to beget, produce, increase, cultivate, develop (by means of thought meditation), The Buddhist equivalent for mind-work as creative in idea, MN.i.293; cp. B.Psy p. 132
■ DN.ii.79; MN.ii.11 (cattāro sammappadhāne & iddhipāde); SN.i.188 (cittaṃ ekaggaṃ), Thag.83, Thag.166 (ppr. bhāvayanto); Snp.341 (cittaṃ ekaggaṃ), Snp.507 (ppr. bhāvayaṃ), Snp.558 (grd. bhāvetabba), Snp.1130 (ppr. bhāvento = āsevanto bahulī-karonto Cnd.476); Dhp.87, Dhp.350, Dhp.370; Ja.i.264 (mettaṃ), Ja.i.415, Ja.ii.22 Cnd. s.v. kāmaguṇā (p. 121) (where grd. in sequence “sevitabba, bhajitabba, bhāvetabba, bahulī-kātabba”) Pp.15, Dhp-a.iii.171; Sdhp.48, Sdhp.495
pass ppr. bhāviyamāna AN.ii.140; Kp-a.148
pp bhāvita.

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