Pāli Dictionary

āsavati

approximate

āprefixsurootasuffix

Part of speech

verb

Root

su1流

general

  • 流动；流向；发生，产生

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

āsavant

approximate

āsāstemvantsuffix

via inflected form āsavati · locative singular

Part of speech

noun · masculine

Root

is1欲求；希求

cosmology

  • 一类天神的名称；字面意为“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；烦恼之流（欲漏、有漏、见漏、无明漏四漏）；漏尽即阿罗汉果

  2. iti

    如此；这样；像这样

Encyclopedia

Asāvatī
Other

  • 忉利天 Cittalatāvana 园中的一种藤蔓，其果实千年一熟，内藏天酒，饮之可醉四月之久。

  • 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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