1. (mfn.) deep; dense, thick; a dense of growth; entangled, overgrown, impenetrable.
2. (n.) a place hard to pass through; a hiding place.

seizing, taking hold of; grasping; grasp: acquiring.

…(in expl. of Satthā; rāgagahanaṃ tāreti); Dhp-a.iv.156 (on Dhp.394) Vv-a.96
■ manussa˚ MN.i.340.

• -ṭṭhāna a lair in…

adjective seizing, taking; acquiring; (n.) seizure, grasp, hold, acquisition Vism.114 (in detail) usually -˚: nāma˚-divase on the day on which a child gets its name (lit. acquiring a name) Ja.i.199, …

submersion, see avagahana, avagāhati & avagāhana.

fr. last

relying on or taking refuge in a hiding place.

bathing place; a ford.

1. (n.) a place overgrown with grass.
2. (mfn.) a place dense with grass; a clump of grass or hay.

1. (temporal) lapse, passing; passing away, end, death. Usually as instr. accayena after the lapse of, at the end or death of, after Vin.i.25; DN.ii.127 (rattiyā a.), DN.ii.154 ( …

Accharā¹

feminine the snapping of the fingers, the bringing together of the finger-tips:

1. (lit.) accharaṃ paharati to snap the fingers Ja.ii.447; Ja.iii.191; Ja.iv.124, Ja.iv.126 Ja. …

adjective free from attachment (opp. sādāna) AN.ii.10 = Iti.9 = Iti.109 = Cnd.172#a; Snp.620, Snp.741 Snp.1094; Cnd.41 (where as nt. = taṇha); Dhp.352 (= khandhādisu niggahaṇa Dhp-a.iv.70), 396, 406, …

Arahatta¹

neuter the state or condition of an Arahant, i.e. perfection in the Buddhist sense = Nibbāna (SN.iv.151) final & absolute emancipation Arahantship, the attainment of the last & h …

…a tree, shrub, wood Ja.i.108 (d
■ tiṇagaccha a jungle of wood & grass); Ja.v.46 (d
■ gahana a thicket of shrubs & trees); Vism.353…

…doctrine Dpvs.vi.25; -gahana the thicket of speculation Dhs.381, Dhs.1003; see ˚*gata*;…

Dussa¹

neuter woven material, cloth, turban cloth; (upper) garment, clothes Vin.i.290 Vin.ii.128, Vin.ii.174; Vin.iv.159. DN.i.103; SN.v.71; MN.i.215; MN.ii.92; AN.v.347; Snp.679; Pv.i.10# …

female servant, a handmaiden a slave-girl Vin.i.217, Vin.i.269, Vin.i.291; Vin.ii.10 (kula˚), Vin.ii.78, Vin.iii.161; MN.i.125; MN.ii.62 (ñāti˚); Pv.ii.3#21 (ghara˚); Pv-a.46, Pv-a.61, Pv-a.65
■ …

Gaha¹

a house, usually in compounds (see below). Ja.iii.396 (= the layman’s life; Com. geha).

• -kāraka a house-builder, metaph. of taṇhā (cp. kāya as geha) Dhp.153, …

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 …

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 …

, 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. …

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

1. mud Ja.i.12, Ja.i.73; Mil.125, Mil.324, Mil.346; Mhbv.150; Pv-a.215 (= kaddama); Dhp-a.iii.61; Dhp-a.iv.25- su˚; “well-muddied” i.e. having soft soil (of a field Mil.255.
2. the residue of s …

…and torture Ja.iii.41.

• -gahana a thorny thicket or jungle SN.ii.228.
• -gumba a th. bush Ja.i.208. *…

adjective auspicious prosperous, lucky, festive Mnd.87, Mnd.88; Kp-a.118 sq. Snp-a.273, Snp-a.595; Sdhp.551
■ nt. maṅgalaṃ good omen auspices, festivity Snp.258; Vin.ii.129; Pv-a.17. A curious …

adverb wrongly, in a wrong way, wrong-, false Snp.438 (laddho yaso), Snp.815 (paṭipajjati leads a wrong course of life, almost syn with anariyaṃ. Illustrated by “pāṇaṃ hanati, adinnaṃ ādiyati, sandhi …

adjective without acquisitions, i.e. poor Ja.ii.367 (variant reading BB. as gloss nirāhāra).

Sk. *nirgahaṇa, cp. nirgṛha homeless; nis + gahaṇa

restraint Vism.134 (cittassa). Opp. pagg˚.

abstr. fr. ni + gṛh, cp. next

touching, crushing Mil.270 (na vāto hattha-gahaṇaṃ vā nimmaddanaṃ vā upeti the wind cannot be grasped).

nis + mṛd

name.

1. Literal. nom. nāmaṃ SN.i.39; Snp.808; Ja.ii.131; Mil.27; acc. nāmaṃ Pv-a.145 (likhi: he wrote her name)
   ■ nāmaṃ karoti to give a name Snp.344 Cnd.466 (n’ etaṃ nāmaṃ mātarā kataṃ on “ …

…nahāna-tittha Snp-a.265). See also avagāhana.

o + gahana fr. gāhati; Sk. avagāhana; concerning shortening of ā…

plunging into (-˚) Pv-a.158.

fr. ogāhati

1. return to, going into (acc.) visiting Ja.i.154 (gāmantaṃ ˚kāle).
2. withdrawal, distraction, drawing or moving away, heresy Snp.538 (ogahanāni titthāni, diṭṭhiyo ti attho Snp-a.434).

fr. avasarati

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 …

stretching forth, lifting, holding out; of the hands as sign of respectful salutation (cp. añjaliṃ paggaṇhāti) Ja.iii.82-Abstr. -tā = paggaha 1. Vism.134.

fr. pa + gṛh, cp. paggaṇhāti

jumped on, fallen on to or into, chanced upon, acquired MN.i.39; Thag.342 (diṭṭhigahanā˚) Ja.v.471; Mil.144 (saṃsaya˚), Mil.156, Mil.390 (kupatha˚).

pp. of pakkhandati; often wrongly spelt pakkhanta

…(with pariyesana & paṭiggahana) Dhp-a.i.60; Pv-a.25, Pv-a.26, Pv-a.220
■ Four paribhogas are distinguished at Ja.v.253 and at…

…(su˚); SN.i.331 (read valligahana˚); Pv.iv.3#36 (variant reading for pariyanta as in Pv.i.10#13) Vism.71 (of gāma); Thag-a.70; Dhp-a.i.42…

-na (nt.) search, quest, inquiry

1. (-nā) DN.ii.58, DN.ii.61, DN.ii.280 (twofold, viz. sevitabbā and asevitabbā); DN.iii.289; MN.i.161 (twofold, viz ariyā & anariyā); AN.ii.247 (id.); SN.i.143; …

ā (f.) plunging into, penetration Pts.i.106, Pts.i.112; Pts.ii.183; Dhs.390 (a˚), Dhs.425 (a˚); Pp.21 (a˚); Dhs-a.260.

pari + ogāhana

acceptance, receiving, taking MN.iii.34; SN.v.472; Snp-a.341
■ accaya˚ acceptance of a sin, i.e. pardon, absolution Ja.v.380.

fr. paṭigganhāti

adjective noun receiving, receiver Pv-a.175. Patigganhati (patiganhati)

paṭiggaṇhana (= paṭiggahaṇa) + ka

reception, taking in Ja.vi.527.

fr. paṭiggaṇhāti

at Vin.iv.46 (paṭāṇi dinnā hoti) is not clear, it is explained by Bdhgh as “mañcapidhānaṃ (for ˚pīṭhānaṃ pādasikhāsu āṇi dinno hoti.” At DN-a.i.77 we find the foll. “visūkaṃ paṭāni (sic.)-bhūtaṃ das …

1. basket Vin.i.225 (ghaṭa p. ucchanga), Vin.i.240 (catudoṇika p.); Pv.iv.3#33; Vism.28 (piṭake nikkhitta-loṇa-maccha-phāla-sadisaṃ phaṇaṃ); dhañña˚ a grain-basket Dhp-a.iii.370; vīhi˚; a ri …

…here in sense of “hatthena gahana-yogga” Vv-a.8; exlp^d by Bdhgh as “chinn’ iriyāpatha” Vin. Texts i.225) Ja.i.76,…

…-gahana tree-thicket or entanglement AN.i.154 (so for ˚gahaṇa). -devatā a tree spirit,…

Sama¹

calmness, tranquillity, mental quiet Snp.896. samaṃ carati to become calm quiescent Ja.iv.172. Cp. -cariyā & ˚cārin.

fr. śam: see sammati¹

Sa …

adjective firm, well-supported Ja.v.484.

fr. sangaṇhāti

one of the most difficult terms in Buddhist metaphysics, in which the blending of the subjective-objective view of the world and of happening peculiar to the East, is so complete, that it is almost i …

set of precepts, “preceptorial,” code of training; instruction, precept, rule

1. in general: DN.i.63, DN.i.146, DN.i.250; MN.i.33; AN.i.63, AN.i.235 sq. AN.ii.14, AN.ii.250 sq.; AN.iii.113, AN.iii.26 …

art, branch of knowledge, craft Snp.261; AN.iii.225; AN.iv.281 sq., AN.iv.322; DN.iii.156, DN.iii.189; Ja.i.239, Ja.i.478; Mil.315; excludes the Vedas Mil.10 sabbasippāni Ja.i.356, Ja.i.463; Ja.ii.53; …

…Mhvs.27; Ja.i.266. -gahana a good grip, tight seizing Ja.i.223. -gahita and suggahīta, grasped…

…stake Ja.vi.279 --gahana Ja.v.254; a-suṃkâraha Ja.v.254.

• -ghāta customs’ frontier Vin.iii.47,…

Takka¹

doubt; a doubtful view (often diṭṭhi, appl. like sammā˚, micchā-diṭṭhi), hair-splitting reasoning, sophistry (= itihītihaṃ Cnd.151). Opp. to takka (= micchā-sankappo Vb.86, Vb.35 …

…of g Dhp-a.iv.121;

• -gahana a thicket of g., a jungle AN.i.153
• -cuṇṇa crushed & powdered…

basil (common or sweet) Ja.v.46 (˚gahana a thicket of b.; variant reading tūlasi); Ja.vi.536 (tuḷasi = tuḷasigaccha).

Derivation unknown

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. …

learning, taking up, studying Pv-a.3 (sipp˚). As uggaṇhana at Vism.277.

fr. uggaṇhāti

to take up, acquire, learn [cp. BSk. udgṛhṇāti in same sense, e.g. Divy.18 Divy.77 etc.] Snp.912 (uggahaṇanta = uggahaṇanti = uggaṇhanti Snp-a.561); imper. uggaṇha Ja.ii.30 (sippaṃ); uggaṇhāhi Mi …

crookedness, perverting justice taking bribes to get people into unlawful possessions (Bdhgh.) DN.i.5; DN.iii.176; SN.v.473; AN.ii.209, AN.v.206; DN-a.i.79 = Pp-a.240 (“assāmike sāmike kātuṃ lañcaga …

…Ja.v.427, Ja.v.429.

• -gahana jungle thicket Vism.647 (in simile).
• -gumba a dense cluster of trees…

1. increase growth (cp.; Cpd. 251 sq.) SN.iv.250 (ariya˚); Ja.ii.426 (= phāti); Mil.109 (guṇa˚); Dhs-a.327; Dhp-a.iii.335 (avaḍḍhi = parihāni).
2. welfare, good fortune, happiness Ja.v.101; Ja.vi. …

“carrying or sending away,” i.e. marriage, wedding DN.i.99; Snp.p.105; Pv-a.144; Snp-a.448 (where distinction āvāha = kaññā-gahaṇaṃ, vivāha kaññā-dānaṃ)
■ …

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 …

1. the yoke of a plough (usually) or a carriage Dhp-a.i.24 (yugaṃ gīvaṃ bādhati presses on the neck); Pv-a.127 (ratha˚); Sdhp.468 (of a carriage) Also at Snp.834 in phrase dhonena yugaṃ samāgamā w …