The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

Puthu
Puthu (adj.) [both Vedic p%thak & p%thu, lit. spread out, far & wide, flat, of Idg. *pl/t broad, Sk. prath to
expand, p%tha1 palm of hand Av. frapah breadth, cp. Gr. platu/s broad, pla/tanos plane tree, Lith. platùs
broad, Lat. planta sole of foot, Ohg. flado pancake, Ags. flet ground, E. flat] 1. (=p%thak) separated,
individual, adv. separated, individual, adv. separately, each (also given as puthag eva Kacc. 29) S i.75
(puthu att! individual self); Th 1, 86; J iv.346 (=visu' visu' C.); Miln 4. See further under cpds. -- 2.
(=p%thu). The forms (pl.) are both puthu & puth(, both as adj. & n.; puth( more freq. found in metre. --
numerous, various, several, more, many, most D i.185 (puthu saññagg!; opp. eka'); S i.181 (puth(), 207
(id.); Sn 769 (puth( k!me=bah( Nd1 11); 1043, 1044 (puth(= bahuk! Nd2 449b); Th 2, 344 (puthu=puthu
satt! ThA 241); J vi.205 (puth(). nt. adv. puthu & puthu' greatly, much, in many ways Sn 580 (=aneka --
ppak!ra' SnA 460); Vv 624 (=mahanta' VvA 258). -- gumba experienced in many crafts J vi.448 (=aneka
-- sippa -- ññu C.). -- jja (puthu 1, but see remarks on puthujjana) common, ordinary Sn 897, 911 (=
puthujjanehi janita Nd1 308). -- titthakara a common sectarian D i.116 (thus to puthu 1, but DA i.287=
bah( t.) -- ddis! (puthu 1) each separate quarter "all the diverse quarters" S i.234. -- pañña (adj.) of wide
wisdom (p. 2) A i.130; ii.67 (v. l. h!sa˚). -- paññat! wide wisdom A i.45. -- p!*iya ordinary (p. 1) mode of
shampooing with the hand Vin ii.106 (Bdhgh on p. 316 explns pudhu -- p!*ikan ti hattha parikamma'
vuccati "manual performance," thus not identical with p!*ik! on p. 151). -- bh(ta (p. 2) widely spread S
ii.107; but cp. BSk p%&hag bhavati to be peculiar to Divy 58, 100. -- mati wide understanding S i.236. --
loma "flat fin," N of a fish "the finny carp" (Mrs. Rh. D.) Vv 4411 (=dibba -- maccha VvA 191); Th 2, 508
(=so -- called fish ThA 292); J iv.466. -- vacana "speaking in many (bad) ways," or "people of various
speech" (so expld Nd1 397) Sn 932 (prob. better "speaking ordinary talk"=puthu 1). -- satt!
(pl.)=puthujjan!, common people, the masses S i.44; Pv iii.73.
Puthuka
Puthuka [fr. puthu, cp. (late) Vedic p%thuka "flat corn," also "young of an animal," with which cp. perhaps
Gr. parqe/nos: see Walde, Lat. Wtb. under virgo] rice in the ear DhA i.98 (˚agga as first gift of the field).
Puthujjana
Puthujjana [*prthag -- jana, thus puthu 1+jana, but from the point of Pali identical in form and meaning
with puthu 2, as shown by use of puthu in similar cpds. and by C. explns. One may even say that puthu
1=p%thak is not felt at all in the P. word. Trenckner (Notes 76) already hinted at this by saying "puthujjana,
partly confounded with puthu"; a connection which also underlies its expln as "one -- of -- the -- many --
folk" at Kvu trsln 807 & 2913. It is felt to belong to puthu 2 in the same sense as Ger. "die breite Masse," or
Gr. oi( polloi/. The expln at Nd1 308=328 is puthu -- n!n! -- jan!. A long and detailed etym. -- speculation
expln of the term is found at DA i.59, trsld at Dhs trsln 258. The BSk. form is p%thagjana Divy 133 etc.] an
ordinary, average person (4 classes of ordinary people are discussed at Cpd. 49, 50), a common worldling,
a man of the people, an ordinary man M i.1, 7, 135, 239, 323; iii.64, 227; S i.148; ii.94 sq. (assutBv!), 151
(id.); iii.46, 108, 162; iv.157, 196, 201 (assutav!), 206 sq.; v.362 (opp. to sot!panna); A i.27, 147 (mara*a -
- dhammin), 178, 267; ii.129, 163; iii.54; iv.68, 97, 157, 372; Sn 351, 455, 706, 816, 859; Dh 59, 272; Vv
826 (=anariya VvA 321,+anavabodha); Nd1 146, 248; Ps i.61 sq., 143, 156; ii.27; Dhs 1003 (cp. DhsA 248
sq.); Vism 311 (=anariya); VbhA 133 (avijj' âbhikh(ta, bhava -- ta*h' âbhibh(ta), 186 (ummat taka,
opposed to upabr(hita -- ñ!*a -- purisa, exemplifying up!d!na and kamma); DhA i.5 (opp. ariyas!vaka),
445; Sdhp 363. -- kaly!*aka (cp. BSk. p%thagjana -- kaly!*aka Divy 419, 429) an ordinary man striving
after his spiritual good Nd1 477; Ps i.176; ii.190, 193. -- bhikkhu a bh. of the common sort DA i.269;
VbhA 383. -- sukha ordinary happiness M i.454.
Puthujjanat!
Puthujjanat! (f.) [abstr. fr. puthujjana] common -- place character S i.187=Th 1, 1217.
Puthujjanika