The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

vip!ka having what or which kind of fruit D ii.209. ya' v! . . . ya' v! whether . . . or S ii.179; ya' no . . . na
tv' eva neither . . . nor S ii.179 -- 180. -- ya' with pot.: "so that," that (corresp. to Lat. ut consecutivum) S
iii.41 (ya' r(pe anatt' ânupass" vihareyya). J v.339 (n' esa dhammo ya' ta' jahe that I should leave you). --
In the function of other conjunctions e. g. as temporal= when, since, after: J iv.319 (ya' ma' Suruci -- m --
!nayi that, or since, S. married me). As conditional or causal =if, even if, because: Vin i.276 (ya' te sakk! .
. . aroga' k!tu', ta' karohi if it is possible . . . do it; or may be taken in sense of "in whatever way you can
do it, do"); J iii.206=iv.4 (ya' me sirasmi' (hacca cakka' bhamati matthake= because; C.: yena p!pena). --
(c) as adv. deictive "so," in combn with var. other (emphatic) particles as e. g. ya' n(na used in an
exhortative sense "well, now"; or "rather, let me"; or "so now," always in phrase ya' n(n' âha' "now then
let me" (do this or that) very freq., either with foll. pot., e. g. "y. n. âha' arañña' paviseyya'" DhA ii.91. "y.
n. â. katakamma' puccheyya'" VvA 132; dasseyya' VvA 138; pabbajjeyya' M ii.55; !neyya' DhA i.46,
vihareyya' ibid. 56; etc. cp. J i.14, 150, 255; iii.393; DhA i.91; PvA 5 (avassayo bhaveyya'). -- Similarly
yañ hi "well then, now then" (with Pot.) S ii.210, 221 (ta' vadeyya). Cp. yagghe. yañ ca & yañ ce [Sk. yac
ca, or cet, ca here=ce see ca. & cp. sace=sa+ce] (rather) than that: yañ ca Th 2, 80; J i.210; yañce (with
Pot.) S i.176; It 43; Th 1, 666. sang!me me mata' seyyo yañ ce j"ve par!jito (than that I live vanquished)
Sn 440 (cp. the intricate expln at SnA 390); similarly J iv.495: me mara*a' seyyo yañ ce j"ve tay! vin!. --
(b) nt. yad: (a) as pron in regular relative use e. g. S iii.44 (yad anicca' ta' dukkha'); It 59 (yad eva di&&ha'
tad ev' âha' vad!mi). (b) as adv., e. g. yad -- agge (loc.) from what on, i. e. from which time, since what
time D i.152 (=m(ladivasato pa&&h!ya ya' divasa' agga' patv! DA i.311); Vv 8433 (=yato pa&&h!ya VvA
344). Also as yad -- aggena (instr.) Vin ii.257 (y. Mah!paj!pati -- gotamiy! a&&ha garudhamm! pa&iggahit!
tad eva s! upasampann!); VbhA 387. -- yad -- attha' for what, why Th 2, 163. yad -- atthiya as much as
necessary, as required, sufficient, proper Th 1, 12; 1274 ("which, for the goal desirous, he led" trsl.; refers
to brahmacariya'). The same verse occurs at Sn 354. The latter passage is mentioned in P.D. under atthiya
with meaning "on account of what" (cp. kim -- atthiya' S iii.189). The Sn passage is not expld in SnA. --
yad -- icchaka' whatever is pleasant, i. e. according to liking, as he pleases A iii.28; Pug 11, 12; J i.141 (y.
bhutta eaten heartily); Vism 154 (+yavadicchaka); VvA 341. Cp. yen' icchaka' below II. 5. -- yad -- icchita
see under yath! -- icchita! -- yadida': see below II. 4 b. 3. Generalizing (or distributive) use of ya: There
are two modes of generalization, viz. (a) by repeating ya˚: yassa yass' eva s!lassa m(le ti&&hasi, so so
muñcati pupph!ni; "at the foot of whichever tree you stand, he (in all cases concerned) sheds flowers" Vv
393; ya' ya' hi manaso piya' "whatever is pleasant to the senses" Pv ii.118; ya' ya' passati ta' ta'
pucchati "whomsoever he sees, him he asks" J iii.155; yassa' yassa' dis!ya' viharati, sakasmi' yeva vijite
viharati" in whichever region he lives, he lives in his own realm" A iii.151; yo yo ya' ya' icchati tassa
tassa ad!si "whatever anybody wished he gave to him" PvA 113; ya' ya' padesa' bhajati tattha tatth' eva
assa l!bhasakk!ro nibbattati "whichever region he visits, there (in each) will he have success" DhA ii.82. --
(b) by combination with ko -- ci (cp. the identical Lat. qui -- cun -- que): yassa kassaci r!go pah"no aya'
vuccati . . . "the lust of whosoever is abandoned he is called so & so" It 56. y!ni k!nici vatth(ni . . . sabb!ni
t!ni . . . It 19; ye keci !rabbha "with ref. to whosoever" PvA 17; ya' kiñci whatever Pv i.41. 4. Dependent
& elliptic use of ya (with pron. demonstr.). This represents a sort of deictic (emphatic) use, with ref. to
what is coming next or what forms the necessary compliment to what is just being said. Thus it introduces a
general truth or definition, as we would say "just this, namely, i. e.," or Ger. "so wie, und zwar." -- (a) The
usual combns are those of ya+sa (nt. ta') and of ya+aya' (nt. ida'), but such with amu (nt. adu') also
occur: ya' adu' khetta' agga' evam eva mayha' bhikkhu -- bhikkhuniyo "as there is one field which is the
best, thus to me the bh. & bhikkhun"s" S iv.315. Cp. the foll.: ya+sa e. g. at M. i.366 (yo so puriso
pa&hama' rukkha' !r()ho sace so na khippam eva oroheyya "just that man, who climbed up the tree first, if
he does not come down very quickly"); J ii.159 (yena tena up!yena with every possible means); Pv i.91 (y!
t! [so read for y! ca!] "just she over there; who as such, i. e. such as she is"); cp. also the foll.: y! s! s"m! . .
. ta' s"ma' Vin i.109; ye te dhamm! !dikaly!*! etc. . . . s!ttha' brahmacariya' abhivadanti tath! r(p! 'ssa
dhamm! honti . . . M iii.11; y!ni et!ni y!n!ni (just) these DhA iv.6. -- ya+aya' e. g. at M i.258 (yv' !ya'
vado vedeyyo tatra tatra . . . vip!ka' pa&isa'vedeti); It 35=93 (nibb!penti moh'aggi' paññ!ya y! 'ya'
nibbedha -- g!min": "as it is also penetrating, which as such, or in this quality, or as we know, is
penetrating"); Vin iv.134 (ye 'me antar!yik! dhamm! vutt! . . . te pa&isevato n' âla' antar!y!ya "just those
which, or whichever"). Th 1, 124 (panko ti hi na' avedayu' yâya' vandanap(jan!; here=y! aya'); Dh 56
(appamatto aya' gandho yâya' tagara -- candan"; here=yo aya'); M ii.220 (ya' ida' kamma' . . . ta'). --
(b) nt. yadida' lit. "as that," which is this (i. e. the following), may be translated by "viz.," that is, "i. e." in
other words, so to speak, just this, "I mean"; e. g. k!m!na' eta' nissara*a' yad ida' nekkhamma' "there is
an escape from the lusts, viz. lustlessness"; or: "this is the abandoning of lusts, in other words lustlessness"