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a Contemplative's Pali to English Dictionary
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(updated 11-01-05 with 24 Pali terms & 52 English terms defined)
Gacchati:
(gamu) goes.
Gahapati:
m. householder.
Gait: gati.
f.
Gáma:
m. village.
Gámato:
gone to the village.
Gamaka:
m. Goer.
Gamana:
n. Going.
Gámatá:
f. collection of villages.
Gaïgà:
f. river.
Ganges: Gaïgà.
f.
gantha: 'ties'. "There are 4 ties: the bodily tie (káyagantha) of covetousness (abhijjhá), of ill-will (vyápáda), of clinging to rule and ritual (sílabbata-parámása), of dogmatical fanaticism (idamsaccábhinivesa)" (D. 33). - "These things are ties, since they tie this mental and material body" (Vis.M. XXII, 54).
Gantukáma:
wishing to go.
Gárayha:
blamable.
Garden: áráma.
m.
Garland-maker: málákára. m.
Garment: ambara.
m. vattha. n.
garuka-kamma: weighty karma; s. karma.
gati (lit. 'going'): 'course of existence', destiny, destination,state. "There are 5 courses of existence: hell, animal kingdom, ghost realm, human world, heavenly world" (D. 33; A. XI, 68). Of these, the first 3 count as woeful courses (duggati, s. apáya), the latter 2 as happy courses (sugati).
gems, the 3: ti-ratana (q.v.).
generation, the 4 modes of: yoni (q.v.).
Germ: bíja.
n.
germinating once more: eka-bíjí, is the name of one of the 3 kinds of Sotápanna (q.v.).
Gets: labhati.
Gets (angry): kujjhati.
ghosts: cf. peta, yakkha; s. loka.
Gift: dána.
n.
gilána: infirmity, affliction, illness, sickness, Sick.
Girl: dáraká.
f.
Giver: dáyaka.
m.
Giver (of food): annada.
Gives: deti.
giving: dána (q.v.).
gladness: somanassa (q.v.). - Indulging in g., s. manopavicára.
gnosis: s. indriya (21).
Ghara:
n. home, house.
Ghaña:m.
pot, jar.
Ghosana:
noisy.
Gilána:
m. sick person.
Gíti:
f. song.
Glory: yasa.
n.
Go - m. bull.
Goal: attha.
m.
Goat: aja.
m.
Goat (she
): ajá. f.
God: deva.
m.
Goddess: deví. f.
Goes: gacchati.
Goes about: vicarati.
Goes away: apagacchati.
Goes forward: abhigacchati.
Going: gamana.
n.
Golden: sova.n.namaya.
Good: sundara.
adj.
Good doer: pu--akárí. m.
Good man: sujana.
m.
Goods: bha.na.
n.
gotrabhú: lit. 'who has entered the lineage (of the Noble Ones)', i.e. the Matured One, Sanctified one.