Attabhava, Atta-abhava, Attabhāva, Attābhāva, Attan-bhava: 4 definitions
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attabhāva : (m.) personality; individuality.
Attabhāva refers to: one’s own nature (1) person, personality, individuality, living creature; form, appearance (cp. Dhs. trsl. LXXI and BSk. ātmabhāva body Divy 70, 73 (°pratilambha), 230; Sp. Av. Ś I, 162 (pratilambha), 167, 171) Vin. II, 238 (living beings, forms); S. V, 442 (bodily appearance); A. I, 279 (oḷārika a substantial creature); II, 17 (creature); DhA. II, 64, 69 (appearance); SnA 132 (personality).—(2) life, rebirth A. I, 134 sq. ; III, 412; DhA. II, 68; PvA. 8, 15, 166 (atītā °ā former lives). °ṃ pavatteti to lead a life, to live PvA. 29, 181. Thus in cpd. paṭilābha assumption of an existence, becoming reborn as an individual Vin. II, 185; III, 105; D. III, 231; M. III, 46; S. II, 255, 272, 283; III, 144; A. II, 159, 188; III, 122 sq.—(3) character, quality of heart Sn. 388 (= citta SnA 374); J. I, 61.
Note: attabhāva is a Pali compound consisting of the words attan and bhāva.
[Pali to Burmese]
1) attabhāva—
(Burmese text): [(၁) အတ္တ+ဘာဝ၊ (၂) အတ္တ+ဘူ+ဏ။ အာဟိတော အဟံမာနော ဧတ္ထာတိ အတ္တာ၊ သော ဧဝ ဘဝတိ ဥပ္ပဇ္ဇတိ န ပရပရိကပ္ပိတော ဝိယ နိစ္စောတိ အတ္တဘာဝေါ။ အတ္တာတိ ဝါ ဒိဋ္ဌိဂတိကေဟိ ဂဟေတဗ္ဗာကာရေန ဘဝတိ ပဝတ္တတီတိ အတ္တဘာဝေါ။ အနုဋီ၊၁၊၁၄၅။ ''အတ္တာ''တိ ဘဝတိ ဧတ္ထ အဘိမာနောတိ အတ္တဘာဝေါ။ ဝိသုဒ္ဓိ၊ဋီ၊၁၊၆။ အပရိညာဘဝတ္ထုကာနံ ''အတ္တာ''တိ ဘဝတိ ဧတ္ထ အဘိဓာန်,စိတ္တဉ္စာတိ အတ္တဘာဝေါ။ ဝိသုဒ္ဓိ၊ဋီ၊၁၊၃၆၇။ အတ္တာတိ အဘိဓာနံ ဗုဒ္ဓိ စ ဘဝန္တိ ဧတသ္မာတိ အတ္တဘာဝေါ။ ဓာန်၊ဋီ၊၁၅၁။]
အတ္တဟု အသိဉာဏ်,ဝေါဟာရတို့၏-ဖြစ်ကြောင်း-ဖြစ်ရာ-တရား။ (၁) မိမိ၏ သဘော။ (၂) ခန္ဓာ ၅-ပါးအပေါင်း၊ ရူပက္ခန္ဓာ၊ ကိုယ်၊ အတ္တဘော။ (၃) ရူပက္ခန္ဓာ,သညာက္ခန္ဓာ။ (၄) ဘဝ။ (၅) အတ္တ၏အဖြစ်။
(Auto-Translation): (1) The nature of self; (2) Personality. The essence of being is the self, which is neither dependent on external things nor independent of them. The self, as mentioned, is particularly capable of experiencing existence and is considered an integral part of life. According to the Abhidhamma, the nature of self represents a distinct aspect of reality. The composition includes five aggregates, the form body, and the essence of self. (3) The physical body and mental faculties. (4) Existence. (5) The state of self.
2) attābhāva—
(Burmese text): ငါဟု စွဲလမ်းရာအတ္တ၏ မရှိခြင်း။ အတ္တနိယာဘာဝ-ကြည့်။
(Auto-Translation): The absence of attachment, which is the nature of selflessness. Look at the nature of selflessness.
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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