The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

eight anspicious signs J v.409 (expld. here to mean a horse with white hair on the face, tail, mane, and
breast, and above each of the four hoofs). -- vanka with eight facets, lit. eight -- crooked, i. e. polished on
eight sides, of a jewel J vi.388. -- vidha eightfold Dhs 219.
A&&ha
A&&ha2 see attha.
A&&haka
A&&haka (adj.) [Sk. a+&aka] -- 1. eightfold Vin i.196 = Ud 59 (˚vaggik!ni); VvA 75 = DhA iii.104 (˚bhatta). -
- 2. ˚! (f.) the eight day of the lunar month (cp. a&&ham"), in phrase ratt"su antar!a&&hak!su in the nights
between the eighths, i. e. the 8th day before and after the full moon Vin i.31, 288 (see Vin Texst i.130n); M
i.79; A i.136; Miln 396; J i.390. -- 3. ˚' (nt.) an octad Vv 672 (a&&h˚ eight octads = 64); VvA 289, 290. On
sabba&&haka see a&&ha B 1 a. See also antara.
A&&hama
A&&hama (num. ord.) [Sk. a+&ama, see a&&ha1] the eighth Sn 107, 230 (cp. KhA 187), 437. -- f. ˚" the eighth
day of the lunar half month (cp. a&&hak!) A i.144; Sn 402; Vv 166 (in all three pass. as pakkhassa c!tuddas"
pañcadas" ca a&&ham"); A i.142; Sn 570 (ito atthami, scil. divase, loc.).
A&&hamaka
A&&hamaka = a&&hama the eighth. -- 1. lit. Miln 291 (att˚ self -- eighth). -- 2. as tt. the eighth of eight persons
who strive after the highest perfection, reckoned from the first or Arahant. Hence the eighth is he who
stands on the lowest step of the Path and is called a sot!panna (q. v.) Kvu 243 -- 251 (cp. Kvu trsl. 146 sq.);
Nett 19, 49, 50; Ps ii.193 (+ sot!panna).
A&&h!na
A&&h!na (nt.) [! + &&h!na] stand, post; name of the rub- bing -- post which, well cut & with incised rows of
squares, was let into the ground of a bathing -- place, serving as a rubber to people bathing Vin ii.105, 106
(read a&&h!ne with BB; cp. Vin ii.315).
A&&hi˚
A&&hi˚1 [= attha (a&&ha) in compn. with kar & bh(, as freq. in Sk. and P. with i for a, like citti -- kata (for
citta˚), angi -- bh(ta (for anga˚); cp. the freq. combn. (with similar meaning) manasi -- kata (besides manas!
-- k.), also upadhikaroti and others. This combn. is restricted to the pp and der. (˚kata & ˚katv!). Other
explns. by Morris J. P. T. S. 1886, 107; Windisch, M. & B. 100], in combn. with katv!: to make something
one's attha, i. e. object, to find out the essence or profitableness or value of anything, to recognise the nature
of, to realise, understand, know. Nearly always in stock phrase a&&hikatv! manasikatv! D ii.204; M i.325,
445; S i.112 sq. = 189, 220; v.76; A ii.116; iii.163; J i.189; v.151 (: attano atthikabh!va' katv! atthiko
hutv! sakkacca' su*eyya C.); Ud 80 (: adhikicca, aya' no attho adhigantabbo eva' sallakkhetv! t!ya
desan!ya atthik! hutv! C.); Sdhp 220 (˚katv!na).
A&&hi
A&&hi2 (nt.) [Sk. asthi = Av. asti, Gr. o)/steon, o)/strakon, a)s- tra/galos; Lat. os (*oss); also Gr. o)/zos
branch Goth. asts] 1. a bone A i.50; iv.129; Sn 194 (˚nah!ru bones & tendons); Dh 149, 150; J i.70;
iii.26, 184; vi.448 (˚vedhin); DhA iii.109 (300 bones of the human body, as also at Su$ruta iii.5); KhA 49;