Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Dhammapada 92 [Khuddaka Nikaya]


7 - Arahantavagga, The Arahat
3 - Belatthasisatthera Vatthu

Yesam sannicayo natthi, ye parinnatabhojana;
sunnato animitto ca, vimokkho yesam gocaro;
akaseva sakuntnam, gati tesam durannaya.
92: Arahats do not hoard (anything); when taking food they reflect well over it (i.e., in accordance with the three parinnas). They have as their object liberation from existence, that is, Nibbana which is Void and Signless. Their destination, like the course of birds in the air, cannot be traced.
 

Reference: Mya Tin, Daw, tr. The Dhammapada: Verses and Stories. Rangoon: Burma Tipitaka Association, 1986.

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Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Dhamma Terms (64)


နကမၸတိ /na. kan pati./ v remain unmoved; be cool, calm and collected. [Pali န+ကမၸတိ]
နဂါး /naga/ n mythical serpent or dragon. [Pali နာဂ]
နဂိုရ္ /nagou/ n [arch] city. [Pali နဂရ]
နဒီ /nadi/ n [poetic] river. [Pali နဒီ]
နပုန္းပ႑ဳက္ /napoun: pan: dou'/ n person of uncertain gender. [Pali နပံုသက+ပ႑က]
နပုလႅိင္ /napoun: lein/ n [gram] neuter gender. [Pali နပံုသက+လိဂၤ]
နဖူးသင္းက်စ္ /naphu: thin: gji'/

n 1 sacred whorl appearing on the forehead of the Buddha. 2 be-jewelled frontlet which forms part of the royal regalia.
နယူပေဒသ /naju badei dha./ nmethod; procedure. [Pali နယ+ဥပေဒသ]
နယုန္ /najoun/

n Nayon: third month of the year, containing 29 days except inဝါၾကီးထပ္ year when an extra day is intercalated.
နရက္ /nare'/ n netherworld where sinners are punished; purgatory; hell. Same as ငရဲ n. [Pali နရက]
နဝကမၼ /nawa. kan ma./ n sundry needs of a monk. [Pali နဝကမၼ]
နဝမ /nawama./ adj ninth. [Pali နဝမ]
နဝံပီယံ /nawun pi jan/ n passion for novelty. [Pali နဝံပိယံ]
နာ /na/

v 1 suffer pain; be hurt (as in ထိခိုက္၍ ေျခ ~ --). 2 be ill. 3 suffer a loss. 4 Same as နာၾကည္း v. 5 be thorough (as in သီခ်င္းတိုက္ ~ --).
နာ /na/
v 1 (a) listen (as in နားႏွင့္ မ ~ ဖဝါးႏွင့္ ~ ပါ။); (b) obey an order; listen to advice. 2 listen to a sermon. 3 investigate (as in စနည္း ~ --).
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