Pāli Dictionary

anavakāsa

anprefixavaprefixkāsrootasuffix

Part of speech

noun · masculine

Root

kās1briller; être visible

Synonyms

aṭṭhāna

Antonyms

avakāsa

doctrine

  • impossibilité; ce qui est hors de question; inconcevabilité (souvent dans la formule aṭṭhānam etaṃ anavakāso)

  • impossibility; inconceivability; what is out of the question (frequently used in the stock phrase aṭṭhānam etaṃ anavakāso, ‘this is impossible, inconceivable’)

  • Ud 5.5

    aṭṭhānam'etaṃ, bhikkhave, anavakāso yaṃ tathāgato aparisuddhāya parisāya uposathaṃ kareyya, pātimokkhaṃ uddiseyya

  • MN 29

    so tena ñāṇadassanena na majjati nappamajjati na pamādaṃ āpajjati, appamatto samāno asamayavimokkhaṃ ārādheti. aṭṭhānam'etaṃ, bhikkhave, anavakāso yaṃ so bhikkhu tāya asamayavimuttiyā parihāyetha.

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