Padatthana, Pada-thana, Pada-tthana, Padaṭṭhāna: 4 definitions

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Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionary

padaṭṭhāna : (n.) a proximate cause.

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

Padaṭṭhāna refers to: (cp. Sk. padasthāna footprint) “proximate cause” (Cpd. 13, 23) Nett 1 sq. , 27 sq. , 40 sq. , 104; Vism. 84.

Note: padaṭṭhāna is a Pali compound consisting of the words pada and ṭṭhāna.

[Pali to Burmese]

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

1) padaṭṭhāna—

(Burmese text): (၁) ပဒဋ္ဌာနီ၊ နီးသောအကြောင်း။ (၂) တည်-မှီ-ရာ အကြောင်း။ (၃) ပုဒ်ဖြစ်ခြင်း၏ အကြောင်း၊ ပုဒ်၏ အနက်။

(Auto-Translation): (1) The reason for the Doctrine. (2) The reason for establishment. (3) The reason for becoming a verse, the essence of the verse.

2) padaṭṭhāna—

(Burmese text): နေတ္တိပဒဋ္ဌာနဟာရ၊ သုတ်၌လာသော တရားတို့၏ ပဒဋ္ဌာန်ကို စိစစ်ကြောင်း-အဖွင့်-သံဝဏ္ဏနာ-အထူး။

(Auto-Translation): The Department of Intelligence and Investigation is investigating the regulations related to the laws that have come into effect.

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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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