Nyanatiloka Buddhist Dictionary

167/169).patisankhána-bala and bhávaná-bala: 'power of reflection', and 'power of mentaldevelopment'. About these 2 powers it is said in A. II, 10:"What, o monks, is the power of reflection? If, o monks, someone thinks thus: 'Bad conductin deeds, words and thoughts verily bears bad fruits both in this life, as well as in the nextlife', and in consequence of this consideration, he abandons bad conduct in deeds, words andthoughts, follows good conduct, and keeps his heart pure, this, o monks, is the power ofreflection."What, o monks, is the power of mental development? If, o monks, a monk develops thefactors of enlightenment (bojjhanga, q.v.), bent on solitude, on detachment, on extinction,and ending in deliverance, namely: mindfulness, investigating of the law, energy, rapture,tranquillity, concentration, and equanimity, this, o monks, is the power of mentaldevelopment."patisankhánupassaná-ñána: 'knowledge consisting in reflective contemplation"; is one of the9 knowledges constituting the 'purification by knowledge and vision of the path-progress'(patipadá-ñánadassanavisuddhi; s. visuddhi VI), and one of the 18 chief kinds of insight(mahávipassaná; s. vipassaná).pativedha: 'penetration', signifies the realization of the truth of the Dhamma, asdistinguished from the mere acquisition of its wording (pariyatti), or the practice (patipatti)of it, in other words, realization as distinguished from theory and practice. Cf. pariyatti.patta-pindik'anga: the 'exercise of the bowl-eater', is one of the 13 asceticpurification-exercises (dhutanga, q.v.), consisting in the vow of using only the alms-bowl foreating, and the rejection of any other vessel.patti-dána: lit. 'giving of the acquired', i.e. 'transference of merit.' Though in the oldertexts very seldom mentioned (e.g. A VII, 50), it is, however, a widespread custom in allBuddhist countries. It is presumed that moral merit, especially that acquired through givingalms, can be transferred to others, apparently for the reason that one's own good deeds maybecome to others, especially to departed relatives and friends reborn in the ghost realm, aninducement to a happy and morally wholesome state of mind. Transference of merit isadvocated (though without mentioning the term patti-dána) in the Tirokudda Sutta (Khp. andPetavatthu) and its Com. (Khp. Tr.). It is one of the ten 'bases of meritorious action'(puññakiriyavatthu, q.v.), called there pattánuppadána. (App.).See 'The Doctrine of Reversible Merit by F. L. Woodward. Buddhist Review(London), Vol. I (1914), p. 38.penetration s. pativedha, pariyatti. - For the power of penetrating (vipphára) knowledge andconcentration, s. iddhi. - For morality combined with penetration (nibbedha), s.hána-bhágiya-síla, etc. - For penetration (pariya) of the mind of others, s. abhiññá.perfections, the 10: páramí (q.v.).