Pāli Dictionary

āsavati

approximate

āprefixsurootasuffix

Part of speech

verb

Root

su1flow

general

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

āsavant

approximate

āsāstemvantsuffix

via inflected form āsavati · locative singular

Part of speech

noun · masculine

Root

is1wish for

cosmology

  • 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

    taint; canker; mental effluent — the defilements that sustain the flow of rebirth (sense desire, existence, views, ignorance); their destruction is arahantship

  2. iti

    thus; in this way; so; like this

Encyclopedia

Asāvatī
Other

  • 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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