profit, advantage; benefit, blessing (in, loc.)

…Sdhp.263
■ Eleven ānisaṃsas of mettā (cp. Pts.ii.130) are given in detail at Vism.311 Vism.314; on another eight see pp. Vism.644…

1. (m.) the benefit of combating criticism.
2. (mfn.) possessing or seeking the benefit of combating criticism

1. (m.) the benefit of combating criticism.
2. (mfn.) possessing or seeking the benefit of combating criticism

useful for argumentative challenge, thinking it useful for argumentative challenge

…Vism.64 sq. (contrasted with ānisaṃsa), Vism.572 sq (with ref. to upādāna & bhava); Vb-a.185 (id.); Sdhp.66, Sdhp.457, Sdhp.463
■…

1. giving, dealing out, gift; almsgiving liberality, munificence; especially a charitable gift to a bhikkhu or to the community of bhikkhus, the Sangha (cp. deyyadhamma & yañña). As such it constitute …

…Mhvs.3, Mhvs.42.

• -ānisaṃsa deserving great praise (see s. v.), [cp. BSk. mahānuśaṃsa Mvu.iii.221]. *…

giving up the world leading a holy life, renunciation of, or emancipation from worldliness, freedom from lust, craving & desires, dispassionateness self-abnegation, Nibbāna. Vin.i.18 (˚e ānisaṁsa) DN …

…(id.); Pv-a.1, Pv-a.12 (ānisaṃsaṃ), Pv-a.29 (atthaṃ upamāhi), Pv-a.32 (attānaṃ), Pv-a.40 (adhippāyaṃ), Pv-a.42 (saccāni),…

…phala at Pv.i.12#5 = ānisaṃsa Pv-a.64- Vin.i.293 (anāgāmi˚); Vin.ii.240 (id.); Vin.iii.73 (arahatta˚); DN.i.51 DN.i.57 sq….

…= Snp-a.447.

• -ānisaṃsa whose virtue is training, praise of discipline AN.ii.243; Iti.40 *…

…uddayaṃ patthayāna = ānisaṃsaṃ atirekalābhaṃ Vv-a.336); Vv.84#52 ; Dhp-a.ii.270; Pv-a.146 (ulār vipāka), Pv-a.273 (˚bhūtāni…

rice-gruel, rice-milk (to drink). See Vin. Texts ii.89. Vin.i.46 = Vin.ii.223 (sace yāgu hoti, bhājanaṃ dhovitvā yāgu upanametabbā; yāguṃ pītassa udakaṃ datvā…), 51 (id.), Vin.ii.61 (id.), Vin.ii. …

…(contracted to ānisaṃsa), āsevita-nisevita; ā + pa: assasatipassasati (where both terms are semantically alike; in exegesis…