Pāli Dictionary

āsavati

āprefixsurootasuffix

Part of speech

verb

Root

su1流

general

  • 流動；流向；發生，產生

  • flows; flows toward; comes to, occurs, happens

āsavant

āsāstemvantsuffix

via inflected form āsavati · locative singular

Part of speech

noun · masculine

Root

is1欲求；希求

cosmology

  • 一類天神的名稱；字面意為「有欲」或「有希望」

  • name of a group of deities; literally ‘having desire’ or ‘having expectation’

  • DN 20

    khemiyā tusitā yāmā, kaṭṭhakā ca yasassino, lambītakā lāmaseṭṭhā, jotināmā ca āsavā, nimmānaratino āguṃ, ath'āguṃ paranimmitā.

approximate

Compound structure

analyses: 1

āsavāiti
  1. āsavāāsava

    漏；煩惱之流（欲漏、有漏、見漏、無明漏四漏）；漏盡即阿羅漢果

  2. iti

    如此；這樣；像這樣

Encyclopedia

Asāvatī
Otherapproximate

  • 忉利天 Cittalatāvana 園中的一種藤蔓，其果實千年一熟，內藏天酒，飲之可醉四月之久。

  • A creeper in Tāvatiṃsa’s Cittalatāvana grove whose fruit, ripening only once every thousand years, yields a divine drink that intoxicates for four months.

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