Pajahati: 2 definitions

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Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionary

pajahati : (pa + hā + a) (hā is doubled and the former h is chaged to j.), gives up; renounces; forsakes; abandons.

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

Pajahati, (°jahāti) (pa+jahati of ) to give up, renounce, forsake, abandon, eliminate, let go, get rid of; frequent as synonym of jahati (see Nd2 under jahati with all forms). Its wide range of application with reference to all evils of Buddhist ethics is seen from exhaustive Index at S VI, 57 (Index vol.).—Pres. pajahati S. I, 187; III, 33=Nd2 680, Q 3 (yaṃ na tumhākaṃ taṃ pajahatha); It. 32 (kiṃ appahīnaṃ kiṃ pajahāma); 117; A. IV, 109 sq. (akusalaṃ, sāvajjaṃ); Sn. 789 (dukkhaṃ), 1056, 1058; Ps. I, 63; II, 244. ppr. pajahaṃ S. III, 27; fut. pahāssaṃ (cp. Geiger, P. Gr. § 1511) M. II, 100.—aor. pajahi & pahāsi Vin. I, 36; S. I, 12=23 (saṅkhaṃ); Sn. 1057.—ger. pahāya S. I, 12 (kāme), 23 (vicikicchaṃ), 188 (nīvaraṇāni), Sn. 17, 209, 520 & passim; Nd2 430; PvA. 16, 122 (=hitvā), 211; pahatvāna Sn. 639, and pajahitvā. fut. pajahissati S. II, 226.—grd. pahātabba M. I, 7; Sn. 558; VvA. 73, & pajahitabba — pp. pahīna (q. v.).—Pass. pahīyati (q. v.). (Page 386)

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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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