The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

Vinaya [fr. vi+n", cp. vineti] 1. driving out, abolishing destruction, removal Vin i.3 (asmi -- m!nassa), 235=
iii.3 (akusal!na' dhamm!na' vinay!ya dhamma' desemi); S i.40; Sn 921; A i.91 (kodha˚, upan!ha˚); ii.34
(pip!sa˚); iv.15 (icch!˚); v.165 (id.); SnA 12; PvA 114 (atthassa m(la' nikati˚). Often in phrase r!ga˚,
dosa˚, moha˚, e. g. S iv.7 sq.; v.137 sq., 241; A iv.175; Nett 22. -- 2. rule (in logic), way of saying or
judging, sense, terminology (cp. imin! nayena) S iv.95 (ariyassa vinaye vuccati loko); A i.163 (ariyassa
vinaye tevijjo one called a threefold wise in the nomenclature of the Buddhist); ii.166 (ariyassa v.); SnA
403. -- 3. norm of conduct, ethics, morality, good behaviour Sn 916, 974; J iv.241 (=!c!ra -- vinaya C.); A
ii.112; iii.353 sq. (ariya -- vinaye saddh! yassa pati&&hit! etc. faith established in Buddhist ethics). -- 4. code
of ethics, monastic discipline, rule, rules of morality or of canon law. In this sense applied to the large
collection of rules which grew up in the monastic life and habits of the bhikkhus and which form the
ecclesiastical introduction to the "Dhamma," the "doctrine," or theoretical, philosophical part of the
Buddhist Canon. The history & importance of the Vinaya Pi&aka will be dealt with under the title "Vinaya"
in the Dictionary of Names. Only a few refs. must suffice here to give a general idea. See also under
Dhamma C., and in detail Geiger, Dhamma pp. 55 -- 58. -- Often combd with dhamma: dhammato vinayato
ca on the ground of Dh. and V. Vin i.337; cp. ii.247. -- dhammo ca vinayo ca Vin i.356; ii.285, 302; or (as
(Dvandva) dhammavinaya (i. e. the teaching of the Buddha in its completeness) D i.229; Vin ii.237 sq.; M
i.284; ii.181 sq.; A i.283; iii.297, 327; S i.9; iii.65; Ud 53; VvA 3. Often approaches the meaning of
"Buddhist order," e. g. Vin i.69; D i.176; M i.68, 459, 480; iii.127; S ii.120; A i.185; ii.123; v.122. -- See
further Vin ii.96 (vinaye cheko hoti); A ii.168 (aya' dhammo, aya' v., ida' Satthu -- s!sana'); Vism 522;
VbhA 273; KhA 106, 151; SnA 4, 195, 310. -- a -- vinaya one who sins against the V. (like a -- dhamma
one who neglects the Dh.) Vin ii.295 sq.; iii.174; A i.18; v.73 sq. -- The division of the books of the Vinaya
is given at DhsA 18. Its character (as shown by its name) is given in the foll. verse at DhsA 19: "(vividha --
visesa -- ) nayatt! vinayanato c' eva k!ya -- v!c!na' vinayy' attha -- vid(hi aya' vinayo Vinayo ti akkh!to,"
i. e. "Because it shows precepts & principles, and governs both deed and word, therefore men call this
scripture V., for so is V. interpreted" (Expos. i. 23). -- a&&hakath! the (old) commentary on the Vinaya Vism
72, 272; VbhA 334; KhA 97. -- ânuggaha taking up (i. e. following the rules) of the Vinaya Vin iii.21; A
i.98, 100; v.70. -- kath! exposition of the Vinaya Vin iv.142. -- dhara one who knows or masters the V. by
heart, an expert in the V. Vin i.169; ii.299 (with dhamma -- dhara & m!tik! -- dhara); A i.25; ii.147; iii.78
sq., 179, 361; iv.140 sq.; v.10 sq.; J iii.486; iv.219; Vism 41, 72; KhA 151; DhA ii.30 (with dhamma --
kathika & dhuta -- v!da) [cp. BSk. vinayadhara Divy 21]. -- pi&aka the V. Pi&aka KhA1 2, 97; VbhA 431. --
vatthu chapter of the V. Vin ii.307. -- v!din one who professes the V. (or "speaking in accordance with the
rules of conduct"), a V. -- follower D i.4 (here expld by Bdhgh as "sa'vara -- vinaya -- pah!na -- vinaya
sannissita' katv! vadat" ti" v. DA i.76, thus taking it as vinaya 3) =M iii.49=Pug 58 (trsln here: "speaking
according to self -- control"); D iii.135, 175.
Vinayati
Vinayati see vineti.
Vinayana
Vinayana (nt.) [fr. vi+n"] 1. removing, removal Miln 318 (pip!s!˚); PvA 39 (soka˚). -- 2. instruction,
discipline, setting an example J v.457 (conversion); Miln 220.
Vina)"kata
Vina)"kata (adj.) [vi+na)a+kata, with na)" for na)a in combn with k%] lit. "having the reed or stem removed,"
rendered useless, destroyed M i.227; A ii.39; Sn 542 (=ucchinna SnA 435); Th 1, 216; J vi.60 (viddhasta+,
as at Sn 542).
Vinassati
Vinassati [vi+nassati] to be lost; to perish, to be destroyed S iv.309; M ii.108 (imper. vinassa "away with
you"); J iii.351; v.468; Pv iii.45; Vism 427. -- pp. vina&&ha. Caus. vin!seti.