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The Pali Text Society's Pali-English dictionary - Tuninst.net

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Opata<br />

Opata [o + pSta (' patati 10 fall. Vedic avapata] — i.<br />

falling or flying down, downfall, descent J v; 561. — 2. a<br />

pitfall J 1.143; I">A. IV.211.<br />

Opateti [o + Cans, of pat] to make fall, to destroy (cp.<br />

atipfiteti), i.e. I. to break, to interrupt, in kathaq opateti<br />

to interrupt a conversation M u.io, I2i, 168; A UI.137,<br />

392 sq.; Sn p. 107. — 2. to drop, to omit (a syllable)<br />

Vin IV. 1 5.<br />

Opana (nt.) [o 4- pSna fr. pivati. Vedic avapana. <strong>The</strong>' P.<br />

Commentators however take o as a contracted form of<br />

udaka, e. g. Bdhgh. at DA 1.298 = udapana]. Only in<br />

phrase opana-bhuta (adj.) a man who has become a<br />

welling spring as it were, for the satisfaction of all men's<br />

wants; explti- as "khala-pokkharani viya hutva" DA I.<br />

298 = J V.174. — Vin 1.236; D i.137; M 1.379; A IV.<br />

185; Vv 65

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