weariness, disgust with worldly life, tedium, aversion, indifference, disenchantment N. is of the preliminary & conditional states for the attainment of Nibbāna (see nibbāna II B 1) & occurs frequently together with; virāga, vimutti & nibbāna; in the formula: etaṃ ekanta-nibbidāya virāgāya nirodhāya… sambodhāya nibbānāya saṃvattati “this leads to being thoroughly tired (of the world), to dispassionateness to destruction (of egoism), to perfect wisdom, to Nibbāna,” e.g. at DN.i.189; SN.v.82, SN.v.179, SN.v.255 SN.v.361; AN.iii.83; AN.iv.143; AN.v.216
■ In other connections Vin.i.15 (nibbidāya cittaṃ saṇṭhāsi); DN.iii.130 sq. SN.ii.30; SN.iii.40; SN.iii.179, SN.iii.189; SN.iv.86, SN.iv.141 (read nibbidāya for nibbindāya?); AN.i.51, AN.i.64; AN.iii.19, AN.iii.200, AN.iii.325 sq.; AN.iv.99, AN.iv.336 AN.v.2 sq., AN.v.311 sq.; Ja.i.97; Ja.iv.471, Ja.iv.473; Snp.340; Pts.i.195 Pts.ii.43 sq.; Vb.330; Ne.27, Ne.29; Vism.650. Cp. abhi˚.

Sk. nirvid, f. (see [BSk. e.g. Lal.300](/define/BSk. e.g. Lal.300)) & nirveda; to nibbindati