Pāli Dictionary

sambhava

saṃprefixbhūroot

Part of speech

noun

Root

bhū1be; become

Synonyms

bhava, ja, pasava, jātika, pabhava

general

  • origin; arising; birth; production; genesis

  • Snp 3.12

    ye dukkhaṃ nappajānanti, atho dukkhassa sambhavaṃ, yattha ca sabbaso dukkhaṃ, asesaṃ uparujjhati, tañ'ca maggaṃ na jānanti, dukkh'ūpasamagāminaṃ.

  • SN 12.63

    cattāro'me, bhikkhave, āhārā bhūtānaṃ vā sattānaṃ ṭhitiyā sambhava-esīnaṃ vā anuggahāya. katame cattāro?

sambhavati

saṃprefixbhavastemtisuffix

via inflected form sambhava · 2nd person·imperative singular

Part of speech

verb

Synonyms

uppajjati, paññāyati, āgacchati, saṃvattati, vattati, pavattati, kamati, samudācarati,

general

  • comes to be; happens; occurs; takes place

  • MN 38

    taṇhāpaccayā upādānaṃ, upādānapaccayā bhavo, bhavapaccayā jāti, jātipaccayā jarāmaraṇaṃ soka-parideva-dukkha-domanass'upāyāsā sambhavanti

  • MN 60

    evam'ass'ime aneke pāpakā akusalā dhammā sambhavanti micchādiṭṭhipaccayā.

  • is; exists; is present or available

  • MN 106

    etth'ete pāpakā akusalā mānasā abhijjhā'pi byāpādā'pi sārambhā'pi saṃvattanti. t'eva ariyasāvakassa idha'm'anusikkhato antarāyāya sambhavanti.

approximate

Compound structure

analyses: 1

sambhaiva
  1. sambhasambhoti

    arises; is produced; comes into being; happens

  2. iva

    like; as; as if, as it were

Encyclopedia

5 entries

Sambhava
Person

  • One of the two chief disciples of the Buddha Sikhī.

Sambhava2
Person

  • The constant attendant of the Buddha Revata.

Sambhava3
Person

  • The constant attendant of the Buddha Tissa, though elsewhere called Samaṅga.

Sambhava4
Person

  • A Pacceka Buddha thirty-one world-cycles ago, over whom the thera Sappaka, then born as a nāga, once held a lotus in a previous life.

Sambhava5
Person

  • The Bodhisatta born as the son of Vidhura and brother of Sañjaya and Bhadrakāra; his story is told in its own dedicated Jātaka.

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