…The five Nikāyas are enumerated also at Vism.711; one is referred to at Snp-a.195 (pariyāpuṇāti master by heart). See…

…period in which the 4 great Nikāyas grew up.]

• -kathā discourse on philosophical or psychological matters, MN.i.214,…

…to the very close of the Nikāya period. But it is based on older material. Descriptions of each of the six, not called abhiññās, and…

…probable that already in the Nikāya period the older wider meaning was falling into disuse. The Abhidhamma books seem to refer only to the…

…see Index to Saṃyutta Nikāya.

• -vyābādha personal harm or distress self-suffering, one’s own disaster (opp….

…the older literature (the 4 Nikāyas) are the foll. forms with o: okiri, okkanti, okkamati okkhipati, ogacchati, ossajati

1. The Pāli form (o˚…

…& cp. Franke, Dīgha Nikāya p. 60); MN.i.515; SN.iii.207.

• -ācchanna covered by ashes Dhp.71 (= chārikāya paṭichanna…

…& cp. Franke, Dīgha Nikāya p. 60); MN.i.515; SN.iii.207.

• -ācchanna covered by ashes Dhp.71 (= chārikāya paṭichanna…

…the Bh. of Majjhima Nikāya) Snp-a.2 (of Sutta Nipāta), Snp-a.608 (id.); Dhs-a.6 (of Dhammasangaṇī, cp. Expos. 8 n. 3), and…

…In compounds cariyā˚.

• -piṭaka the last book in the Khuddaka-nikāya
• -manussa a…

…Occurring in the Nikāyas in sg. only, it came to be used in pl. and, as an ultimate category, the 52 cetasikas, with citta as bare…

…& out of 150 cases in the Nikāyas only 3 times in the plural (= thoughts). The substantiality of citta (cetas is also evident from its…

…Dhp-a.i.280;

• -nikāya a class, community or group of gods, celestial state or condition DN.ii.261 (sixty…

…by the compilers of the 5 Nikāyas (dhamma-vinayaṃ sangāyantehi dhammasangāhakehi ekato katvā Vv-a.3; cp. mayaṃ dh.˚ṃ ca vinayañ ca…

…Name of the Dīgha Nikāya (“the long collection”) Vism.96.

• -aṅgulin having long fingers (the 4th of the marks of a…

…(-nikāya) is another title for Anguttarika-nikāya Mil.392.

• -ūna one less, minus one usually as…

…by heart one, two or all Nikāyas. Always combined w. vipassanādhuraṃ the burden of contemplation Dhp-a.i.8; Dhp-a.iv.37; *…

…used from the end of the Nikāya period to designate one, whether layman or bhikkhu, who, as converted, was no longer of the worldlings…

…references to Indra in the Nikāyas should be classed with the other fragments of Vedic mythology to be found in them. Sakka belongs only to the…

…fourth book of the Khuddaka-nikāya, named thus because every sutta begins with vuttaṃ h’ etaṃ Bhagavatā “thus has the Buddha said” (see…

…Ja.v.495; Pv.ii.9#49 (= sattanikāya, people, a crowd Pv-a.134).

Vedic jantu, see janati

Jantu²

a grass Vin.i.196.

…word is not found in the 4 Nikāyas but it occurs on the Bharhut Tope (say, end of 3rd cent. b.c., and is frequent in the Jātaka book. 3. the…

…(with examples) bhava, nikāya, sankhata-lakkhaṇa paṭisandhi, pasūti, kula, ariya-sīla
■ Kiṃ hi jāti karissati? What…

…to nikāya (deva˚ DN.iii.264; and cp. formula of jāti: sattānaṃ tamhi tamhi sattanikāye jāti… Cnd.257.

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Kūṭa¹

neuter a trap, a snare; fig. falsehood, deceit. As trap Ja.i.143 (kūṭapāsādi); Ja.iv.416 (explⁿ paṭicchannapāsa). As deceit, cheating in formula tulā˚ kaṃsa māna˚ “cheatin …

…Mil.242 & Mil.258 in Majjhimanikāya vara˚; at Mil.362 in Ekuttara-nikāya-vara˚ and at Ne.2 in cpd. nayalañjaka. Trenckner (Mil ed. p. 424)…

…Commentary on the Anguttara Nikāya. -rama pleasing to the mind, lovely, delightful Snp.50, Snp.337, Snp.1013; Dhp.58;…

…Commentary on the Anguttara Nikāya. -rama pleasing to the mind, lovely, delightful Snp.50, Snp.337, Snp.1013; Dhp.58;…

death, as ending this (visible) existence, physical death, in a narrower meaning than kālakiriyā; dying, in compounds death
■ The customary stock definition of maraṇa runs; …

adjective versed in the 4 (or 5) Nikāyas Mil.22; cp. Cunningham, Stupa of Bharhut 142, 52.

fr. nikāya

…included in the Khuddaka Nikāya; editions in P.T.S. Quoted often in the Visuddhimagga, e.g. p. Vism.140, Vism.208 sq. etc.

Sk. nirdeśa, fr….

…spelt k than kk (cp. Trenckner, Preface to Majjhima Nikāya & see ni˚ A 1).

…Towards the close of the Nikāya period we find, for the first time, the use of the word in the pl., and the mention of 4 Oghas identical with…

…it is said that the Majjhima Nikāya consists of 80,523 padas and 740,053 akkharas

■ Neg. apada

1. without feet footless…

adjective learned, full of knowledge, clever, well-acquainted, familiar DN.iii.170; Vv.53#2 (= nipuṇa Vv-a.232); Ja.ii.243; Ja.iv.130; Ja.v.399; Vism.95 (Majjhimo me paguṇo: I am well versed in the …

…SN.ii.120; Snp-a.195 (nikāyaṃ). 2. (with inf.) to know (to do something), to be able to Vin.ii.109 (aor. ˚iṃsu), Vin.ii.121

pp…

adjective noun masculine

Cases:
■ gen. dat. pañcannaṃ,
■ instr. abl pañcahi,
■ loc. pañcasu;
■ often used in compositional form pañca˚ (cp. Ved. pañcāra with 5 spokes RV i.164¹³; G …

…kāyaṃ); AN.iii.249 (deva-nikāyaṃ p.); AN.iv.461 sq (id.); Vb.244 (ujuṃ kāyaṃ p.) = DN-a.i.210. Also lit (as prep with acc.) “in the…

greens, green leaves vegetable Vin.ii.267 (na harītaka ˚ṃ pakinitabbaṃ trsl. at Vin. Texts iii.343 by “carry on the business of florist and seedsman,” thus taken as paṇṇika, cp. also Vin. Texts ii …

…Suttanta of the Dīgha Nikāya (DN.ii.30 sq.; cp. Dial. ii.24 sq.), where 10 items form the constituents of the chain, and are given in…

…at Ja.i.118 Vism.96 (pañca-nikāya-maṇḍale tīṇi piṭakāni parivatteti), Vism.384 (tiṇṇaṃ Vedānaṃ uggahaṇaṃ, tiṇṇaṃ…

…pāṇā poṇika-nikāyo cikkhallika-nikāyo ti.“ Thus we may take poṇikanikāya as “the kingdom of those which go prone (i.e….

…i.27 sq. Franke, Dighanikāya p. 66 sq.; - pāṭimokkhaṃ uddisati to recite the P. Vin.i.102, Vin.i.112, Vin.i.175; Vin.ii.259;…

…(where Neumann, Majjhima Nikāya ii.318 trsl^s sa˚ “intelligible” and a˚ “incomprehensible,” referring to…

…mentioned in the Saṃyutta Nikāya is to be found in the Index to that Nikāya (vol. vi. p. 84, 85). On rukkha in similes see J.P.T.S. 1907, pp….

…body or group (= -nikāya q.v.); as a t.t. in P. psychology almost equal to individuality; identified with the five…

…meant. The compilers of the Nikāyas must therefore have considered the expression as pre-Buddhistic; but it has not yet been found in any…

…in the Khuddaka-Nikāya. Theratara very senior, opp^d to navatara, novice DN.ii.154

• -vāda the doctrine…

…fourth book of the Khuddaka-nikāya, named thus because every sutta begins with vuttaṃ h’ etaṃ Bhagavatā “thus has the Buddha said” (see…

…gata Tāvatiṃsadevanikāyaṃ uppanna Vv-a.164)

• -pura the city of the 30, i.e. Heaven Mil.291; *…

…(in expl^n. of uddhaṃgāmin, opp. ojavanikāya).

ud + javanaka, q.v.

…Of passages in the 4 older Nikāyas we have only AN.ii.33 (ye devā dīgh’ āyukā uccesu vimānesu cira-ṭṭhitikā). At SN.i.12 = SN.i.23…

…anuyogo, aññataraṃ deva-nikāyaṃ paṇidhāya brahmacariyaṃ; thus at DN.iii.238; MN.i.103; AN.iii.249; AN.iv.461, AN.iv.463 sq.; AN.v.17;…

…vitality. Found in the four Nikāyas only in one standard passage in the same connection, viz. sa-viññāṇaka kāya “the body with its…

…found in the language of the Nikāyas only, thus indicating part of the oldest & original dialect. E.g.: y. bhante jāneyyāsi Vin.i.237; yagghe…

…Saṃyutta & Anguttara-Nikāyas in Index vols to these texts. E.g. SN.iv.195 (vacanaṃ, epithet of nibbāna); SN.v.440 (abhisamaya); Snp.194,…

…does not occur in the four Nikāyas. In the older verses it is nearly synonymous with muni. The oldest ref. is Thag.947 (pubbake yogī “Saints…

…= Vin.ii.249, or of the Four Nikāyas, DN-a.i.1, DN-a.i.2 (dīgh˚). A def. at Vism.442 runs “antamaso opamma-vagga-mattassa pi…