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Pali-English dictionary

Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionary

dassanīya : (adj.) fair to behold; beautiful; handsome.

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

Dassanīya, (adj.) (Sk. darśanīya; grd. formation of dassana, also as dassaneyya) fair to behold, beautiful, good-looking (=dassituṃ yutta DA.I, 141), often in formula abhirūpa d. pāsādika paramāya vaṇṇapokkharatāya samannāgata to express matchless physical beauty: D.I, 114; S.II, 279; PvA.46 etc. Also with abhirūpa & pāsādika alone of anything fair & beautiful: D.I, 47.—Vin.IV, 18; S.I, 95; J.III, 394; Pug.52, 66; DA.I, 281; PvA.44 (=subha), 51 (=rucira).—Comparative dassanīyatara S.I, 237; Sdhp.325: DhA.I, 119. (Page 317)

Source: Sutta: Pali Word Grammar from Pali Myanmar Dictionary

dassanīya (ဒဿနီယ) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[disa+anīya．dassana+īya．dassanaṃ arahatīti dassanīyaṃ．nīti,sutta.775]
[ဒိသ+အနီယ။ ဒဿန+ဤယ။ ဒဿနံ အရဟတီတိ ဒဿနီယံ။ နီတိ၊သုတ္တ။၇၇၅]

[Pali to Burmese]

Source: Sutta: Tipiṭaka Pāḷi-Myanmar Dictionary (တိပိဋက-ပါဠိမြန်မာ အဘိဓာန်)

dassanīya—

(Burmese text): (၁) ကြည့်ရှု-အပ်-သင့်-ထိုက်-သော။ (၂) ကြည့်ရှုကြောင်းဖြစ်သော။ (၃) ကြည့်ရှုရာဖြစ်သော။ (၄) ကြည့်ရှုခြင်း-ကို-ငှာ-ထိုက်သော၊ ကြည့်-ရှု-လောက်သော၊အကြည့်-အရှု-သွားရောက်ထိုက်သော၊သွားရောက်-ကြည့်-ရှု-ထိုက်သော။ (၅) (ကြည့်ရှုရုံမျှဖြင့် ချမ်းသာကို ဆောင်နိုင်သည်ဖြစ်၍) မျက်စိ(စက္ခုပသာဒ)၏ အစီးအပွါးဖြစ်သော။ (မောဂ်၊၄။၆၉-သျ-လည်း ကြည့်ပါ)။ မူရင်းကြည့်ပါ။

(Auto-Translation): (1) Worth watching. (2) Related to watching. (3) Pertaining to watching. (4) Suitable for observing, capable of being watched, appropriate for viewing, fitting for observing. (5) (Since it is said that wealth can be achieved merely by watching) the eyes (of the world) are the source of wealth. (Refer to Moga, 4.69 as well). Look at the original.

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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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Aniya, Disha.

Starts with: Dassaniyabhavavaha, Dassaniyadassanattha, Dassaniyangapaccanga, Dassaniyarupapatilabha, Dassaniyasamvejaniyatthanakittana, Dassaniyatara, Dassaniyatasiddhi, Dassaniyattha.

Full-text: Tulyadassaniyabhava, Dassaniyasamvejaniyatthanakittana, Dassaniyadassanattha, Dassaniyattha, Dassaneyya, Abhirupa, Rucira, Yutta.

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