Pāli Dictionary

amata1

aprefixmanroottasuffix

Part of speech

adjective

Antonyms

mata

general

  • Not sensed; not perceived; not known; unthought of.

amata2

aprefixmarroottasuffix

Part of speech

noun

Root

mar1die

Antonyms

mata

doctrine

  • Nibbāna; the deathless state; immortality; final liberation from rebirth and death.

cosmology

  • Ambrosia; the drink of immortality; divine nectar.

general

  • (as adjective) deathless; immortal; undying; alive; not dead.

  • AN 4.48

    n'ābhāsamānaṃ jānanti, missaṃ bālehi paṇḍitaṃ, bhāsamānañ'ca jānanti, desentaṃ amataṃ padaṃ.

  • MN 64

    so tehi dhammehi cittaṃ paṭivāpeti. so tehi dhammehi cittaṃ paṭivāpetvā amatāya dhātuyā cittaṃ upasaṃharati

  • Water (especially the water of the Ganges river).

amatā

approximate

aprefixmatāstem

Part of speech

noun · feminine

Root

mar1die

general

  • emblic myrobalan; Indian gooseberry; Phyllanthus emblica

  • medicinal creeper; heart-leaved moonseed; Tinospora cordifolia

āmata

approximate

āprefixmarroottasuffix

Part of speech

adjective

general

  • almost dead; near to death; in the throes of dying

  • DN 23

    yadā so āmato hoti, ty'āhaṃ evaṃ vadāmi, tena hi, bho, imaṃ purisaṃ uttānaṃ nipātetha, app'eva nāmassa jīvaṃ nikkhamantaṃ passeyyāmā'ti. te taṃ purisaṃ uttānaṃ nipātenti.

approximate

Compound structure

analyses: 3

amātā
  1. amā

    at home; in the house

  2. tā

    they; those; them (feminine plural of the pronoun ‘ta’)

namātā
  1. na

    not; no; neither; nor (negative particle; also as negative prefix in compounds)

  2. mātāmātar

    mother

amāetā
  1. amā

    at home; in the house

  2. etāeta

    this; that

Encyclopedia

Amata
Sutta

  • The Lake of Immortality, in search of which Bhaddasāla encountered the Buddha Nārada.

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