Pāli Dictionary

āsavati

approximate

āprefixsurootasuffix

Part of speech

verb

Root

su1流れ

general

  • 流れる；流れ入る；生じる

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

āsavant

approximate

āsāstemvantsuffix

via inflected form āsavati · locative singular

Part of speech

noun · masculine

Root

is1望む

cosmology

  • 天神の一集団の名称；字義は「欲求を持つ者」

  • 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（ろ）；流漏；煩悩（欲漏・有漏・見漏・無明漏）

  2. iti

    このように；かくのごとく；そのように

Encyclopedia

Asāvatī
Other

  • 忉利天（ターヴァティンサ）のチッタラターヴァナ（Cittalatāvana）園にあるつる草で、その果実は千年に一度しか熟さず、四か月間酔わせる神酒を生む。

  • 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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