pīṭha

seat, chair, stool, bench.

4 kinds are given at Vin.iv.40 = Vin.iv.168, viz. masāraka bundikābaddha, kuḷirapādaka, āhaccapādaka (same categories as given under mañca)
■ Vin.i.47, Vin.i.180 Vin.ii.114, Vin.ii.149, Vin.ii.225; AN.iii.51 (mañca˚, dvandva); AN.iv.133 (ayo˚); Pts.i.176; Vv.1#1 (see discussed in detail at Vv-a.8); Vv-a.295 (mañca˚)
pāda˚; footstool Ja.iv.378; Vv-a.291; bhadda˚; state-chair, throne Ja.iii.410.

  • -sappin “one who crawls by means of a chair or bench,” i.e. one who walks on a sort of crutch or support, a cripple (pīṭha here in sense of “hatthena gahana-yogga” Vv-a.8; exlpd by Bdhgh as “chinn’ iriyāpatha” Vin. Texts i.225) Ja.i.76, Ja.i.418; Ja.v.426 (khujja + Ja.vi.4, Ja.vi.10; Mil.205, Mil.245, Mil.276; Vism.596 (& jaccandha, in simile); Dhp-a.i.194; Dhp-a.ii.69; Pp-a 227; Pv-a.282.

cp. Fpic Sk. pīṭha