…obtained insight. Thag.110

Usabha ²

After entering a town for alms while riding an elephant, he became ashamed and attained…

bull; a leader, the best or most excellent (of a group).

…comp^n. forms of usabha are āsabha, isabha (in nisabha) & esabha (q.v.) The relations between usabha, vasabha &…

*Asabha

see usabha.

Sk. ṛṣabha

Aṭṭha¹

num. card, eight, decl. like pl. of adj. in-a A. The number in objective significance, based on natural phenomena: see compounds ˚angula, ˚nakha, ˚pada, ˚pāda B. The number in …

(-˚) a by-form of usabha (q.v.), in cpd. rathesabha.

…“lord of cows,” a bull Snp.26, Snp.27 (usabha).

…a quarter of a yojana = 80 usabhas, a little less than two miles, a league Ja.i.57, Ja.i.59; Ja.ii.209 Vism.118; Dhp-a.i.396.

cp. Vedic gavyūti…

… ■ Cp. abhi˚.

• -usabha an auspicious bull Snp-a.323.
• -chaṇa a merry time, fair Ja.ii.48;…

…set free DN.i.148 (satta usabhasatāni muñcāpeti); Pv-a.43 (yoggāni muñcitvā). 4. to let go, emit, send forth (light) Ja.v.289 (obhāsaṃ…

…Vv.63#7 (isi˚ = ājānīya Vv-a.262).

Sk. nṛ + ṛṣabha, cp. usabha. On relation of usabha: vasabha: nisabha see Snp-a.40

…(gandha˚); Snp-a.39 (usabhaṃ nahāpetvā bhojetvā ˚ṃ datvā mālaṃ bandhitvā).

• -aṅgulika (see…

…-usabha (purisusabha) “a bull of a man,” a very strong man Vin.iii.39.

• -kathā talk about…

…also Sk. ṛṣabha: see usabha¹
■ Dhtp.325 defines as “assādane” 629 as “assāda-snehanesu”;…

…explaining “rathesu usabha-sadiso mahā-ratho ti attho”; as does Bdhgh at Snp-a.321 (on Snp.303): “mahā-rathesu khattiyesu…

adjective red Ja.v.259 (rohaññā pungav’ūsabhā; C. explains by ratta-vaṇṇā). Kern

Toevoegselen

s. v. proposes rohiñño = *rohiṇyah, (cp. pokkharaṇī for ˚iṇī) red cows.

fr. roha = rohita

…given at Abhp.61 are: mesa, usabha, methuna kakkata, sīha, kaññā, tulā, vicchikā, dhanu, makara kumbha, mīna; or the ram, bull, twins, crab,…

…(less than yojana, more than usabha), Dhp-a.i.131, Dhp-a.i.396; Dhp-a.ii.43, Dhp-a.ii.61, Dhp-a.ii.64, Dhp-a.ii.69; Dhp-a.iii.202,…

…Vv-a.83 (id.).

the Sanskritic-Pāli form (*vṛṣabha) of the proper Pāli usabha (q.v. for etym.). Only in later…

…rain, vṛṣabha (P. usabha), Av. varšna virile, Lat. verres boar; Gr. α ̓́ρρην virile, ε ̓́ρση dew with which root is…

…Pp.56 (miga˚); Tha-ap.50 (usabha˚); Ja.i.505; Mil.103. 2. (see [as m.](/define/as m.)) the tusks of an elephant Ja.iii.184; Ja.v.41, Ja.v.48.

*…

…AN.iii.101; Snp.416 (˚usabha); Tha-ap.68 (˚rājā); Ja.i.357; Ja.iii.192 (subāhu); Ja.v.14 (giri-sānuja)
■ f. viyagghinī (biy˚…

…scale of yojana-tigāvuta-usabha at Dhp-a.i.108. Dhp.60; Ja.v.37 (yojana-yojana-vitthatā each a mile square); Snp-a.194. More favoured…

…(for alinda), āsabha (fr. usabha).

Ā˚⁴

infix in repetition-compounds denoting accumulation or variety (by contrast with the…

…corresponding to Sk. ārṣabha → ṛṣabha, see usabha