seeing, sight (obj. & subj.), i.e.

1. sight, view, look SN.iv.128 = Snp.763; AN.iii.236 (āloke nikkhitta laid before one’s eye). anāloka without sight, blind Mil.296 (andha +).
2. light AN.i.164 (tamo vigato ā. uppanno) = Iti.100 (vihato); AN.ii.139 (four lights, i.e. canda˚, suriya˚, agg˚, paññ˚, of the moon, sun, fire & wisdom); Ja.ii.34; Dhs.617 (opp. andhakāra); Vv-a.51 (dīp˚).
3. (clear) sight, power of observation, intuition, in comb^n. with vijjā knowledge DN.ii.33 = SN.ii.7 = SN.ii.105, cp. Pts.ii.150 sq. (obhāsaṭṭhena, SN-a on SN.ii.7).
4. splendour Vv-a.53; Vv-a.71.

• -kara making light, bringing light, n. light-bringer Iti.108.
• -karaṇa making light, illumining Iti.108
• -da giving light or insight Thag.3
• -dassana seeing light, i.e. perceiving Thag.422
• -pharaṇa diffusing light or diffusion of light Vb.334 Netti.89
• -bahula good in sight figuratively full of foresight AN.iii.432
• -bhūta light Ja.vi.459
• -saññā consciousness or faculty of sight or perception DN.iii.223 AN.ii.45 AN.iii.93
• -saññin conscious of sight i.e. susceptible to sight or insight DN.iii.49 MN.iii.3 AN.ii.211 AN.iii.92 AN.iii.323 AN.iv.437 AN.v.207 Pp.69
• -sandhi “break for the light”, a slit to look through, an opening a crack or casement Vin.i.48 = Vin.ii.209 = Vin.ii.218; Vin.ii.172 Vin.iii.65; Vin.iv.47 Ja.iv.310 Pv-a.24

ā + lok, Sk. āloka