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Utu «3i Uttari
tioned, viz. the hot, rainy and wintry season or gimba,
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
in the wintry season S v. 51.
bemantikena (scil. utuna)
— (c) the menses SnA
317; J v.330 (utusinataya read utusi nhataya; utusi loc,
as expH- by C. pupphe uppanne utumhi nahataya). — 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.;
II, 8, n. Kvu trsl" ; 207 ; cp. Mrs. Rh. D.
Dialogues,
Buddhism,
p. Iigf., Cpd. 161, Dhs trsl"- introd. XVII ; & cp. cpds.
So in connection with kamma at Vism 451, 614; J VJ.105
(kamma-paccayena utuna samutthita Verarani) ; perhaps
also at Miln 410 (megha ututo samutthahitva).
-ahara physical nutriment (cp. Dhs trsl"- 174) PvA
148. -Opasevana seasonable activity, pursuit (of activities)
according to the seasons, observance of the seasons Sn 249
(= gimhe atapa-tthana-sevana vasse rukkha-mula-sevana
hemante jalappavesa-sevana SnA 291). -kala seasonable,
favourable time (of the year) Vin 1.299; "ITS- "j* produced
by the seasons or by physical change Miln 268 (kamma",
hetu°, utu°); Vism 451. -nibbatta coming to existence
through physical causes Miln 268. -pamana measure of the
season, i. e. the exact season Vin 1.95. -parinama change
(adversity) of the season (as cause of disease) S IV. 230; A
11.87; iii.