The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

(Sk. t! & tva'), as lahu&&h!na=lahut! & collect. formations in ˚ti (Sk. da$ati ten -- hood; devat!ti godhead,
sarvat!ti=P. sabbatta' comprehensiveness; cp. also Lat. civit!tem, juvent(tem). -- S i.129 (condition) ii.27
(asabha˚)=M i.69; S iii.57 (atasit!ya' fearless state): A ii.118 sq. (four conditions); >h 137 (dasanna'
aññatara' th.˚ nigacchati he undergoes one of the foll. ten conditions, i. e. items of affliction, expld at DhA
iii.70 with k!ra*a "labours"), 309 (states=dukkhak!ra*!ni DhA iii.482, conditions of suffering or ordeals);
hattha -- pas!ra*a -- &&h!na condition of outstretched hands DhA i.298; loc. &h!ne ( -- ˚) when required,
at the occasion of . . . DhA i.89 (hasitabba˚, sa'vega˚, d!tu' yutta˚); pubbe nibbatta -- &&h!nato pa&&h!ya
"since the state (or the time) of his former birth" PvA 100. -- vibh(sana&&h!na ornamentation, decoration,
things for adornment D i.5; Sn 59 (DA i.77 superficially: &h!na' vuccati k!ra*a'; SnA 112 simply vibh(s!
eva v -- &&h!na'); j(ta -- pam!da˚ (gambling & intoxication) D i.6# (cp. expl. at KhA 26); gata˚ & !gata˚
(her) going & coming J iii.188; -- paricc!ga˚ distribution of gifts PvA 124. -- (b) (part=) attribute, quality,
degree: aggas!vaka˚ (degrees of discipleship) VvA 2; esp. in set of 10 attributes, viz. r(pa (etc. 1 -- 5), !yu,
va**a, sukha, yasa, !dhipateyya D iii.146; S iv.275; Pv ii.958, also collectively [see (a)] as dasa&&h!na' S
i.193; out of these are mentioned as 4 attributes !yu, va**a, sukha, bala at Vv 327; other ten at A v.129
(p!sa's!ni). (c) (counter -- part=) object ( -- ˚ for), thing; item, point; pl. grounds, ways, respects. With
a numeral often=a (five)fold collection of . . . S iv.249 sq. (5 objects or things, cp. Ger. fünferlei); A iii.54
sq. (id.), 60 sq., 71 sq.; etehi t"hi &h!nehi on these 3 grounds Dh 224; manuss! t"hi &h!nehi bahu' puñña'
pasavanti: k!yena v!c!ya manas! (in 3 ways, qualities or properties) A 151 sq.; cp. ii.119 sq. (=sa'vuta'
t"hi &h!nehi Dh 391); catuhi &h!nehi in Com. equals catuhi !k!rehi or k!ra*ehi p!mujjakara*a' &h. (object)
Sn 256; ekaccesu &h!nesu sameti ekaccesu na sameti "I agree in certain points, but not in others" D i.162;
kankhaniya˚ doubtful point S iv.350, 399; -- n' atthi añña' &h!na' no other means, nothing else DhA ii.90;
agaman"ya˚ something not to be done, not allowed VvA 72; cp. also kamma˚. -- (d) (standpoint=) ground
for (assumption) reason, supposition, principle, esp. a sound conclusion, logic, reasonableness (opp. a˚ see
4): garayha' th. !gacchati "he advocates a faulty principle" D i.161;
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catuhi &h. paññ!peti (four arguments) S iii.116; iv.380; &h!na -- kusala accomplished in sound reasoning S
iii.61 sq. (satta˚); A ii.170 sq. Also with a&&h!na -- kusala: see below 4. III. Adverbial use of some cases
acc. &h!na': ettaka' &h. even a little bit DhA i.389. -- abl. &h!naso: in combn w. hetuso with reason & cause,
causally conditioned [see 2 (d)] S v.304; A iii.417; v.33; Nett 94 (ñ!*a); abs. without moving (see I. 1 (b) &
cp. Lat. statim) i. e. without an interval or a cause (of change), at once, immediately, spontaneously,
impromptu (cp. cpd.˚ uppatti) S i.193; v.50, 321, 381; Pv i.44 (=kha*a' yeva PvA 19). -- loc. &h!ne
instead= like, as dh"tu &h!ne &hapesi he treats her like a daughter VvA 209; putta&&h!ne as a son J ii.132. IV.
Contrasted with negation of term (&h!na & a&&h!na). The meanings in this category are restricted to those
mentioned above under 1 [esp. 1 (c)] & 2 (d), viz. the relations of place>not place (or wrong place, also as
proper time & wrong time), i. e. somewhere>nowhere, and of possibility>impossibility (truth> falsehood).
(a) &h!na' upagacchati (pathaviy!) to find a (resting) place on the ground, to stay on the ground (by means
of the law of attraction and gravitation) Miln 255; opp. na &h!na' upa˚ to find no place to rest, to go into
nothingness Miln 180, 237, 270. -- (b) &h!na' vijjati there is a reason, it is logically sound, it is possible D
i.163, 175; M iii.64; Ps ii.236 sq.; cp. M Vastu ii.448; opp. na eta' &h!na' vijjati it is not possible, feasible,
plausible, logically correct Vin ii.284; D i.104, 239; M ii.10; iii.64; Miln 237; Nett 92 sq. -- (c) a&&h!na' an
impossibility Sn 54 (a&&h!na, with elision of '); a&&h!ne at the wrong time J i.256; &h!na is that one of the
gatis which is accessible to human influence, as regards gifts of relief or sacrifice (this is the pettivisaya),
whilst a&&h!na applied to the other 4 gatis (see gati) PvA 27 sq. In cpd. &h!nâ&h!na -- gata it means referring
or leading to good & bad places (gatis): of sabbe khayadhamm! (i. e. keci saggûpag! keci ap!yûpag!) Nett
94. In combn apucchi nipu*e pañhe &h!nâ&h!nagate (Miln 1) it may mean either questions concerning
possibilities & impossibilities or truths & falsehoods, or questions referring to happy & unhappy states (of
existence); &h!nâ&h!na -- ñ!*a is "knowledge of correct & faulty conclusions" Nett 94, cp. Kvu 231 sq.; the
same combn occurs with ˚kusala ˚kusalat! "accomplished or skilled (& skill) in understanding correct or
faulty conclusions" D iii.212 (one of the ten powers of the Buddha); M iii.64; Dhs 1337, 1338 (trsl. by Mrs.
Rh. D. on p. 348 Dhs. trsl. as "skill in affirming or negating causal conjuncture"). In the same sense: &h!na'
&h!nato paj!n!ti (& a&&h!na' a&&h!nato p.) to draw a logical inference from that which is a proper ground for
inference (i. e. which is logical) S v.304; M i.69 sq.=A iii.417; v.33. -- uppatti arising instantaneously (see