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Pali-English dictionary

Source: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

Ānejja, and Ānañja (abstr. fr. an + *añja or *ejja = *ijja. The Sanskritised equivalent would be *iñjya or *iñgya of ing to stir, move, with a peculiar substitution of *aṅg in Pāli, referring it to a base with ṛ (probably Sk. ṛj, ṛñjati) in analogy to a form like Sk. ṛṇa = Pāli aṇa & iṇa, both a & i representing Sk. ṛ. The form añja would thus correspond to a Sk. *añjya (*añgya). The third P. form ān-eñja is a direct (later, and probably re-instituted) formation from Sk. iñjya, which in an interesting way became in BSk. re-sanskritised to āñijya (which on the other hand may represent āñejja & thus give the latter the feature of a later, but more specifically Pāli form). The editions of P. Texts show a great variance of spelling, based on MSS. vacillation, in part also due to confusion of derivation) immovability, imperturbability, impassibility. The word is n. but occurs as adj. at Vin.III, 109 (ānañja samādhi, with which cp. BSk. ānijyā śāntiḥ at Av. Ś I.199. — The term usually occurs in cpd. ānejja-ppatta (adj.) immovable lit. having attained impassibility, expl^d. by Bdhgh. at Vin.III, 267 (on Pār. I.1, 6) as acala, niccala, i. e. motionless. This cpd. is indicated below by (p.) after the reference. — The various spellings of the word are as follows: — 1. ānejja D.I, 76 (v. l. ānañja-p.) A.II, 184 (p.); III, 93 (p.), 100 (p.), 377 sq. (p.); Nd² 471 (v. l. aneja, ānañja) = Vbh.137 (āneñja); Nd² 569^a (v. l. ānañja), 601 (v. l. anejja & aneñja); Pug.60 (p.); DA.I, 219 (v. l. BB āneñja). — 2. ānañja Vin.III, 4 (p.) (v. l. ānañca°, anañja°, ānañja°; Bdhgh. ānejja° p. 267), 109; Ud.27 (samādhi, adj. v. l. ānañca); DhA.IV, 46. See also below cpd. °kāraṇa. — A peculiarity of Trenckner a spelling is āṇañja at M.II, 229 (v. l. aṇañja, aneñja, āneñja), 253, 254. — 3. āneñja S.II, 82. (v. l. āṇañje, or is it āṇeñja?); D.III, 217 (°âbhisaṅkhāra of imperturbable character, remaining static, cp. Kvu trsl. 358); Nd¹ 90 (id.), 206, 442; Ps.II, 206; Vbh.135, 340; Vism.377 (p.), 386 (sixteen° fold), 571; Nett 87, 99. ‹-› See also iñjati.

—kāraṇa trick of immovability, i. e. pretending to be dead (done by an elephant, but see differently Morris J P T S. 1886, 154) J.I, 415; II, 325 (v. l. āṇañja, āneñca, ānañca); IV, 308; V, 273, 310. (Page 101)

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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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Full-text: Ananja, Eja, Injati, Anjati, Uposatha Sutta, Aninjya, Kamma.

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