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Abhejjj 71 A niaya
abhijja-hadaya) ; Pug 30 (= acchejja Pug A 212); Miln 160
("parisa); Sdhp 312 (+ appadusiya); Pgdp 97 ("parivara).
AmaCCa [Vedic amatya (only in meaning "companion"),
adj. formation fr. amS an adverbial loc.-gen. of pron. I^'
person, Sk. ahar) = Idg. *emo (cp. Sk. ra-araa), meaning
"(those) of me or with me", i. e. those who are in my
house] I. friend, companion, fellow-worker, helper, esp.
one who gives his advice, a bosom-friend It 73 ; J VI.
512 (sahajata amacca); Pv u.t'^" (a °— paricarika welladvising
friends as company or around him). Freq. in
comb" with mitta as mitt^ amacca, friends &: colleagues
D 111.189—90; S 190 = A 11.67; PvA 29; or with nati
(nati-salohita intimate friends & near-relations), mitt&macca
fiatisalohits Vin n.126; Sn p. 104 (^ mitla ca Uamma-
kara ca SnA 447); mitta va amacca va nati va salohita
va A 1.222; PvA 28; amacca nati-sangha ca A 1.152. —
2. Especially a king's intimate friend, king's favourite,
confidant J 1.262 ; PvA 73 (°kula), 74 (amacca ca puro-
hito ca), 81 (sabba-kammika amacca), 93; and his special
adviser or piivy councillor, as such distinguished from the
official ministers (purohita, mahamatta, parisajja); usually
combd. with parisajja (pi.) viz. D 1.136 (= piya-sahayaka
DA 1.297, but cp. the foil, expl"- of parisajja as "sesa
anatti-kara"); Vin 1.348; D 111.64 (amacca parisajja ganakamahamatta);
A 1.142 (catunnaq maharajanai) a. parisajja).
See on the question of ministers in general Fick, Sociale
Gliederung p. 93, 164 & Banerjea, Public Administralion
in Ancient India pp. 106— 120.
Amajja [etym.?] a bud J v.416 (= makula C).
Amajjapayaka [a + majja + payaka, cp. Sk. amadyapa]
one who abstains from intoxicants, a teetotaler J 11.192.
Amata' (nt.) [a -)- mata = mrta pp. of mf, Vedic ararla :=
Gr. a-fi((3)poT-o & iiififoiria ^ Lat. im-mort-a(lis] i. The
drink of the gods, ambrosia, water of immortality, (cp.
BSk. amrta-varsa "rain of Ambrosia" Jtm 221). — 2. A
general conception of a state of durability & non-change,
a state of security i. e. where there is not any more rebirth
or re-death. So Bdhgh at Kh.\ 180 (on Sn 225) "na
jayati na jiyati na miyati ti amatan ti vuccati", or at DhA
1.228 "ajatatta na jiyyati na miyyati tasma amatan tl
vuccati". — Vin 1.7 ^ M 1. 169 (aparuta tesar) amatassa
dvara); Vin 1.39; D 11.39, 217, 241; S 1.32 (= ragadosamoha-khayo),
193; 111.2 ("ena abhisitta "sprinkled with
A."); IV.94 (°assa data), 370; v.402 (°assa patti); A 1.45
sq.; 111.451; IV.455; V.226 sq., 256 sq. (°assa data); j
1.4 (V.25); IV.378, 386; V.456 (°maha-nibbana); Sn 204,
225, 228 (=: nibbana KhA 185); Th 1, 310 (= agada
antidote); It 46 =: 62 (as dh.itu), 80 (°assa dvara); Dh
114, 374 (= araata-maha-nibbsna DhA iv.iio); Miln 258
(°dhura savanupaga), 319 (agado amataij & nibbanar)
amataq), 336 (amatena lokai) abhisinci Bhagava), 346
(dhamm' amatai]); DA 1.217 ("nibbana); DhA 1. 87 (°i)
payeti); Davs 11.34; v.31; Sdhp i, 209, 530, 571.
-ogadba diving into the ambrosia (of Nibbana) S v.
41, 54, 181, 220, 232; A 111.79, 3°4; IV.46 sq., 317,
387; V.105 sq.; Sn 635; Th I, 179, 748, Dh 411 (=
amatar) nibbanaij ogahetva DhA IV.186); Vv 50'"'. -osadha
the medicine of Ambrosia, ambrosial medicine Miln 247.
-gamin going or leading to the ambrosia (of Nibbana)
S 1. 123; 1V.370; V.8; A 111.329; Th 2, 222. -dasa one
who sees Amata or Nibbana Th i, 336. -dundubhi the
drum of the Immortal (Nibbana) M 1.171 =r Vin 1.8 (has
°dudrabhi). -dvara the door to Nibbana M 1.353; S i.
137 = Vin 1.5; S 11.43, 45, 58, 80; A V.346. -dhatu
the element of Ambrosia or Nibbana A III. 356. -patta
having attained to Ambrosia A IV.455. -pada the region
or place of Ambrosia S 1.2 1 2 ("Bourne Ambrosial" Irsl"p.
274); 11.280; Dh 21 (= amatassa adhigama-vupayo
vultai) hoti DhA 1.228). -pbala ambrosial fruit S 1.173
= Sn 80. -magga the path to Ambrosia DhA 1.94.
Amata^ (adj.) [see amata'] belonging to Amrta = ambrosial
Sn 452 = S 1. 1 89 (amata vaca = amata-sadisa sadubhavena
SnA 399: "ambrosial"), 960 (gacchati amatai) disai) =
nibbanar), tar| hi amatan ti tathi niddisilabbato disa ca
ti SnA 572). Perhaps also at It 46 = 62 (amatar) dha-
tuq =: ambrosial state or Amrta as dhatu).
Amatabbaka (?) at VvA III, ace. to Hardy (Index) "a
precious stone of dark blue colour".
Amattannu (adj.) [a + matta -|- "iiu = Sk. amatrajna] not
knowing any bounds (in the taking of food), intemperate,
immoderate It 23 (bhojanamhi); Dh 7 (id.); Pug 21.
Amattannuta (f) [abstr. to prec] immoderation (in foo4)
D 111.213; It 23 (bhojane); Pug 21; Dhs 1346 (bhojane)
DhsA 402.
Amatteyyata (f.) [from matteyyata] irreverence towards
one's mother D ill. 70, 71.
AmanuSSa [a manussa] a being which is not human, a
-ffairy
demon, ghost, god, spirit, yakkha Vin 1.277 ; D 1.
116; S 1. 9 1, J 1.99; Dhs 617; Miln 207; DhsA 319; DhA
1.13 ("pariggahlta haunted); PvA 216. — Cp. amanusa.
AmanUSSika (adj.) [fr. amanussa] belonging to or caused
by a spirit Vin 1.202, 203 ("abadha being possessed by
a demon).
Amama (adj.) [a -|- mama, gen. of ahaq, pron. l^t person,
lit. "not (saying: this is) of me"] not egotistical, unselfish
Sn 220 (-|- subbata), 777; J IV. 372 (+ nirasaya); vi.259
(= mamayana-tanha-rahita C.); Pv iv.i^* (^ mamaqkaravirahita
PvA 230); Mhvs I, 66, combd- with nirasa (free
from longing), at Sn 469 = 494; Ud 32; J iv.303; vi.259.
Amara (adj.) [a -f mara from mf] not mortal, not subject
to death Th 1, 276; Sn 249 (= amara-bhava-patthanataya
pavatta-kaya-kilesa SnA 291); J v.8o(= amarana-sabhava),
218; Davs V.62.
Amaratta (nt.) [abstr. fr. amara] immortality J v.223 (=
devatta C).
Amara (?) a kind of slippery fish, an eel (?) Only in expression
amara-vikkhepika eel-wobbler, one who practices
eel-wriggling, fr. "vikkhepa "oscillation like the a. fish".
In English idiom "a man who sits on the fence" D 1.24;
M 1.521; Ps 1. 155. The expl"- given by Bdhgh at DA
1.1 15 is "amara nama maccha-jati, sa ummujjana-nimmujjan
adi vasena . . gahetur) na .sakkoti" etc. This meaning
is not beyond doubt, but Kern's expl"- Toev. 71 does not
help to clear it up.
Amala (adj.) [a -f- mala] without stain or fault J V.4; Sdhp
246, 59>, 596.
Amassuka (adj.) [a + massu -f- ka] beardless J 11.175.
Amajata (adj.) [amS -j- jsta; ama adv. "at home", Vedic
ama, see under amacca] born in the house, of a slave J
1.226 (dasa, so read for amajata, an old mistake, expHby
C. forcibly as "ama ahaq vo dasi ti"!). See also amaya.
Amatika (adj.) [a -f matika from mata] without a mother,
motherless J V.2SI.
Amanusa (adj.) [Vedic amanusa, usually of demons, but
also of gods; a + manusa, cp. amanussa] non- or superhuman,
unhuman, demonic, peculiar to a non-human
(Peta or Yakkha) Pv 11. I2-^ (ksma); iv.i" (as n.); iv.3«
(gandha, of Petas). — f. °l Dh 373 (rati = dibba rati
DhA IV. no); Pv lli.7» (ratti, love).
Amamaka (adj.) [a + mama 4" ka, cp. amama] "not of me"
i. e. not belonging to my party, not siding with me
DhA 1.66.
AmSya (adj.) [a + maya] not deceiving, open, honest Sn 941
(see Nd' 422: maya vuccati vancanikii cariyS). Cp. next.