Munati, Munāti: 2 definitions
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Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionarymunāti : (mum + a) knows; understands.
Source: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English DictionaryMunāti, (=manyate, prob. corresponding to Sk. med. manute, with inversion *munati and analogy formation after jānāti as munāti, may be in allusion to Sk. mṛṇāti of mṛ to crush, or also mā mināti to measure out or fathom. The Dhtm 589 gives as root mun in meaning “ñāṇa. ” The word is more a Com. word than anything else, formed from muni & in order to explain it) to be a wise man or muni, to think, ponder, to know Dh. 269 (yo munāti ubho loke munī tena pavuccati), which is explained at DhA. III, 396 as follows: “yo puggalo ... tulaṃ āropetvā minanto viya ime ajjhattikā khandhā ime bāhirā ti ādinā nayena ime ubho pi atthe mināti munī tena pavuccati. ” Note. The word occurs also in Māgadhī (Prk.) as muṇaï which as Pischel (Prk. Gr. § 489) remarks, is usually taken to man, but against this speaks its meaning “to know” & Pāli munāti. He compares maṇaï with Vedic mūta in kāma-mūta (driven by kāma; mūta=pp. of mū=mīv) and Sk. muni. Cp. animo movere. (Page 538)
Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.
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Dhammapada (Illustrated) (by Ven. Weagoda Sarada Maha Thero)
Verse 268-269 - The Story of the Followers of Non-Buddhist Doctrines < [Chapter 19 - Dhammaṭṭha Vagga (Established in Dhamma)]
Visuddhimagga (the pah of purification) (by Ñāṇamoli Bhikkhu)
A. Description of the Bases (āyatana) < [Chapter XV - The Bases and Elements (āyatana-dhātu-niddesa)]