The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

(od!ta'), 50 (k!sika'), 386 (k!s!ya'); iv.60, 186, 210; v.61 sq. (ubhatobh!ga -- vima&&ha'=M ii.13, reading
vimaddha; with the expression cp. ubhato -- bh!ga -- vimutta); Sn 295, 304; KhA 237 (˚' pariyod!yati,
simile); PvA 43, 50, 70; Sdhp 217. -- alla˚ fresh, clean clothes DhA iv.220; ahata˚ new clothes J i.50; D!vs
ii.39; dibba˚ heavenly, i. e. exquisite dresses PvA 23, 46, 53. -- pl. vatth!ni garments, clothes Sn 64, 287,
924; Pug 57 (k!s!y!ni); DhA i.219 (their uses, from a new dress down to a bit of rag). -- 2. hangings,
tapestry J iv.304. -- On vattha in similes see J.P.T.S. 1907, 132. -- guyha "that which is concealed by a
cloth," i. e. the pudendum D i.106; Sn 1022; DA i.275 (=angaj!ta'; Bhagavato ti v!ra*ass' eva kosohita'
vatthaguyha' suva**ava**a' paduma -- gabbha -- sam!na'). -- yuga a pair of garments J iv.172; D!vs i.34.
-- lakkha*a fortune telling from clothes SnA 362. -- sannidhi storing up of clothes D i.6; Nd1 372; DA i.82.
-- sutta the Suttanta on clothes (i. e. with the parable of the clothes: vatth' upama -- sutta) M i.36 sq., quoted
at Vism 377 and SnA 119.
Vattha
Vattha2 as pp. of vasati1 occurs only in cpd. nivattha. The two passages in PvA where vattha is printed as
pp. (vatth!ni vattha) are to be read as vattha -- nivattha (PvA 46, 62).
Vatthabba
Vatthabba at Vin ii.8 is to be spelt vattabba (see vattati).
Vatthi
Vatthi (m. & f.) [Vedic vasti in meaning 1; the other meanings later] 1. the bladder Vin iii.117; J i.146; Sn
195; Vism 144=DhsA 117; Vism 264, 345 (mutta˚), 362; DA i.161; VbhA 248. -- 2. the pudendum: see
˚kosa. -- 3. a clyster ( -- bag): see ˚kamma. -- kamma(' karoti) to use a clyster Vin i.216. -- kosa a
membranous sheath enveloping the sexual organ of a male DA i.275 (˚kosena pa&icchanna vatthaguyha: so
read for ˚kesena); VvA 252 (˚mukha orifice of the pudendum of an elephant).
Vatthu
Vatthu1 (nt.) [Class. Sk. vastu, fr. vas1] lit. "ground," hence 1. (lit.) object, real thing, property, thing,
substance (cp. vatthu2!) A ii.209 (khetta˚, where khetta in lit. sense, cp. No. 2). Here belongs the defn of
k!ma as twofold: vatthu -- k!ma and kilesa -- k!ma, or desire for realities, objective k!ma, and desire as
property of stained character, i. e. subjective k!ma, e. g. Nd1 1; SnA 99, 112; DhsA 62. -- On vatthD as
general philos. term cp. Dhs. trsln 2§§ 455, 679, 1229, also introd. p. 86; Cpd. 15, 31, 1741. -- 2. (appld
meaning) object, item Vin i.121 (antima -- vatthu' ajjh!pannaka guilty of an extreme offence?); v.138 (the
10 !gh!ta -- vatth(ni, as at Vbh 86); D iii.252 (seven niddesa˚), 255 (eight kus"ta˚), 258 (eight d!na˚); S
ii.41, 56 sq.; Vbh 71 (cakkhu˚ etc.), 306 sq., 353; Nett 114 (ten); SnA 172; DhA iv.2 (akkosa˚); PvA 8, 20
(d!na˚), 26 (left out in id. p. KhA 209), 29, 65 (alabbhaneyya˚), 96 (id.), 119, 121 (i&&ha˚), 177,
-- 599 --
220. Cp. ˚bh(ta. -- 3. occasion for, reason, ground A ii.158 (+khetta [in fig. sense!], !yatana & adhikara*a);
iv.334; D i.13 sq. (a&&h!dasahi vatth(hi etc.); J ii.5 (avatthumhi chanda' mâkari do not set your heart on
what is unreasonable); vatthun! (instr.) because PvA 118; vatthuto (abl.) on account of PvA 241. 4.
basis, foundation, seat, (objective) substratum, substance, element J i.146 (k!yo paridev!na' v.); VbhA 404
(+!ramma*a). See most of the cpds. -- 5. subjectmatter, subject, story, account SnA 4; DhA ii.66; PvA 77,
92, 263, 269. Cp. ˚g!th! & titles like Petavatthu, Vim!navatthu. -- kata made a foundation or basis of,
practised thoroughly J ii.61; v.14 and passim (+bh!vita etc.). In phrase t!lâvatthukata (=t!la avatthu kata)
vatthu means foundation, basis, ground to feed and live on, thus "a palm deprived of its foundation": see
refs. under t!la. -- g!th! the stanzas of the story, the introductory (explanatory, essential to its
understanding) stanzas, something like "prologue" SnA 483, 575 (preceding Sn 699 & 976). -- dasaka