Yebhuyya: 2 definitions

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Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionary

yebhuyya : (adj.) numerous; most; abundant.

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

Yebhuyya, (adj.) (ye=yad in Māgadhī form; thus yad bhūya=yad bhiyya “what is more or most(ly)”) abundant, numerous, most. Not found as adj. by itself, except in phrase yebhuyya-vasena mostly, as a rule ThA. 51 and PvA. 136, which is identical with the usual Instr. yebhuyyena occurring as adv. “as according to most, ” i.e. (1) almost all, altogether, practically (as in our phrase “practically dead”), mostly D. I, 105 (addasā dvattiṃsa lakkhanāṇi y. ṭhapetvā dve: all except two)=109; Vin. III, 29 sq.; J. I, 246 (gāmako y. andha-bāla-manussehi yeva ussanno the village was peopled by mostly foolish folk); V, 335 (y. asīti-mahātherā, altogether).—(2) as it happens (or happened), usually, occasionally, as a rule, ordinarily D. I, 17 (saṃvaṭṭamāne loke y. (as a rule) sattā Ābhassarasaṃvaṭṭanikā honti; explained by half allegorical, half popular etym. at DA. I, 110 as follows: “ye upari Brahma-lokesu vā Āruppesu vā nibbattanti, tadavasese sandhāya vuttaṃ”); D. II, 139: yebhuyyena dasasu loka-dhātusu devatā sannipatitā (as a rule); Sn. p. 107 (=bahukāni SnA 451); Miln. 6 (y. Himavantam eva gacchanti: usually); DA. I, 280 (ordinarily); VvA. 234 (occasionally), 246 (pihita-dvāram eva hoti: usually); PvA. 2 (Sattari tattha tattha viharante y. tāya tāya atth’uppattiyā), 46 (tassā kesa-sobhaṃ disvā taruṇa-janā y. tattha paṭibaddha-cittā adesuṃ invariably).—na yebhuyyena not as a rule, usually not (at all): nâpi y. ruditena kāci attha-siddhi PvA. 63. (Page 557)

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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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