bahi
adverb outside
- (adv.) Ja.i.361 (˚dvāre-gāma a village outside the city gates); Pv.i.10#2; Dhp-a.iii.118; Pv-a.24, Pv-a.61.
- (prep.) with acc. (direction to) Ja.i.298 (˚gāmaṃ) with loc. (place where) -dvāra-koṭṭhake outside the gate MN.ii.92; AN.iii.31; -nagare outside the city Ja.ii.2; Pv-a.39. Pv-a.47; -vihāre outside the monastery Dhp-a.i.315.
- -gata gone outside (i.e. into worldly affairs, or according to Vv-a.213 engaged with the bahiddh’ ārammaṇāni) Vv.50#15 (abahiggata-mānasa with his mind not gone outside himself).
- -nikkhamana going outside of (abl.), leaving Vism.500 (mātukucchito bahinikkhamanaṃ mūlakaṃ dukkhaṃ).
cp. Vedic bahis & bahir; the s(ḥ) is restored in doubling of cons. in compound like bahig-gata Vv.50#15, in bahiddhā and in lengthening of i as bahī Ja.v.65