The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

Utu (m. & nt.) [Vedic %tu special or proper time, with adj. %ta straight, right, rite, %ti manner to Lat. ars "art",
Gr. damar(t), further Lat. r"tus (rite), Ags. r"m number; of *ar to fit in, adjust etc. q. v. under appeti] -- 1.
(lit.) (a) (good or proper) time, season: aru*a -- utu occasion or time of the sun( -- rise) DhA i.165; utu'
ga*h!ti to watch for the right time (in horoscopic practice), to prognosticate ibid. sar"ra' utu' ga*h!peti "to
cause the body to take season", i. e. to refresh the body by cool, sleep, washing etc. J iii.527; DA i.252. --
(b) yearly change, time of the year, season Vism 128. There are usually three seasons mentioned, viz. the
hot, rainy and wintry season or gimha, vassa & hemanta A iv.138; SnA 317. Six seasons (in connection
with nakkhatta) at J v.330 & vi.524. Often utu is to be understood, as in hemantikena (scil. utun!) in the
wintry season S v.51. -- (c) the menses SnA 317; J v.330 (utusin!t!ya read utusi nh!t!ya; utusi loc., as
expld. by C. pupphe uppanne utumhi nah!t!ya). -- 2. (applied in a philosophical sense: one of the five fold
cosmic order, physical change, physical law of causation (opp. kamma), physical order: see Asl. 272 f.;
Dialogues, II, 8, n.; Kvu trsln. 207; cp. Mrs. Rh. D. Buddhism, p. 119 f., Cpd. 161, Dhs trsln. introd. xvii;
& cp. cpds. So in connection with kamma at Vism 451, 614; J vi.105 (kamma -- paccayena utun!
samu&&hit! Verara*"); perhaps also at Miln 410 (megha ututo samu&&hahitv!). -- !h!ra physical nutriment
(cp. Dhs trsln. 174) PvA 148. -- ûpasevan! seasonable activity, pursuit (of activities) according to the
seasons, observance of the seasons Sn 249 (= gimhe !tapa -- &&h!na -- sevan! vasse rukkha -- m(la --
sevan! hemante jalappavesa -- sevan! SnA 291). -- k!la seasonable, favourable time (of the year) Vin
i.299; ii.173. -- ja produced by the seasons or by physical change Miln 268 (kamma˚, hetu˚, utu˚); Vism
451. -- nibbatta coming to existence through physical causes Miln 268. -- pam!*a measure of the season, i.
e. the exact season Vin i.95. -- pari*!ma change (adversity) of the season (as cause of disease) S iv.230; A
ii.87; iii.131; v.110; Miln 112, 304; Vism 31. -- parissaya danger or risk of the seasons A iii.388. -- pubba
festival on the eve of each of the (6) seasons J vi.524. -- v!ra time of the season, ˚v!rena ˚v!rena according
to the turn of the season J i.58. -- vik!ra change of season Vism 262. -- veraman" abstinence during the time
of menstrua"ion Sn 291 (cp. SnA 317). -- sa'vacchara the year or cycle of the seasons, pl. ˚! the seasons D
iii.85 = A ii.75; S v.442. The phrase utusa'vacchar!ni at Pv ii.955 is by Dhammap!la taken as a bahuvr"hi
cpd., viz. cycles of seasons & of years, i. e. vasanta -- gimh !dike bah( ut( ca citta -- sa'vacchar!adi
bah(ni sa'vacchar!ni ca PvA 135. Similarly at J v.330 (with Cy). -- sapp!ya suitable to the season,
seasonable DhA 327. -- samaya time of the menses SnA 317.
Utuka
Utuka ( -- ˚) (adj.) [utu + ka] seasonable, only in cpd. sabb- otuka belonging to all seasons, perennial D
ii.179; Pv iv. 122 (= pupphupaga -- rukkh!d"hi sabbesu ut(su sukkh!vaha PvA 275); Sdhp 248.
Utun"
Utun" (f.) [formed fr. utu like bhikkhun" fr. bhikkhu] a menstruating woman Vin iii.18; iv.303; S iv.239; A
iii. 221, 229; Miln 127. an˚ A iii.221, 226.
Utta
Utta [pp. of vac, Sk. ukta; for which the usual form is vutta only as dur˚ speaking badly or spoken of badly,
i. e. of bad repute A ii.117, 143; iii.163; Kh viii.2; KhA 218.
Utta*.!la
Utta*.!la (adj.) [ud + ta*.ula] "grainy", i. e. having too many rice grains (of rice gruel), too thick or solid
(opp. atikilinna too thin or liquid) J i.340; iii.383 (id.); iv.44 (id.).
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