Patthana, Paṭṭhāna, Patthanā: 6 definitions
Introduction:
Patthana means something in Buddhism, Pali, Jainism, Prakrit. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
In Buddhism
Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
Source: Dhamma Study: Introduction to the DhammaSeventh book of the Abhidhamma.
The book of origination, conditionality and dependence of all the phenomena of existence (this is the largest and the most important Abhidhamma work).
Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionarypatthanā : (f.) aiming at; aspiration; desire. || paṭṭhāna (nt.) setting forth; putting forward; starting point.
Source: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English DictionaryPatthanā, (f.) (of ap+arth, cp. Sk. prārthayati & prārthana nt. , prārthanā f. ) aiming at, wish, desire, request, aspiration, prayer S. II, 99, 154; A. I, 224; III, 47; V, 212; Nd1 316, 337 (p. vuccati taṇhā); Nd2 112; Nett 18, 27; Dhs. 1059; Miln. 3; SnA 47, 50; DhA. II, 36; PvA. 47.—patthanaṃ karoti to make a wish J. I, 68; DhA. I, 48; °ṃ ṭhapeti id. DhA. I, 47; II, 83; IV, 200. (Page 407)
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Paṭṭhāna, (nt.) (fr. pa+ sthā, cp. paṭṭhahati) setting forth, putting forward; only in cpd. sati° setting up of mindfulness (q. v. and see discussion of term at Dial II. 324). Besides in later lit. meaning “origin, ” starting point, cause, in title of the 7th book of the Abhidhamma, also called Mahāpakaraṇa. See Ledi, J. P. T. S. 1915—16, p. 26; Mrs. Rh. D. , Tika p. 1, vi.—At Sdhp. 321 it has the Sk. meaning of “setting out” (?). (Page 402)
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Paṭṭhāna, (nt.) (fr. pa+ sthā, cp. paṭṭhahati) setting forth, putting forward; only in cpd. sati° setting up of mindfulness (q. v. and see discussion of term at Dial II. 324). Besides in later lit. meaning “origin, ” starting point, cause, in title of the 7th book of the Abhidhamma, also called Mahāpakaraṇa. See Ledi, J. P. T. S. 1915—16, p. 26; Mrs. Rh. D. , Tika p. 1, vi.—At Sdhp. 321 it has the Sk. meaning of “setting out” (?). (Page 402)
Source: Sutta: Pali Word Grammar from Pali Myanmar Dictionary1) patthana (ပတ္ထန) [(na,thī) (န၊ထီ)]—
[pa+attha+yu．pattha+yu．patthanā paṇidhānañca,purise paṇidhīrito．．426．tikaṃ patthanāmatte．attha yācanāyaṃ,yu,patthanā,atthanāpi．,ṭī．426．aho iti garahapasaṃ-sanapatthanesu ca．rū．nhā-135．pasaṃsane aho acchariyo jino．patthane aho vatāyaṃ pabbajeyya．rū,ṭī．nhā-84．attha pattha yācanāyaṃ．attheti,attha-yati．attho．pattheti,patthayati．patthanā．nīti,dhā．311．,yācaneç hiṃsane ca (na)．thoma．(patthaṇaç patthaṇā-prā)]
[ပ+အတ္ထ+ယု။ ပတ္ထ+ယု။ ပတ္ထနာ ပဏိဓာနဉ္စ၊ ပုရိသေ ပဏိဓီရိတော။ ဓာန်။၄၂၆။ တိကံ ပတ္ထနာမတ္တေ။ အတ္ထ ယာစနာယံ၊ယု၊ ပတ္ထနာ၊ အတ္ထနာပိ။ ဓာန်၊ဋီ။၄၂၆။ အဟော ဣတိ ဂရဟပသံ-သနပတ္ထနေသု စ။ ရူ။နှာ-၁၃၅။ ပသံသနေ အဟော အစ္ဆရိယော ဇိနော။ ပတ္ထနေ အဟော ဝတာယံ ပဗ္ဗဇေယျ။ ရူ၊ဋီ။နှာ-၈၄။ အတ္ထ ပတ္ထ ယာစနာယံ။ အတ္ထေတိ၊ အတ္ထ-ယတိ။ အတ္ထော။ ပတ္ထေတိ၊ ပတ္ထယတိ။ ပတ္ထနာ။ နီတိ၊ဓာ။၃၁၁။ လျုဋ်၊ ယာစနေ,ဟိံသနေ စ (န)။ ထောမ။ (ပတ္ထဏ,ပတ္ထဏာ-ပြာ)]
2) paṭṭhāna (ပဋ္ဌာန) [(na) (န)]—
[pa+ṭhā+yu．ṭhā gatinivattiyaṃ．．．．saṇṭhānaṃ,paṭṭhānaṃ．nīti,dhā．55．]
[ပ+ဌာ+ယု။ ဌာ ဂတိနိဝတ္တိယံ။．．．သဏ္ဌာနံ၊ ပဋ္ဌာနံ။ နီတိ၊ ဓာ။ ၅၅။]
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.
Prakrit-English dictionary
Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary1) Paṭṭhāṇa (पट्ठाण) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Prasthāna.
2) Patthaṇa (पत्थण) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Prārthana.
3) Patthaṇā (पत्थणा) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Prārthanā.
Patthaṇā has the following synonyms: Patthaṇayā.
4) Patthāṇa (पत्थाण) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Prasthāna.
Prakrit is an ancient language closely associated with both Pali and Sanskrit. Jain literature is often composed in this language or sub-dialects, such as the Agamas and their commentaries which are written in Ardhamagadhi and Maharashtri Prakrit. The earliest extant texts can be dated to as early as the 4th century BCE although core portions might be older.
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