The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

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condition M i.45; p!tu˚ appearance Sn 560; vin!˚ difference Sn 588. (c) nouns & noun -- derivations: atta˚
individual state, life, character Sn 388 (=citta SnA 374); asara*a˚ state of not remembering DhA iii.121;
sama*a˚ condition of a recluse Sn 551. -- (d) forms of verbs: nibbatta˚ fact of being reborn DhA iii.121;
magg' !r()ha˚ the condition of having started on one's way VvA 64; baddha˚ that he was bound; suhita˚ that
they were well J iv.279. The translation can give either a full sentence with "that it was" etc. (VvA 64: "that
he had started on his way"), or a phrase like "the fact or state of," or use as an English abstract noun ending
in -- ness (atthika -- bh!va needfulness, eki˚ loneliness), -- ion ((na˚ depletion, p!tu˚ manifestation). -- hood
(atta˚ selfhood), or -- ship (sama*a˚ recluseship). Similarly in Com. style: sampayutta -- bh!vo (m.)
DhA iii.94, for *sampayuttatta' (abstr.); bh!ku&ikassa bh!vo=bhaku&iya' Vism 26; sovacassassa bh!vo=
sovacassat! KhA 148; mittassa bh.=metta' KhA 248. Here sometimes bhava for bh!va. -- 2. (in pregnant,
specifically Buddhistic sense) cultivation or production by thought, mental condition, esp. a set mental
condition (see der. bh!van!). Sometimes (restricted to Vin & J) in sense "thinking of someone," i. e.
affection, love, sentiment. -- (a) in combn khanti, di&&hi, ruci, bh!va at Vin ii.205; iii.93; iv.3, 4. -- (b) in
J!taka passages: J v.237; vi.293 (bh!va' karoti, with loc., to love). -- abh!va (late, only in C. style) not
being, absence, want PvA 25; abl. abh!vato through not being, in want of PvA 9, 17. -- sabh!va
(sva+bh!va) see sep.
Bh!van!
Bh!van! (f.) [fr. bh!veti, or fr. bh!va in meaning of bh!va 2, cp. Class. Sk. bh!van!] producing, dwelling
on something, putting one's thoughts to, application, developing by means of thought or meditation,
cultivation by mind, culture. -- See on term Dhs trsl 261 (=2 240); Expos. i.217 (=DhsA 163); Cpd. 207 n.
2. Cp. pari˚, vi˚, sam˚. -- Vin i.294 (indriya˚); D iii.219 (three: k!ya˚, citta˚, paññ!˚), 221, 225, 285,
291; S i.48; Dh 73, 301; J i.196 (mett!˚); iii.45 (id.); Nd1 143 (saññ!˚); Nett 91 (samatha -- vipassana');
Vbh 12, 16 sq., 199, 325; Vism 130 (kara*a, bh!van!, rakkha*a; here bh.=bringing out, keeping in
existence), 314 (karu*!˚), 317 (upekkh!˚); Miln 25 (˚' anuyuñjati); Sdhp 15, 216, 233, 451. -- ânuyoga
application to meditation Vbh 244, 249. -- !r!ma joy of or pleasure in self culture A ii.28. -- bala power to
increase the effect of meditation, power of self -- culture A i.52; D iii.213. -- maya accomplished by culture
practice; brought into existence by practice (of cultured thought), cp. Cpd. 207. D iii.218, 219; Nett 8; with
d!namaya & s"lamaya at It 19, 51; Vbh 135, 325. -- vidh!na arrangement of process of culture DhsA
168=Vism 122.
Bh!van"ya
Bh!van"ya (adj.) [grd. fr. bh!veti, but taken by Bdhgh as grd. formation fr. bh!van!] "being as ought to be,"
to be cultivated, to be respected, in a self -- composed state (cp. bh!vitatta) M i.33 (garu+; expld by Bdhgh
as "addh! 'yam !yasm! j!na' j!n!ti passa' passat" ti eva' sambh!van"yo" MA 156); S v.164; A iii.110;
Miln 373; PvA 9. See also under manobh!van"ya.
Bh!vita
Bh!vita [pp. of bh!veti] developed, made to become by means of thought, cultured, well-balanced A v.299
(citta' paritta' abh!vita'; opp. citta' appam!*a' subh!vita'); Sn 516, 558.
Bh!vitatta
Bh!vitatta1 (adj.) [bh!vita+attan] one whose attan (!tman) is bh!vita, i. e. well trained or composed. Attan
here=citta (as PvA 139), thus "self -- composed, well -- balanced" A iv.26; Sn 277, 322, 1049; Dh 106,
107; Nd2 142; Nd2 475 B (indriy!ni bh.); J ii.112 (˚bh!van!ya when the training of thought is perfect);
Vism 185 (˚bh!vana, adj. one of well -- trained character), 267, 400 (+bahul" -- kata); DhA i.122 (a˚); ThA
164 (indriya˚). See foll.