1. poetry, the making of poems, poetry as business. one of the forbidden occupations DN.i.11 (= DN-a.i.95 kabba-karaṇa)
2. poetry, song, poem (of suttanta) AN.i.72 = AN.iii.107.

• -matta intoxicated with poetry, musing, dreaming SN.i.110, SN.i.196.

grd. fr. kāvyate fr. kavi poet cp. Sk. kāvya