Pāli Dictionary

asaññasatta

approximate

asaññastemsattastem

Part of speech

noun · masculine

cosmology

  • an unconscious/impercipient being; a class of fine-material devas reborn without perception

  • DN 15

    ayaṃ sattamī viññāṇaṭṭhiti. asaññasatt'āyatanaṃ n'evasaññān'āsaññ'āyatanam'eva dutiyaṃ.

approximate

Compound structure

analyses: 3

āsannasattā
  1. āsanna

    near; close by; proximate; in the neighbourhood (of)

  2. sattāsatta

    a being; a living being; a sentient creature

āsannoasattā
  1. āsannoāsanna

    near; close by; proximate; in the neighbourhood (of)

  2. asattāasatta

    unattached; free from clinging; not stuck (to)

āsaṃasattā
  1. āsaṃāsa

    throwing; shooting; hurling (compound-final, e.g. issāsa ‘archer’)

  2. asattāasatta

    unattached; free from clinging; not stuck (to)

Encyclopedia

Asaññasattā
Other

  • Unconscious beings reborn in a heavenly realm after cultivating the fourth jhāna and rejecting the value of perception, who remain form-only and without mind until an idea arises and they fall from that state.

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