Uddhacca: 8 definitions

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Uddhacca means something in Buddhism, Pali. 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)

N (Wandering of the mind). The fact to be distracted by thoughts. To have an agitated, scattered and airy spirit.

Source: Dhamma Dana: Pali English Glossary

Part of the Moha Team.

Upset;

Uddhacca is a close friend to moha and it also works together with ahirika and anotappa. Uddhacca is_ restlessness. It spreads and disperses and wanders around. It is said to be like throwing of a stone into a heap of ash. In its presence, citta becomes restless and upset. These 4 akusala cetasikas always arise in all akusala citta. So they are called sabbaakusalasadharana cetasikas.

Source: Journey to Nibbana: Patthana Dhama

Uddhacca, translated as restlessness, agitation, excitement or confusion, is another akusala cetasika which arises with each akusala citta.

Source: Dhamma Study: Cetasikas

'restlessness', belongs to the 10 fetters (samyojana), and to the 5 hindrances (nīvarana).

It is one of those 4 mental factors inseparably associated with all unwholesome consciousness (akusala-sādhārana).

Cf. Tab. II.

Source: Pali Kanon: Manual of Buddhist Terms and Doctrines
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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).

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Languages of India and abroad

Pali-English dictionary

[«previous next»] — Uddhacca in Pali glossary

uddhacca : (nt.) distraction; flurry; haughtiness.

Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionary

Uddhacca, (nt.) (substantivised ger. of ud-dharati, ud + dhṛ, cp. uddhaṭa & uddhata. The BSk. auddhatya shows a strange distortion. BSk. uddhava seems to be also a substitute for uddhacca) over-balancing, agitation, excitement, distraction, flurry (see on meaning Dialogues I. 82; Dhs. trsln. 119; Cpd. 18, 45, 83). A. I, 256, 282; III, 375, 421, 449; IV, 87; V, 142, 145, 148; D. III, 234; S. V, 277 sq.; DhSA 260; SnA 492 (in sense of “haughtiness”? for Sn. 702 uṇṇata); Nd1 220, 501; Ps. I, 81, 83; II, 9, 97 sq.; 119, 142, 145, 169, 176; Pug. 18, 59; Dhs. 427, 429 (cittassa), 1159, 1229, 1426, 1482; Vbh. 168, 369, 372, 377; Vism. 137, 469 (= uddhata-bhāva); Sdhp. 459. Together with kukkucca “flurry or worry” u. is enumd. as the 4th of the 5th nīvaraṇa’s and as the 9th of the 10 saṃyojana’s (q. v.), e.g. at D. I, 71, 246; III, 49, 234, 269, 278; S. I, 99; A. I, 3; III, 16; V, 30; Nd2 379; Dhs. 1486. (Page 136)

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

uddhacca (ဥဒ္ဓစ္စ) [(na) (န)]—
[(1)uddhata+ṇya.hana=gatiyaṃ,uddhaṃ uddhaṃ hanati gacchatīti uddhato,to,hanassa dho,asarapadvittaṃ,cittaṃ,uddhatassa bhāvo uddhacca.,ṭī,169.(2) u+dhu=dhū+tya.tya pa dhūeiea uī apru,asadisadvelā.uddhaṃ dhunāti kampatīti uddhaccaṃ.uddhaṃ uddhaṃ dhūnanaṃ uddhaccaṃ.ka.638.nīti,sutta.1255,1265.(ddhatya-saṃ)]
[(၁)ဥဒ္ဓတ+ဏျ။ ဟန=ဂတိယံ၊ ဥဒ္ဓံ ဥဒ္ဓံ ဟနတိ ဂစ္ဆတီတိ ဥဒ္ဓတော၊ တော၊ ဟနဿ ဓော၊ အသရပဒွိတ္တံ၊ စိတ္တံ၊ ဥဒ္ဓတဿ ဘာဝေါ ဥဒ္ဓစ္စ။ ဓာန်၊ဋီ၊၁၆၉။ (၂) ဥ+ဓု=ဓူ+တျ။ တျ ပစ္စည်းကြောင့် ဓူဓာတ်၏ ဦကို အပြု၊ အသဒိသဒွေဘော်လာ။ ဥဒ္ဓံ ဓုနာတိ ကမ္ပတီတိ ဥဒ္ဓစ္စံ။ ဥဒ္ဓံ ဥဒ္ဓံ ဓူနနံ ဥဒ္ဓစ္စံ။ ကစ္စည်းသုတ်။ ၆၃၈။ နီတိ၊သုတ္တ။ ၁၂၅၅၊၁၂၆၅။ (ေဩာ်ဒ္ဓတျ-သံ)]

Source: Sutta: Pali Word Grammar from Pali Myanmar Dictionary
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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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