Pīta¹

1. having drunk or (pred.) being drunk (as liquid) SN.i.212 (madhu˚); Ja.i.198; Pv-a.25 (with asita, khāyita & sāyita as fourfold food).
2. soaked or saturated with (-˚), in kasāyarasa˚; Ja.ii.98 (or = pīta²?) and visapīta (of an arrow) Ja.v.36; Vism.303, Vism.381; which may however be read (on acct. of variant reading visappīta) as visappita “poison-applied” (see appita) Does MN.i.281 pīta-nisita belong here (= visapīta)?
3. (nt.) drink MN.i.220 sq. = AN.v.347 sq.; AN.v.359; Thag.503; Pv.ii.7#10; Ne.29, Ne.80.

pp. of pivati

Pīta²

adjective yellow, goldencoloured Vin.i.217 (virecana); DN.i.76 (nīla p. lohita odāta); DN.iii.268 (˚kasiṇa); MN.i.281 (pīta-nisita, belonging here or under pīta¹?), cp. MN.i.385 (below); AN.iii.239 AN.iv.263, AN.iv.305, AN.iv.349; AN.v.61; Ja.vi.185 (nīla p. lohita odāta mañjeṭṭhaka), Ja.vi.449 (˚alankāra, ˚vasana ˚uttara, cp. Ja.vi.503); Dhs.203 (˚kasiṇa), Dhs.246, Dhs.247 (nīla p. lohitaka odāta); Vism.173 (˚kasiṇa)
■ pīta is prominent (in the sense of golden) in the description of Vimānas or other heavenly abodes. A typical example is Vv.47 (Pītavimāna v.1 & 2), where everything is characterised as pīta, viz. vattha, dhaja, alankāra, candana, uppala pāsāda, āsana, bhojana, chatta, ratha, assa, bījanī the C. explⁿ of pīta at this passage is “suvaṇṇa”; cp Vv.36#1 (= parisuddha, hemamaya Vv-a.166); Vv.78#4 (= suvaṇṇamaya C. 304).

• -antara a yellow dress or mantle Vv.36 (= pītavaṇṇā uttarīyā C. 166).
• -aruṇa yellowish red Thig.479
• -āvalepana “golden-daubed” MN.i.385.

Epic Sk. pīta, etym. unclear