The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

!dayo) Vin iv.34 (as bh(ta -- g!ma). -- Meanings: 1. bh(t! & bh(t!ni (pl.) beings, living beings, animate
Nature Sn 35 (expld at Nd2 479 as 2 kinds, viz. tas! & th!var!, movable & immovable; S. ii.47 (K.S. ii.36)
mind and body as come -- to -- be; Dh 131 (bh(t!ni), 405; M i.2 sq. (pa&hav", !po etc., bh(t!, dev!, Paj!pat"
etc.), 4; MA i.32. The pl. nt. bh(t!ni is used as pl. to meaning 2; viz. inanimate Nature, elements, usually
enumd under term mah! -- bh(t!ni. -- 2. (nt.) nature, creation, world M i.2 (bh(te bh(tato sañj!n!ti
recognises the beings from nature, i. e. from the fact of being nature); DhsA 312 (˚pas!da -- lakkha*a, see
Expos. 409). See cpds. ˚g!ma, ˚pubba (?). -- 3. (nt. adj.) that which is, i. e. natural, genuine, true; nt. truth;
neg. abh(ta falsehood, lie Sn 397; PvA 34. See cpds. ˚bh!va, ˚vacana, ˚v!da. -- 4. a supernatural being,
ghost, demon, Yakkha; pl. bh(t! guardian genii (of a city) J iv.245. See cpds. ˚vijja, ˚vejja. -- 5. ( -- ˚) pp. in
predicative use (cp. on this meaning Bdhgh's meaning No. 5, above): (a) what has been or happened; viz.
m!tu -- bh(t! having been his mother PvA 78; abh(tapubba' bh(ta' what has never happened before
happened (now) DA i.43 (in expln of abbhuta); -- (b) having become such & such, being like, acting as,
being, quâsi (as it were), consisting of, e. g. andha˚ blind, as it were J vi.139; aru˚ consisting of wounds
DhA iii.109; udap!na˚ being a well, a well so to speak PvA 78; op!na˚ acting as a spring A iv.185; hetu˚ as
reason, being the reason PvA 58; cp. cakkhu˚ having become an eye of wisdom. Sometimes bh(ta in this
use hardly needs to be translated at all. -- k!ya body of truth DhA i.11. -- g!ma vegetation, as trees, plants,
grass, etc. Under bh(tag!ma Bdhgh understands the 5 b"ja -- j!t!ni (5 groups of plants springing from a
germinative power: see b"ja), viz. m(la -- b"ja', khandha˚, phala˚, agga˚, b"ja˚. Thus in C. on Vin iv.34 (the
so -- called bh(tag!ma -- sikkh!pada, quoted at DhA iii.302 & SnA 3); cp. M iii.34; J v.46; Miln 3, 244. --
g!ha possession by a demon Miln 168 (cp. Divy 235). -- &&h!na place of a ghost KhA 170. -- pati (a) lord of
beings J v.113 (of Inda); vi.362 (id.); Vv 641 (id.). (b) lord of ghosts, or Yakkhas J vi.269 (of Kuvera). --
pubba (a) as adj. ( -- ˚) having formerly been so & so, as m!t! bh(tapubbo satto, pit! etc., in untraced
quotation at Vism 305; also at SnA 359 (Bhagav! ku*!la -- r!j! bh(tapubbo). -- (b) as adv. (bh(tapubba')
meaning: before all happening, before creation, at a very remote stage of the world, in old times, formerly
Vin ii.201; D i.92; ii.167, 285, 337; M i.253; iii.176; S i.216, 222, 227; iv.201; v.447; A iv.136=Vism 237;
A iv.432; J i.394; DhA i.56. -- bhavya past and future D i.18. -- bh!va truthful
-- 508 --
character, neg. a˚ PvA 14. -- vacana statement of reality or of the truth SnA 336. -- v!din truthful, speaking
the truth M i.180; D iii.175; Pug 58; a˚ untruthful Dh 306; J ii.416. -- vik!ra a natural blemish, fault of
growth, deformity SnA 189 (opp. nibbik!ra). -- vijj! knowledge of demons, exorcism D i.9; Dh i.93, cp.
Dial. i.17). -- vejja a healer of harm caused by demons, an exorcist Vin iv.84; J ii.215; iii.511; Miln 23.
Bh(tatta
Bh(tatta (nt.) [abstr. fr. bh(ta] the fact of having grown, become or being created (i. e. being creatures or
part of creation) Vism 310 (in def. of bh(t!); MA i.32 (id.).
Bh(tanaka
Bh(tanaka [cp. *Sk. bh(t%na] a fragrant grass; Andropogon schoenanthus J vi.36 (=phanijjaka); Vism 543
(so v. l. for T. bh(tinaka).
Bh(tika
Bh(tika (adj.) ( -- ˚) in cpd. c!tummah!˚ belongs to the whole expression, viz. composed of the 4 great
elements M i.515.
Bh(naha
Bh(naha [difficult to expln; is it an old misspelling for bh(ta+gha? The latter of han?] a destroyer of beings
Sn 664 (voc. bh(nahu, expld by SnA 479 as "bh(ti -- hanaka vuddhi -- n!saka"; vv. ll. bh(naha&a,