joy, pleasure, bliss, delight DN.i.3; Snp.679, Snp.687; Ja.i.207 (˚maccha leviathan); Ja.vi.589 (˚bheri festive drum) DN-a.i.53 (= pītiyā etaṃ adhivacanaṃ).

Vedic ānanda, fr. ā + nand, cp. BSk. ā …

indeclinable exclamation of surprise or bewilderment: alas! woe etc., perhaps in cpd. ahevana a dense forest (lit. oh! this forest, alas! the forest (i.e. how big it is) Ja.v.63 (uttamāhevanandaho, …

Bhāṇaka¹

adjective noun speaking; (n.) a reciter, repeater, preacher (of sections of the Scriptures), like Aṅguttara˚; Vism.74 sq.; Dīgha˚; DN-a.i.15, DN-a.i.131; Ja.i.59 Vism.36, Vi …

…Snp.p.59; Dhp-a.iii.170; Ānanda˚ DN.ii.123, DN.ii.126; Udena˚ DN.ii.102, DN.ii.118; DN.iii.9; Dhp-a.iii.246; Gotama (ka) ibid.; Cāpāla˚…

…of the Dh., an epithet of Ānanda Thag.1048; Ja.i.382, Ja.i.501; Ja.ii.25; Dhp-a.iii.250; Pv-a.2

• -bhūta having become…

…in the Jātaka tales; viz. Ānanda (as the king of the fishes or a Leviathan) Ja.i.207; Ja.ii.352; Ja.v.462; *Timanda &…

husband’s sister Ja.v.269 (= sāmikassa bhaginī p. Ja.v.275).

Sk. nanāndṛ & nanāndā, to nanā “mother”

to be glad, to rejoice, find delight in, be proud of (c. instr.) SN.i.110; AN.iv.94 sq.; Snp.33; Dhp.18
caus nandeti to please, to do a favour Ja.iv.107 (nandaya = tosehi Com.); Pv-a.139 (= toset …

…Ānanda Vin.i.46 Vin.iii.10 (Ānanda); Vin.iv.78 (id.); Ud.90 (Nāgasamāla) Ja.iv.123; Mil.15 (Nāgasena); Pv-a.38, Pv-a.93 (Ānanda).

Vedic…

emotion of joy, delight, zest exuberance. On term see Dhs. trsl. 11 and Cpd. 243 Classed under sankhārakkhandha, not vedanā˚-DN.i.37, DN.i.75; DN.iii.241, DN.iii.265, DN.iii.288; MN.i.37; SN.ii.30; …

…= MN.i.481 (sāgataṃ bhante Bhagavato); DN.ii.173; MN.i.514 (˚aṃ bhoto Ānandassa) DN-a.i.287; Dhp-a.iii.293.

su + āgata, orij. nt….

…servant, “famulus” Ānanda was the last u. of Gotama Buddha (see DN.i.206 Thag.1041 f.; Thag-a in Brethren loc. cit.; Vin.i.179…

…SN.ii.215 sq (˚muni, of Ānanda; explained as “vedeha-muni = paṇḍitamuni,” cp. K.S. i.321; translation K.S. ii.145 “the learned…

…Dhp-a.i.289); Ja.v.464 (= Ānanda-maccha C.), Ja.v.507. -da “water-giver,” i.e. cloud Dāvs iii.40. -dhara…

to be pleased or delighted Ja.vi.589 (aor. ānandi in T. reading ānandi vittā, expl^d. by C. as nandittha was pleased; we should however read ānandi-cittā with gladdened heart). See also * …

adjective enjoyable, nt. joy, feast Ja.vi.589 (˚ṃ acarati to celebrate the feast = ānandachaṇa C.).

grd. of ānandati

joy, happiness in cpd. ānandi-citta Ja.vi.589 (so read probably for ānandi vitta see ānandati).

ā + nandī, cp. ānanda