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livelihood; way of living; means of subsistence.

Ājīva: ‘livelihood=job=profession=way-of-living’. About right and wrong livelihood., see: sacca IV. 5 and micchā-magga 5.

…= micchājīvaṃ hitvā sammājīvaṃ eva pavattayī Snp-a.382), Snp.617; Pp.51; Vb.107, Vb.235; Mil.229 (bhinna˚); Vism.306 (id.); Dhs-a.390;…

BārānasīBenares

The capital of Kāsi-janapada. It was one of the four places of pilgrimage for the Buddhists - the others being Kapilavatthu, Buddhagayā and Kusināra - because it was at, the Migadā …

JīvakaJīvakakomārabhacca

A celebrated physician, and the Buddha’s doctor. The Vinaya contains many stories of his skill in healing. Vin.i.268–281 Once when the Buddha was ill, Jīvaka found it necessa …

JīvāJīvanti

Daughter of Ubbirī, whose tragic death spurred Ubbirī overcome her attachment. Thig.51

KisasaṅkiccaKisaSaṅkicca

A naked ascetic, contemporary with the Buddha and evidently a well-known head of a school; mentioned in company with Nanda Vaccha and Makkhali Gosāla. MN.i.238

Kisasankicca …

MahākassapaKassapaPippali

One of the Buddha’s most eminent disciples, chief among those who upheld austere practices. AN.i.23 His personal name was Pippali, but he is usually known by his clan name K …

MakkhaliGosāla

One of the six heretical teachers contemporaneous with the Buddha. He held that there is no cause, either ultimate or remote, for the depravity of beings or for their rectitude. The at …

Nanda¹Vaccha

Mentioned in a list of well known leaders of the Ajivakas, the others being Kisa Saṅkicca and Makkhali Gosāla. MN.i.524 They were declared by Purāṇa Kassapa, in his classifica …

Wanderer. The name given to some of the ascetics and recluses of the Buddha’s time. They were not exclusively brahmin. Their presence seems to have been recognized and respected from earlier times. Ge …

An Ājīvaka. He came of a wagon building stock of bygone days. In the Anaṅgaṇa Sutta, MN.i.31f. Moggallāna tells Sāriputta that, one day, when begging alms in Rājagaha, he came to the house of Samīti …

Upaka¹

An Ājivaka whom the Buddha met on his way between Gayā and the Bodhi Tree, after he set out from Isipatana for the preaching of the First Sermon. Upaka questioned the Buddha on his …

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 …

…but finding that Yodhājīva insisted, explained to him that fighting men were reborn after death either in the Sārājita niraya or among…

ĀjīvakāĀjīvikā

A class of naked ascetics, Vin.i.291 followers of Makkhali Gosāla, regarded, from the Buddhist point of view, as the worst of sophists. Numerous references to the Ājīvakas are to be fo …

fit for the communal life

the name of a bird, a sort of a pheasant (or partridge)

lives upon, supports oneself by, makes a living from (+ acc.; occasionally + instr.); is dependent on, serves; makes use of.

naked ascetic (belonging to the community founded by Makkhali Gosāla)

(from ājīvaka) a female naked ascetic.

make a living; lives by.

…livelihood sammā - ājīva 6 right or wrong energy viriya 7 right or wrong awareness or mindfulness sati 8 right or wrong…

Ājīva-pārisuddhi-sīla: ‘morality consisting in purification of livelihood’, is one of the 4 kinds of perfect morality; see: sīla

the higher, moral, code Vin.v.1 (pāṭim˚ +); MN.ii.245 (+ ajjhājīva).

adhi + pāṭimokkha

too rigorous or strenuous a livelihood MN.ii.245 (+ adhipāṭimokkha).

adhi (ati?) + ā + jīv

…clear Iti.107.

• -sājīva one who is thoroughly fit to associate with his fellow AN.iii.81. *…

to live after, i.e. like (acc.), to live for or on, subsist by Ja.iv.271 (= upajīvati, tassânubhāvena jīvitaṃ laddhaṃ (Comm.)
pp anujīvata (q.v.).

anu + jīvati

…-ājīva living in abundance (opp. lūkh’ ājīvin) DN.iii.44, DN.iii.47.

usually -˚, as ˚-only in cpd….

…-ājīva without subsistence, one who has little means to live on, one who leads a poor mode of living Mil.229 sq….

…sīla˚, ācāra˚, d.˚, ājīva˚; opp. ˚sampadā Vin.v.98; DN.iii.213; AN.i.95, AN.i.268; Pp.21; Dhs.1362; Vb.361…

…to study ar.) DN.i.11 (expl. DN-a.i.95 by acchiddaka-gaṇanā); MN.i.85 MN.iii.1 (˚ājīva); DN-a.i.157. -gaṇana-patha (time-)…

(nt. m.)

1. (nt.) archery (as means of livelihood & occupation) MN.i.85; MN.iii.1; SN.i.100 (so read with variant reading; T has issatta, C. explains by usu-sippaṃ K. S. p. 318); Snp.617 (˚ṃ upajī …

Jīva¹

adjective noun

1. the soul. Sabbe jīvā all the souls, enumerated with sattā pāṇā bhūta in the dialect used by the followers of Gosāla DN.i.53 (= DN-a.i.161 jīvasaññī). “taṃ jīvaṃ t …

Jīvaṃ-jīvaka

(m. onom.) name of a bird, a sort of pheasant (or partridge?), which utters a note sounding like jīvaṃ jīva DN.iii.201; Ja.v.406, Ja.v.416; Ja.vi.276, Ja.vi.538. With this cp. the Jain …

Ka˚

(pron. interr.) who? m. ko f. kā (nt. kiṃ, q.v.); follows regular decl. of an atheme with some formations fr. ki˚, which base is otherwise restricted to the nt.
■ From ka˚ also nt. pl. *k …

…of doings enum. under micchājīva DN.i.12 (santikamma, paṇidhi˚, etc.); tassa kammassa katattā through (the performance of) that deed…

…sammāvācā s-kammanta, s-ājīva, viriya, sati, samādhi micchā-diṭṭhi, micchā-vācā, m-kammanta, m-ājīva.

• -aṅgāni the…

…conduct (ibid.); -ājīva living (DN.iii.176 sq., DN.iii.254, DN.iii.290; AN.ii.53, AN.ii.240, AN.ii.270, AN.iv.82); -vāyāma effort…

…Vin.ii.236, MN.i.17.

• -ājīva (adj.) of pure livelihood DN.i.63 (see DN-a.i.181) AN.iii.124 (cp. pārisuddhi).

pari +…

…(˚sīla); Dhs.165; Mil.336 (ājīva˚, and in 4^th jhāna); Vism.30 (= parisuddhatā), Vism.46 (˚sīla), Vism.278; Dhp-a.iii.399…

…of a soldier (yodh’ ājīva) at AN.i.284; of an elephant at Ja.ii.370 (where it is explained as “rāja paribhoga”) Also as “royal…

…of a soldier (yodh’ ājīva) at AN.i.284; of an elephant at Ja.ii.370 (where it is explained as “rāja paribhoga”) Also as “royal…

adverb always Snp.1041, Snp.1087, Snp.1119; Cnd.631 (where long stereotype definition); Dhp.79; Pv.ii.8#11 (= sabbakālaṃ yāvajīvaṃ Pv-a.110); Pv.ii.9#37 (= sabbakālaṃ divase divase sāyañ ca pāto ca P …

Sajīva¹

adjective endowed with life Mhvs.11, Mhvs.13.

sa³ + jīva

Sajīva²

a minister Ja.vi.307, Ja.vi.318 (= amacca C.).

for saciva?

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 …

…Mil.39. -ppadhāna ājīva* right living, right means of livelihood, right occupation Vin.i.10; SN.v.421, etc.; formula…

…right living (sammā-ājīva), right views AN.i.271-Another three as saddhā˚, sīla˚, paññā˚; at AN.i.287. Bdhgh at…

…the precepts upon oneself Vin.i.146; Mil.162; AN.i.238 sq.; AN.iv.15; AN.v.165.

• -sājīva system of training Vin.iii.23…

…Vin.ii.59 sq.

• -ājīva clean livelihood Vb-a.116; Dhp-a.iv.111.
• -ājīvin living a pure life Dhp.366. *…

…adj. ˚-kara one who supports Ja.iv.42 (= sa-ājīvakara, C.).

…indriya-saṃvara, ājīvapārisuddhi, paccaya-sannissita. The same with ref to catubbidha sīla at Ja.iii.195). See also under compounds…

to live on (w. acc.), to depend on, to live by somebody, to be supported by (acc.) DN.i.228; SN.i.217; Snp.612 sq.; Thag.943; Ja.iii.309, Ja.iii.338 Ja.iv.271 (= anujīvati); Pv.ii.9#50 (Ankuraṃ u. ti …

…of morality); AN.i.270 (ājīva˚); AN.iv.26, AN.iv.160 (atta˚ para˚); Pts.i.122; Ja.vi.292; Ne.126 (the 3 vipattiyo sīla˚, diṭṭhi˚,…

1. trade, business MN.ii.360; Snp.614 (˚ṃ upajīvati); Ja.i.495; Ja.ii.133, Ja.ii.202; Ja.v.471; Pv-a.111 Pv-a.278.
2. current appellation, common use (of language), popular logic, common way of defi …

Yāpeti & yapeti

1. (lit.)-
   1. in caus.intensive as well as intrs. sense; in the latter also with short ă; as yapeti and then combined with yāpeti, in …

…Ja.i.180; Mil.293.

• -ājīva one who lives by battle or war, a soldier SN.iv.308 = AN.iii.94; AN.i.284; AN.ii.170,…

Yāpeti & yapeti

1. (lit.)-
   1. in caus.intensive as well as intrs. sense; in the latter also with short ă; as yapeti and then combined with yāpeti, in …

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 …

…(parisuddha˚; + ājīva, dhammadesanā veyyākaraṇa); Vin.iii.90 sq.; Vin.v.164, Vin.v.197; DN.i.76 ≈ (following after the jhānas…

…or lay disciple of the ājīvaka ascetics Vin.ii.130, Vin.ii.165; AN.i.217.

ājīva + ka, orig. “one finding his living” (scil. in a…

…(reads ājīvikā pakatā) = Mil.279.

fr. ājīva

…or lay disciple of the ājīvaka ascetics Vin.ii.130, Vin.ii.165; AN.i.217.

ājīva + ka, orig. “one finding his living” (scil. in a…

adjective noun having one’s livelihood, finding one’s subsistence, living, leading a life of (-˚) DN.iii.64; AN.v.190 (lūkha˚)

fr. ājīva