29, Mhvs.17; and doubled *suve…

…same Mhvs.20, Mhvs.36; ˚-divasa Vin.iii.285; sādhu-kīḷā Ja.iii.434; Ja.v.127; sādhu-kīḷikā Ja.iii.433. *…

six days (cp. chāha) Ja.vi.80 (= chadivasa, C.).

…tam-ah-uposathe, uposatha-divase ti at Snp-a.502); tadahe on the same day Pv-a.46; tadahū (id.) Ja.v.215 (= tasmiṃ chaṇa-divase)…

to shine, to be bright, Dhp.387 (divā tapati ādicco, etc. = virocati Dhp-a.iv.143); Snp.348 (jotimanto narā tapeyyuṃ), Snp.687 (suriyaṃ tapantaṃ)
ger tapanīya: see sep pp. *ta …

…reading daṇḍa only). -diva the 3 heavens (that is the Tāvatiṃsa heaven) DN.ii.167, DN.ii.272 (tidivûpapanna) SN.i.96…

the Uddāla tree, Cassia Fistula (see [known as indīvara](/define/known as indīvara)), or Cordia Myxa lit. “uprooter” Vv.6#7 (= vātaghātako yo rājarukkho ti pi vuccati Vv-a.43); Ja.iv.301 (˚rukkha), J …

…observance of the Up. (Vv-a.71) The Up. day or Sabbath is also called uposatha-divasa (Ja.iii.52).

Vedic upavasatha, the eve of the Soma…

…262 f. (khaṇa); Mil.127 (˚divasa); Vism.571 sq. (˚bhava 9 fold: kāma˚ etc.); Snp-a.46, Snp-a.159, Snp-a.241, Snp-a.254, Snp-a.312,…

feast, making merry, holiday Vin.iii.249; Ja.i.475; Ja.ii.13, Ja.ii.248; Vv-a.7, Vv-a.109 (˚divasa).

Sk. utsava

…Lent; cp. antovass’ eka-divasaṃ one day during Lent Mhvs.18, Mhvs.2; antara-vassaṃ id SN.iv.63. 2. (nt.) a year AN.iv.252 (mānusakāni…

…Sāvatthiyā niyyāti divā divaṃ); MN.ii.208 (id.), but *vaḷavābhi-*rathena); Ja.vi.266 (vaḷabhiyo = bhaṇḍa-sakaṭiyo C.). The…

1. (as m. & adj.) spending one’s time (sojourning or walking about), staying in a place, living place of living, stay, abode (in general) Vv-a.50 (jala˚) Pv-a.22, Pv-a.79; eka˚; living by oneself …

…Vism.2; Snp-a.188 (˚divasa) Pv-a.13 (˚cittatā); Sdhp.447. A class of divine beings (dogmatically the highest in the stages of…

…what time DN.i.152 (= mūladivasato paṭṭhāya yaṃ divasaṃ aggaṃ patvā DN-a.i.311); Vv.84#33 (= yato paṭṭhāya Vv-a.344) Also as…

…= yebhuyyena mangalakiriya-divasesu dinna-dānaṃ)
■ suyiṭṭha well given or spent AN.ii.44; Thag-a.40;…

…Pv-a.167; y. satta divasā up to 7 days, as long as 7 days Pv-a.31. 3. with abl.: y brahmalokā up to the highest heaven AN.iii.17;…

…+…

…heavenly regions SN.i.21; tidivaṃ SN.i.96; saggaṃ ṭh. a happy condition Pv.i.1#3; pitu gata the place where my father went (after death)…