The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

(=ku&"). -- dhura ordinary duty (lit. burden) or responsibility of living, or the elementary stages of
saintliness SnA 194, 195 (contrasted to pariyatta -- dhura), 306 (: ganthadhura).
V!sa
V!sa3 [cp. Class. Sk. v!sa, e. g. M!lat"m. 148, 4; fr. v!: see v!ta] perfume J i.242; vi.42.
V!saka, v!sika
V!saka, v!sika (adj.) ( -- ˚) [fr. v!sa2] living, dwelling; v!saka: see sa'˚. v!sika: g!ma˚ villager Mhvs 28,
15; B!r!*asi˚ living in Benares J iii.49. See also ante˚.
V!sati
V!sati [v!$, see vassati2] to cry (of animals) J vi.497.
V!sana
V!sana1 (adj. -- nt.) [=vasana1] clothing, clothed in ( -- ˚) PvA 173.
V!sana
V!sana2 (adj. -- nt.) [=vasana2] dwelling Dpvs v.18.
V!san!
V!san! (f.) [fr. vasati2 = v!sa2, but by Rh. D., following the P. Com!. connected with v!seti & v!sa3] that
which remains in the mind, tendencies of the past, impression, usually as pubba˚ former impression (Sn
1009; Miln 10, 263). -- Cp. Nett 4, 21, 48, 128, 133 sq., 153, 158 sq., 189 sq. -- Cp. BSk. v!san!, e. g.
MVastu i.345.
V!sara
V!sara [cp. Vedic v!sara matutinal, vasa1 early] day (opp. night), a day D!vs i.55; v.66.
V!si
V!si (f.) [cp. Sk. v!$"] 1. a sharp knife, axe, hatchet, adze (often combd with pharasu) J i.32, 199; ii.274;
iii.281; iv.344; Miln 383; 413; DhA i.178 (tikhi*! v!siy! kha*.âkha*.ika' chinditv!: cutting him up
piecemeal with a sharp knife); KhA 49. -- ˚ja&a handle of a mason's adze Vin iv.168; S iii.154; A iv.127. --
2. a razor J i.65; ii.103; iii.186, 377.
V!sita
V!sita [fr. v!seti2] 1. scented J i.65; ii.235 (su˚); iii.299; v.89; Vism 345. -- 2. [preferably fr.
v!seti1=vasati2] established, made to be or live, preserved Mhvs 8, 2. So also in phrase v!sita -- v!sana
(adj.) or v!sana -- v!sita one who is impressed with (or has retained) a former impression Sn 1009 (pubba˚,
=v!san!ya v!sita -- citta SnA 583); Miln 263 (id.); Vism 185 (+bh!vita -- bh!vana). If taken as v!seti2,
then to be trsld as "scented, filled, permeated," but preferably as v!seti1. -- Cp. pari˚.
V!sitaka