The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

company or around him). Freq. in combn. with mitta as mitt! âmacc!, friends & colleagues D iii.189 -- 90;
S 190 = A ii.67; PvA 29; or with ñ!t" (ñ!ti -- s!lohit! intimate friends & near -- relations), mittâmacc!
ñ!tis!lohit! Vin ii.126; Sn p. 104 (= mitt! ca kammakar! ca SnA 447); mitt! v! amacc! v! ñ!t" v! s!lohit!
v! A i.222; PvA 28; amacc! ñ!ti -- sangh! ca A i.152. 2. Especially a king's intimate friend, king's
favourite, confidant J i.262; PvA 73 (˚kula), 74 (amacc! ca purohito ca), 81 (sabba -- kammika amacca),
93; and his special adviser or privy councillor, as such distinguished from the official ministers (purohita,
mah!matta, p!risajja); usually combd. with p!risajj! (pl.) viz. D i.136 (= piya -- sah!yaka DA i.297, but cp.
the foll. expln. of p!risajj! as "ses! !*atti -- kar!"); Vin i.348; D iii.64 (amacc! p!risajj!
ga*akamah!matt!); A i.142 (catunna' mah!r!j!na' a. p!risajj!). See on the question of ministers in general
Fick, Sociale Gliederung p. 93, 164 & Banerjea, Public Administration in Ancient India pp. 106 -- 120.
Amajja
Amajja [etym.?] a bud J v.416 (= makula C.).
Amajjap!yaka
Amajjap!yaka [a + majja + p!yaka, cp. Sk. amadyapa] one who abstains from intoxicants, a teetotaler J
ii.192.
Amata
Amata1 (nt.) [a + mata = m%ta pp. of m%, Vedic am%ta = Gr. a) -- m(b)rot -- o & a)mbrosi/a = Lat. im --
mort -- a(lis] 1. The drink of the gods, ambrosia, water of immortality, (cp. BSk. am%ta -- var+a "rain of
Ambrosia" Jtm 221). -- 2. A general conception of a state of durability & non -- change, a state of security
i. e. where there is not any more rebirth or re -- death. So Bdhgh at KhA 180 (on Sn 225) "na j!yati na j"yati
na m"yati ti amatan ti vuccati", or at DhA i.228 "aj!tatt! na jiyyati na miyyati tasm! amatan ti vuccati". --
Vin i.7 = M i.169 (ap!rut! tesa' amatassa dv!r!); Vin i.39; D ii.39, 217, 241; S i.32 (= r!gadosamoha --
khayo), 193; iii.2 (˚ena abhisitta "sprinkled with A."); iv.94 (˚assa d!t!), 370; v.402 (˚assa patti); A i.45 sq.;
iii.451; iv.455; v.226 sq., 256 sq. (˚assa d!t!); J i.4 (v.25); iv.378, 386; v.456 (˚mah! -- nibb!na); Sn 204,
225, 228 (= nibb!na KhA 185); Th 1, 310 (= agada antidote); It 46 = 62 (as dh!tu), 80 (˚assa dv!ra); Dh
114, 374 (= amata -- mah! -- nibb!na DhA iv.110); Miln 258 (˚dhura savanûpaga), 319 (agado amata' &
nibb!na' amata'), 336 (amatena loka' abhisiñci Bhagav!), 346 (dhamm! âmata'); DA i.217 (˚nibb!na);
DhA i.87 (˚' p!yeti); D!vs ii.34; v.31; Sdhp 1, 209, 530, 571. -- ogadha diving into the ambrosia (of
Nibb!na) S v. 41, 54, 181, 220, 232; A iii.79, 304; iv.46 sq., 317, 387; v.105 sq.; Sn 635; Th 1, 179, 748;
Dh 411 (= amata' nibb!na' ogahetv! DhA iv.186); Vv 5020. -- osadha the medicine of Ambrosia,
ambrosial medicine Miln 247. -- g!min going or leading to the ambrosia (of Nibb!na) S i.123; iv.370; v.8;
A iii.329; Th 2, 222. -- dasa one who sees Amata or Nibb!na Th 1, 336. -- dundubhi the drum of the
Immortal (Nibb!na) M i.171 = Vin i.8 (has ˚dudrabhi). -- dv!ra the door to Nibb!na M i.353; S i. 137 = Vin
i.5; S ii.43, 45, 58, 80; A v.346. -- dh!tu the element of Ambrosia or Nibb!na A iii.356. -- patta having
attained to Ambrosia A iv.455. -- pada the region or place of Ambrosia S i.212 ("Bourne Ambrosial" trsln.
p. 274); ii.280; Dh 21 (= amatassa adhigama -- vup!yo vutta' hoti DhA i.228). -- phala ambrosial fruit S
i.173 = Sn 80. -- magga the path to Ambrosia DhA i.94.
Amata
Amata2 (adj.) [see amata1] belonging to Am%ta = ambrosial Sn 452 = S i.189 (amat! v!c! = amata -- sadis!
s!dubh!vena SnA 399: "ambrosial"), 960 (gacchato amata' disa' = nibb!na', ta' hi amatan ti tath!
niddisitabbato dis! c! ti SnA 572). Perhaps also at It 46 = 62 (amata' dh!tu' = ambrosial state or Am%ta as
dh!tu).
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