The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

assurance). This list occurs only at D iii.281 as a list of abhiññ!s. It stands there in a sort of index of
principal subjects appended at the end of the D"gha, and belongs therefore to the very close of the Nik!ya
period. But it is based on older material. Descriptions of each of the six, not called abhiññ!'s, and
interspersed by expository sentences or paragraphs, are found at D i.89 sq. (trsl. Dial. i.89 sq.); M i.34 (see
Buddh. Suttas, 210 sq.); A i.255, 258 = iii.17, 280 = iv.421. At S i.191; Vin ii.16; Pug 14, we have the adj.
cha)abhiññ! ("endowed with the 6 Apperceptions"). At S ii.216 we have five, and at S v.282, 290 six
abhiññ!'s mentioned in glosses to the text. And at S ii.217, 222 a bhikkhu claims the 6 powers. See also M
ii.11; iii.96. It is from these passages that the list at D iii. has been made up, and called abhiññ!'s.
Afterwards the use of the word becomes stereotyped. In the Old Commentaries (in the Canon), in the later
ones (of the 5th cent. a.d.), and in medieval and modern P!li, abhiññ!, nine times out ten, means just the
powers given in this list. Here and there we find glimpses of the older, wider meaning of special,
supernormal power of apperception and knowledge to be acquired by long training in life aud thought. See
Nd1 108, 328 (expln. of ñ!*a); Nd2 s. v. and N0. 466; Ps i.35; ii.156, 189; Vbh 228, 334; Pug 14; Nett 19,
20; Miln 342; Vism 373; Mhvs xix.20; DA i.175; DhA ii.49; iv.30; Sdhp 228, 470, 482. See also the
discussion in the Cpd. 60 sp., 224 sq. For the phrase saya6 abhiññ! sacchikatv! and abhiññ! -- vosita see
abhij!n!ti. The late phrase yath! abhiñña6 means 2 as you please, according to liking, as you like 3, J v.365
(= yath!dhipp!ya6 yath!ruci6 C.). For abhiññ! in the use of an adj. (˚abhiñña) see abhiñña.
Abhiññ!
Abhiññ!2 ger. of abhij!n!ti.
Abhiññ!ta
Abhiññ!ta [pp. of abhij!n!ti] 1. known, recognised Sn 588 (abhiññeyya' ˚'). -- 2. (well) -- known,
distinguished D i.89 (˚kolañña = p!ka&a -- kulaja DA i.252), 235; Sn p. 115.
Abhiññeyya
Abhiññeyya grd. of abhij!n!ti.
Abhi&h!na
Abhi&h!na (nt.) [abhi + &h!na, cp. abhiti&&hati; lit. that which stands out above others] a great or deadly
crime. Only at Sn 231 = Kh vi.10 (quoted Kvu 109). Six are there mentioned, & are explained (KhA 189)
as "matricide, parricide, killing an Arahant, causing schisms, wounding a Buddha, following other
teachers". For other relations & suggestions see Dhs trsl. 267. -- See also !nantarika.
Abhi*ha'
Abhi*ha' (adv.) [contracted form of abhikkha*a'] repeat- edly, continuous, often M i.442 (˚!pattika a
habitual offender), 446 (˚k!ra*a continuous practice); Sn 335 (˚sa'v!sa continuous living together); J i.190;
Pug 32; DhA ii.239; VvA 116 (= abhikkha*a), 207, 332; PvA 107 (= abhikkha*a'). Cp. abhi*haso.
Abhi*haso
Abhi*haso (adv.) [adv. case fr. abhi*ha; cp. bahuso = Sk. bahu$a1] always, ever S i.194; Th 1, 25; Sn 559,
560, 998.
Abhitakketi
Abhitakketi [abhi + takketi] to search for D!vs v.4.