adjective lovely, beautiful pleasant, usually of sound (sara) DN.ii.20 (˚ssara); SN.i.180 SN.i.190; Snp.350, Snp.668; Vv.5#3, Vv.36#1, Vv.36#4 (˚rūpa), Vv.50#18 (girā) Vv.63#6, Vv.64#10 (ghoso suvaggu), Vv.64#20, Vv.67#2, Vv.84#17; Pv.i.11#3 Pv.ii.12#1; Pv.iii.3#4; Ja.ii.439; Ja.iii.21; Ja.v.215; Sdhp.245. The foll. synonyms are frequently given in Vv-a & Pv-a as explains of vaggu: abhirūpa, cāru, madhura, rucira savanīya, siniddha, sundara, sobhaṇa.

• -vada of lovely speech or enunciation Snp.955 (= madhura-vada, pemaniya-vada, hadayangama˚, karavīkaruda-mañju-ssara Mnd.446). Vagguli & i

cp. Vedic valgu, fr. valg; freq. in combination with vadati “to speak lovely words”