advice, instruction, admonition, exhortation Vin.i.50 = Vin.ii.228; Vin.ii.255 Vin.iv.52; DN.i.137 (˚paṭikara, function of a king); Ja.iii.256 (anovādakara one who cannot be helped by advice, cp ovadaka); Ne.91, Ne.92; Dhp-a.i.13, Dhp-a.i.398 (dasavidha o.) Vv-a.345
■ ovādaṃ deti to give advice Pv-a.11, Pv-a.12, Pv-a.15,

BSk. avavāda in same sense as P.