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Abhidhānappadīpikāpāṭha -(Semantics Lamp Text)

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Because of acting without investigation, he indeed should be known as fickle. 739. Mean, miserly, obstinate, avaricious, wretched, and also; Having nothing, poor, and wretched, poor, unfortunate. 740. An unexpected occurrence, is called a crow-palm; Then there is a beggar, and a beggar, and a mendicant. 741. Egg-born are birds, snakes, etc., but womb-born are humans, etc.; Moisture-born are worms, insects, etc., but gods, etc., are spontaneously arisen. 742. Knee-deep, knee-high, suitable, but slightly less; Included, indeed pervading, fallen into, contained within, unfathomable. 743. Accomplished, prepared, and also, fully cooked, decayed should be; Afflicted, fallen into misfortune, helpless, helpless should be. 744. Pushed away, pushed away, taken, thrown, if, empty, pierced, then trembled; Shaken, shaken, moved, sharpened, and sharpened. 745. To be reached, to be gone to, to be attained, ripe, matured, equal; Wrapped, but encircled, stopped, together... Covered, enclosed. 746. Surrounded and covered, Spread out, extended, stretched; Smeared, soiled, concealed; Guarded, nourished, fed. 747. Ashamed, scorned, and also, Sounded, roared, and also; Bound, tied, fastened, Restrained, controlled, should be. 748. Accomplished, produced, arisen, Torn, broken, split; Covered, concealed, and also, Pierced, perforated, struck. 749. Brought, fetched, led, Tamed, subdued, should be; Calmed, appeased, and, Full, filled, should be. 750. Honored, revered, Worshipped, revered, honored; Respected, and honored, Carved, made thin. 751. Heated, fumigated, agitation, Practiced, served; Fallen, dropped, gone, Fallen, destroyed, should be. 752. Delighted, joyful, thrilled, Intoxicated, satisfied, and pleased; Cut off, mown, cut, and, Praised, described, extolled. 753. Wet, moist, wet, soaked, moist, Sought, searched; Sought, searched, Obtained, reached, is said. 754. Protected, guarded, protected, Protected, guarded, protected; Cherished, and abandoned, Given up, forsaken, cast off. 755. Spoken, talked, said, Said, told, muttered; Uttered, and told, Spoken, said, spoken. 756. Despised, disregarded, Scorned, disrespected; Hungry, hungry, Hungry, and hungry. 757. Known, known, understood, Known, understood, known; Swallowed, eaten, enjoyed, Eaten, consumed, eaten. Thus ends the chapter on Adjectives/Dependent Words. 2. Chapter on Miscellaneous Words 758. Gender should be known here sometimes, And according to the meaning of the suffix; Action, deed, action; Peace, tranquility, calm; Self-control, and taming, self-controlled, Conduct, in pure action; And then, word of attachment, Said in the three, refuge. 759. Breaking, tearing, bursting, Satisfying, and nourishing; Reviling, accusation; Alms, begging, request. 760. Signless, y Desire, inquiry, and delight; Respect, then, knowledge, And method, prosperity, and growth. 761. Weariness, fatigue, birth, then, procreation; Excellence, then, excess, And victory, triumph, conquest. 762. Control, desire, piercing, penetration, Seizing, grasp, choice, utterance; Cooking, ripeness, calling, offering, Knowledge, sensation, or desire. 763. Aging, decay, protection, then, guarding, measure, extent; Clinging, connection, and destruction, Then, decline, sound, battle. 764. Recitation, utterance, intoxication, madness, binding, fetter; Sign, then, gesture, indication, Then, loss of meaning, expense. 765. Obstacle, and impediment, Change, then, also alteration; Separation, distress, sitting down, seat. 766. Intention, purpose, aim, and resolve; State, determination, and will, then, Fault, disadvantage, exist. 777. Advantage, and quality, then, Middle, impartiality, is said; Midday, then, noon, difference, then, and diversity. 768. Or, wakefulness, waking, flow, then, and continuity; Diffusion, proliferation, expansion, Restraint, then, self-control, discipline. 769. Massage, and rubbing, spreading, then, diffusion; Familiarity, then, acquaintance, Meeting, association, gathering. 770. Proximity, nearness, destruction, then, disappearance; Cutting, reaping, harvesting, Opportunity, occasion, are synonyms. 771. End, conclusion, excellence, excess, exists; Arrangement, and structure, then, interior, inside. 772. Miracle, wonder, marvel, is said; Duty, then, task, and formation, latent tendency, exist. 773. Winnowing, winnowing, reeling, winding thread; Bridge, difficult passage, approach, then, undertaking. 774. Recitation, repetition, study, investigation, search, in masculine; Embrace, clasp, clinging, hugging. 775. Looking, and gazing, seeing, vision, also. Rejection, expulsion, refusal, denial. 776. Perversion, alteration, reversal, inversion; Perversion, transgression, excessive falling, accumulation. Thus the Mixed Chapter. 3. Chapter of Polysemous Words 777. Polysemous words I will explain, in order from half-verses; Here, for gender distinction, one word is repeated. 778. Occasion: in conjunction, in a group, in a cause, in a moment; In penetration, in time, in abandonment, in gain, in views. 779. Color: in form, in appearances, in birth, in complexions, in a cause; In measure, in praise, in a letter, in fame, in quality. 780. Uposatha: in the recitation of the Pātimokkha, in an ordinance; In fasting, in the eight-limbed (precepts), on the Uposatha day. 781. Dhamma: in a chariot-part, in a mark, in a chariot-wheel, in the path of effort; Wheel: in success, in a wheel-jewel, in a circle, in power. 782. In a potter's vessel, by command, in a weapon, in giving, in heaps. 783. In giving, in the holy life, in the immeasurables, in the teaching; In aversion to sexual intercourse, in service, in constant contentment; The five precepts, the noble path, the Uposatha limbs, in steadfastness. 784. Dhamma: in nature, in scriptural knowledge, in truths, in natural states, in merit; In the knowable, in qualities, in conduct, in concentration, in non-self, in transgressions, in causes, etc. 785. Meaning: in purpose, in sound, in what is expressed, in growth, in wealth; In an object, in a cause, in destruction, in welfare, in the western mountain. 786. Mostly: in unmixed things, in disjunction, and solely; In firmness, in non-excess, in what is not remaining, that in three (genders). 787. Quality: in a layer, in heaps, in advantage, in a bond; In secondary things, in virtue etc., in white etc., in a bowstring. 788. Being: in trees etc., in existing things, in Arahants, in the five aggregates; A being, the seven great elements, among humans, not among women. 789. Verbal gender: in the past, in what is born, in what is attained, in what is equal, it is considered. 790. Good: in beauty, in strengthening, in entreaty, in acceptance; In good people, in delight, good is a word with gender. 791. End: in completion, in proximity, in conclusion, in filling a word; In a body part. In parts, in destruction, in boundaries, in what is trifling. 792. In collections, in union, in commonality, in births, in family, in existence; In distinction, and in joy, in birth, in the characteristic of the conditioned. 793. In kinds of existence, in establishment, in conclusion, in intention and understanding; In dwelling place, and in going, in diffusion, "gati" is said. 794. In fruit, in insight, in divine eye, and in omniscience; In the knowledge of reviewing, and in the path, knowledge and vision. 795. In the blacksmith's furnace, in charcoal, in potsherd, in torches; In the goldsmith's crucible, in meteor, and in the speed of wind. 796. In removal of hair, in life, in livelihoods, in sowing, and in making equal; In speaking, in the state of freedom, in seeking, etc., it is also said in three genders. 797. In going, and in what is renowned, in what is held, in what is accumulated; In application, and in what is wet, "suta" has the gender of the denoted object. 798. In what is knowable by ear, in sciences, "suta" is neuter; In son, "suta" may be masculine. 799. "Kappa" is in time, in eon, in trifle, in designation, in the highest lifespan; In what is similar, in three genders, in monk, in usage, in drops of water; In the meaning of "all around," in intermediate eons, etc., in reasoning, and in method. 800. In Nibbana, in path, in abstention, in oath, in what is spoken truthfully; In truth, and in Noble Truth, in view, "sacca" is said. 801. In the place of origin, in cause, in dwelling places, in forms; And in the place of meeting, "āyatana" is in filling up a verse. 802. "Antara" is middle, cloth, other, moment, opportunity, over, in causes; In interval, and in what is destroyed, in division, in hole, and of mind. 803. In health, "kusala" is desirable; In result, "kusala" is likewise; In what is blameless, and in what is clever, it is said to have the gender of the word it qualifies. 804. In liquids, in conduct, in energy, in sweet things, etc., in mercury; In erotic sentiment, etc., in kinds of elements, in duty, in success, "rasa" is. 805. In enlightenment, in omniscient knowledge, in the Noble Path, and in woman; In designation, in man, in the sacred fig tree, in tree, in man and woman. 806. Where one is always served by someone, there also "visaya" may be; In forms, etc., in country, likewise in place, and in range. 807. "Bhāva" is in the meaning of a word, in existence, in intention, and in actions. In nature and in play, in male and female senses. 808. He, in relatives and self, he, in wealth, is neuter; She, in men, in dogs, is said, he, in self, is of three genders. 809. Gold, in metal, is said, gold, in eagles, likewise; In five-dharaṇa measure, and in beauty of complexion. 810. Excellent, in gods and the like, in what is desired, in son-in-law, in husband; In the best, it is of all genders, excellent, in the little-liked, is an indeclinable. 811. In a bud, in a heap of wealth, kosa may be neuter; In a sword's sheath and the like, and in five hundred bows.