1. impulse, excitement; intention, resolution, will desire for, wish for, delight in (c. loc.). Explained at Vism.466 as “kattu-kāmatāy” adhivacanaṃ; by Dhtp.587 & Dhtm.821 as; chand = icchāyaṃ

   1. As virtue: dhammapadesu ch. striving after righteousness SN.i.202 tibba˚ ardent desire, zeal AN.i.229; AN.iv.15; kusaladhamma˚ AN.iii.441. Often combined with other good qualities, e.g. ch. vāyāma ussāha ussoḷhi AN.iv.320 ch. viriya citta vīmaṃsā in set of samādhis (cp. iddhipāda) DN.iii.77 (see below), & in cpd. ˚âdhipateyya-kusalānaṃ dhammānaṃ uppādāya chandaṃ janeti vāyamati viriyaṃ ārabhati, etc., see citta v. 1 dβ.
      ■ MN.ii.174; AN.i.174 (ch. vā vāyāmo vā); AN.iii.50 (chandasā instr.); Snp.1026 (+ viriya); Vv.24#12 (= kusala˚ Vv-a.116); Ja.vi.72; Dhp-a.i.14
   2. As vice:
   3. kinds character of ch
      ■ With similar expressions: (kāya-ch. sneha anvayatā MN.i.500
      ■ ch. dosa moha bhaya DN.iii.182; Cnd.337#2 (See also below chandâgati). Its nearest analogue in this sense is rāga (lust), e.g. ch rāga dosa paṭigha DN.i.25 (cp. DN-a.i.116); rūpesu uppajjati ch. vā rāgo SN.iv.195. See below ˚rāga. In this bad sense it is nearly the same as kāma (see kāma kāmachanda: sensual desire, cp. Dhs-a.370, Vism.466 & Mrs. Rh. D. in; Dhs trsl. 292) & the combⁿ kāmachanda is only an enlarged term of kāma. Kāye chanda “delight in the body” MN.i.500; Snp.203. bhave ch. (pleasure in existence) Thig.14 (cp. bhavachanda) lokasmiṃ ch. (hankering after the world) Snp.866; methunasmiṃ (sexual desire) Snp.835 (expl. by ch. vā rāgo vā peman Mnd.181)
      ■ Ch. in this quality is one of the roots of misery: cittass’ upakkileso SN.iii.232 sq. SN.v.92; mūlaṃ dukkhassa Ja.iv.328 sq
      ■ Other passages illustrating ch. are e.g. vyāpāda˚ & vihiṃsā˚ SN.ii.151 rūpa-dhātuyā˚ SN.iii.10; SN.iv.72; yaṃ aniccaṃ, etc.… tattha˚ SN.iii.122, SN.iii.177; SN.iv.145 sq.; asmī ti ch. SN.iii.130 atilīno ch. SN.v.277 sq., cp. also DN.ii.277
   4. the emancipation from ch. as necessary for the attainment of Arahantship
      ■ vigata˚ (free from excitement) and a˚ SN.i.111; SN.iii.7, SN.iii.107, SN.iii.190; SN.iv.387; AN.ii.173 sq.; DN.iii.238; ettha chandaṃ virājetvā Snp.171 = SN.i.16. Kāye chandaṃ virājaye Snp.203.
   5. vīta˚ AN.iv.461 sq. ˚ṃ vineti SN.i.22, SN.i.197; ˚ṃ vinodeti SN.i.186; ch. suppaṭivinīta SN.ii.283. na tamhi ˚ṃ kayirātha Dhp.117.

2. (in the monastic law) consent, declaration of consent (to an official act: kamma) by an absentee Vin.i.121 Vin.i.122. dhammikānaṃ kammānaṃ chandaṃ datvā having given (his) consent to valid proceedings Vin.iv.151, Vin.iv.152 cp. ˚dāyaka Vin.ii.94
   ■ Note. The commentaries follow the canonical usage of the word without adding any precision to its connotation. See Cnd. s.v.; Dhs-a.370; Dhp-a.i.14, Ja.vi.72, Vv-a.77.

• -āgati in ˚gamana the wrong way (of behaviour, consisting) in excitement, one of the four agatigamanāni viz. ch˚, dosa˚, moha˚, bhaya˚ DN.iii.133 DN.iii.228 Vb.376 ‣See above
• -ādhipateyya adjective standing under the dominant influence of impulse Dhs.269 Dhs.359, Dhs.529 Vb.288 (+ viriya˚, citta˚, vīmaṁsā˚)
• -ānunīta led according to one’s own desire SN.iv.71 Snp.781
• -āraha (adj.) fit to give one’s consent Vin.ii.93 Vin.v.221
• -ja sprung from desire (dukkha) SN.i.22
• -nānatta the diversity or various ways of impulse or desire SN.ii.143f. DN.iii.289 Vb.425
• -pahāna the giving up of wrong desire SN.v.273
• -mūlaka (adj.) having its root in excitement AN.iv.339 AN.v.107
• -rāga exciting desire (cp kāmachanda) DN.ii.58 DN.ii.60 DN.iii.289 SN.i.198 SN.ii.283 SN.iii.232 sq. (cakkhusmiṁ, etc.); SN.iv.7 sq. SN.iv.164 (Bhagavato ch-r. n’ atthi), SN.iv.233 AN.i.264 (atīte ch-r-ṭṭhānīyā dhammā); AN.ii.71; AN.iii.73 Cnd.413 Dhp-a.i.334
• -samādhi the (right) concentration of good effort, classed under the 4 iddhipādā with viriya˚; citta˚ vīmaṁsā˚ DN.iii.77 SN.v.268 AN.i.39 Vb.216f.; Netti.15
• -sampadā the blessing of zeal SN.v.30

cp. Vedic and Sk. chanda, and skandh to jump