Yathava, Yāthāva, Yathāva: 2 definitions
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Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionaryyāthāva : (adj.) exact, definite.
Source: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English DictionaryYāthāva, (adj.) (see yathāva. It is a combination of a guṇader. fr. yathā and an adj. -der. of °vant) sufficient (lit. “just as much”; i.e. such as it is), sufficiently founded, logical, consistent, exact, definite, true Nd2 275 (where tatha is explained by taccha, bhūta, yāthāva, aviparīta); DhsA. 248 (where micchā-diṭṭhi is explained as incorrect or illogical view.—yāthāvato (Abl.) exactly, truly, consistently DA. I, 65; ThA. 256; VvA. 232. See also yathāvato.—The nearest synonyms of yāthāva are aviparīta (i.e. definite) and yathābhūtaṃ. See also yathāva and yathāvaka.
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Yathāva, (adj.) (der. fr. yathā, as yathā+vant, after analogy of yāvant, but following the a-decl. cp. Epic Sk. yathāvat) having the character of being in accordance with (the truth or the occasion), real, true, just It. 44 (santaṃ paṇītaṃ yathāvaṃ, nt.); Th. 1, 188, 422 (°āloka-dassana seeing the real light); Miln. 171 (°lakkhaṇa true characteristics); Vism. 588 (as yāthāvasarasa), 639 (id.).—Abl. yathāvato (also found as yāthāvato, probably more correctly, being felt as a der. fr. yathā) according to fitness, fitfully, duly, truly, sufficiently PvA. 60 (so read for yathā vato), 128 (all MSS. yāthāvato!); ThA. 256 (yā°; the explanation given by Morris, J. P. T. S. 1889, 208 is not correct). (Page 550)
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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Starts with (+20): Yatavan, Yatavar, Yathavabhritham, Yathavacanakarin, Yathavacanam, Yathavacas, Yathavadanam, Yathavadbhavikata, Yathavadgrahana, Yathavadin, Yathavaditathakari, Yathavajjam, Yathavaka, Yathavakasha, Yathavakasham, Yathavalakkhana, Yathavamana, Yathavanama, Yathavaniktam, Yathavarnam.
Full-text: Ayathavata, Yathavanama, Yathavamana, Yathavasarasa, Yathavavacana, Yathavaka, Yathavalakkhana, Viparita, Ti Lakkhana.
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