kathaṃ
adverb dubit. interr. part.
- how; with ind. pres. Pv-a.6 (k. puriso paṭilabhati), or with fut. & cond. Ja.i.222; Ja.ii.159 (k. tattha gamissāmi); Ja.vi.500; Pv-a.54 (na dassāmi)
- why, for what reason? Ja.iii.81; Ja.v.506. Combined with -ca Vin.i.114; Vin.ii.83. -carahi DN.ii.192. -nu & -nu kho; Vin.ii.26, Ja.iii.99; Ja.iv.339; Cnd.189, see also evaṃ nu kho. -pana DN.ii.163. -su Cnd.189. -hi Ja.iv.339; Dhp-a.i.432. -hi nāma Vin.i.45; Vin.ii.105; Vin.iii.137; Vin.iv.300 all in the same meaning; -ci (kathañci) scarcely, with difficulty Thag.456.
- -kathā “saying how? how?” i.e. doubt, uncertainty unsettled mind (cp. kaṅkhā); expl. as vicikicchā dukkhe kankhā Cnd.190; DN.ii.282; Snp.500, Snp.866, Snp.1063 Snp.1088; Dhp-a.iv.194; as adj. and at end of cpd.
- --katha e.g. vigata˚ (in phrase tiṇṇa-vicikiccha… vesārajjappatta) DN.i.110 = Vin.i.12; tiṇṇa˚ (+ visalla) Snp.17 Snp.86, Snp.367. k-k-salla “the arrow of doubt” DN.ii.283 (vicikicchā +).
- -kathin having doubts, unsettled uncertain DN.ii.287; MN.i.8; Cnd.191; Dhs-a.352; a˚; free from doubt, epithet of Arahant (explained DN-a.i.211: “not saying how and how is this?”); MN.i.108; Iti.49; Snp.534 Snp.635, Snp.868, Snp.1064; in phrases tiṇṇa-vicikiccho viharati akathankathī kusalesu dhammesu DN.i.71 = Pp.59 jhāyī anejo a˚ Dhp.414 (: Dhp-a.iv.194) = Snp.638.
- -kara (adj.) how acting, what doing? k. ahaṃ no nirayam pateyyaṃ (“τί ποι ̈ων μακάριος ε ̓́σομαι”) Ja.iv.339; Snp.376; Ja.iv.75; Ja.v.148.
- -jīvin leading what kind of life? Snp.181.
- -dassin holding what views? Snp.848 (see ˚*sīla*).
- -pakāra of what kind Vin.i.358; Snp.241 (:kathappakāra).
- -paṭipanna going what way, i.e. how acting? DN.ii.277, DN.ii.279, DN.ii.281.
- -bhāvita how cultivated or practised? SN.v.119.
- -kathā “saying how? how?” i.e. doubt, uncertainty unsettled mind (cp. kaṅkhā); expl. as vicikicchā dukkhe kankhā Cnd.190; DN.ii.282; Snp.500, Snp.866, Snp.1063 Snp.1088; Dhp-a.iv.194; as adj. and at end of cpd.
- -rūpa of what kind MN.i.218; AN.i.249; AN.iii.35; Ja.iii.525.
- -vaṇṇa of what appearance, what like? DN.ii.244.
- -vidha what sort of Ja.v.95, Ja.v.146; Dhs-a.305.
- -sameta how constituted Snp.873.
- -sīla of what character or conduct? how in his morality? Snp.848 (kathaṃdassī kathaṃsīlo upasanto ti vuccati).
cp. Vedic kathaṃ & kathā