The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

forefathers, ancestors J i.2; PvA 107 (= pit!mah!). -- f. ayyak! grandmother, granny Vin ii.169; S i.97; J
ii.349 (here used for "lady", as v. l. BB); & ayyik! Th 2, 159; Vism 379.
Ara
Ara [Vedic ara fr. %, %*oti; see etym. under appeti & cp. more esp. Lat. artus limb, Gr. a(/rma chariot, also P.
a**ava] the spoke of a wheel D ii.17 (sahass! âra adj. with thousand spokes), cp. Miln 285; J iv.209;
vi.261; Miln 238; DhA ii.142; VvA 106 (in allegorical etym. of arahant = sa's!ra -- cakkassa ar!na' hatatt!
"breaker of the spokes of the wheel of transmigration") = PvA 7 (has sa's!ra -- va&&assa); VvA 277.
Arakkhiya
Arakkhiya (adj.) [a + rakkhiya, grd. of rakkhati] not to be guarded, viz. (1) impossible to watch (said of
women folk) J ii.326 (a. n!ma itthiyo); iii.90 (m!tug!mo n!ma a.). -- (2) unnecessary to be guarded Vin
ii.194 (Tath!gat!).
Arakkheyya
Arakkheyya (adj.) [in form = arakkhiya] only in nt. "that which does not need to be guarded against", what
one does not need to heed, superfluous to beware of A iv.82 (catt!ri Tath!gatassa a˚ !ni). -- 3 arakkheyy!ni
are enumd. at D iii.217 (but as !rakkh˚, which is also given by Childers).
Aragha&&a
Aragha&&a [Sk. aragha&&aka (so Hal!yudha, see Aufrecht p. 138), dialect.] a wheel for raising water from a
well Bdgh. on cakkava&&aka at cv v.16, 2 (Vin ii.318). So read for T. arahatta -- gha&i -- yanta acc to Morris,
J.P.T.S. 1885, 30; cp. also Vin. Texts iii.112. -- The 2rd part of the cpd. is doubtful; Morris & Aufrecht
compare the modern Hind" form arha& or raha& "a well -- wheel".
Araja
Araja (adj.) [a + raja] free from dust or impurity S iv.218 (of the wind); Vv 536 (= apagata -- raja VvA
236).
Arañña
Arañña (nt.) [Vedic ara*ya; from ara*a, remote, + ya. In the Rig V. ara*ya still means remoteness (opp. to
am!, at home). In the Ath V. it has come to mean wilderness or forest. Connected with !r!d and !re,
remote, far from]. forest D i.71; M i.16; iii.104; S i.4, 7, 29, 181, 203 (mah!); A i.60 (˚vanapatth!ni); ii.252;
iii.135, 138; Sn 39, 53, 119; Dh 99, 329, 330; It 90; Vv 567; Ps i.176. [The commentators, give a wider
meaning to the word. Thus the O. C. (Vin iii.46, quoted Vism 72 & SnA 83) says every place, except a
village and the approach thereto, is arañña. See also Vin iii.51; DA i.209; PvA 73; VvA 249; J i.149, 215;
ii.138; v.70]. -- !yatana a forest haunt Vin ii.201; S ii.269; J i.173; VvA 301; PvA 54, 78, 141. -- ku&ik! a
hut in the forest, a forest lodge S i.61; iii.116; iv.116, 380; DhA iv.31 (as v. l.; T. has ˚ku&i). -- gata gone
into the forest (as loneliness) M i.323; A iii.353; v.109 sq., 207, 323 sq. -- &h!na a place in the forest J i.253.
-- v!sa a dwelling in the forest, a hermitage J i.90. -- vih!ra living in (the) loneliness (of the forest) A
iii.343 sq.
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