adverb for ever and ever DN.i.14; MN.i.8; SN.iii.143; also sassatī samā Ja.iii.255; Vv.63#14 (explained by sassatīhi samāna, like the eternal things-viz., earth, sun, moon, etc., Vv-a.265); Ja.iii.256; DN-a.i.105.

cp. Sk. śaśvatīḥ samāḥ