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1127 (=yath! !cikkhitabba' tath! !cikkhi Nd2 527); Th 1, 708 (di&&he dhamme yath!tathe: is reading
correct? perhaps better as yath!tath!, cp. trsln Brethren 292: "the truths are seen e'en as they really are");
Dpvs iii.2 (so read for yath! -- katha'; v. l. has ˚tatha'); v.64 (pañha' by!karohi yath!tatha'). -- dhamma
(used as adj. & adv. ˚') "one according to the law," i. e. as the rule prescribes; nt. according to the rule put
down. See Vin. Texts i.203; Geiger, Dhamma, p. 19, 67. Vin i.135 (yo uddiseyya, yath! -- dhammo
k!retabbo), 168 (yo pav!reyya, y. -- dhammo k!retabbo), 191 (yo m!reyya y. -- dh. k.); ii.67 (ubho pi
yath!dhamma' k!r!petabb!), 132 (yo ajjhohareyya, y. -- dhammo k!retabbo); iv.126 (yo j!na' (i. e.
knowing) yath!dhamma' nihat' âdhikara*a' punakamm!ya ukko&eyya, p!cittiyan ti i. e. a dispute settled in
proper form; with expln: y. -- dhamma' n!ma dhammena vinayena satthu s!sanena kata'), 144 (na tassa . .
. mutti atthi yañ ca tattha !patti' !panno tañ ca yath!dhammo k!retabbo, uttari c' assa moho !ropetabbo).
Cp. the foll. passages; as adj.: Vin i.205; ii.132, 142, 263; M iii.10; Miln 195; as adv.: with pa&ikaroti (to
atone, make amends) Vin i.173, 315; ii.126; iv.19; D i.85; iii.55; M iii.247; S ii.128, 205; A i.103, 238;
ii.146; iv.377; cp. yath!dhamma' pa&iga*h!ti S i.239; A i.59, 103. At S iii.171 yath!dhamma' is used in
the sense of "according to the truth, or reality," where yath! -- bh(ta' takes its place; similarly at Th 1, 188.
-- dhota as if it were washed (so to speak), clean, unsoiled DhA i.196; cp. MVastu i.301 yath! -- dhauta. --
pas!dhana' according to a clear state of mind, to one's gratification Dh 249 (= attano pas!d' ânur(pa' DhA
iii.359). -- puggala' according to the individual, individually Pv iii.51 (read yath!pu˚). -- p(rita as full as
could be, quite full J i.101. -- ph!suka comfortable, pleasant DhA i.8. -- bala' according to one's power or
means DhA i.107 (v. l. ˚satti); Sdhp 97; Mhvs 5, 180. -- bu..ha see ˚vu..ha. -- bhata' is an unexpld a(/pac
legome/non, difficult of analysis because occurring in only one ster. phrase, viz. yath! bhata' nikkhitto
eva' niraye (& sagge) at M i.71; S iv.325 (where T. has yath!hata', v. l. bhata'); A i.8, 105, 292, 297;
ii.71, 83; It 12, 14, 26. We have analyzed it as y. bhata' in Corr. to pt. 3; vol. ii.100 ("according to his
upbringing"), but we should rather deviate from this expln because the P. usage in this case would prefer
the nom. instead of the (adv.) acc. nt. It remains doubtful whether we should separate yath! or yath'
!bhata'. Suggestions of a trsln are the foll. (1) "as soon as brought or taken" (see Dict. s. v. !bhata); (2) "as
one has brought" (merit or demerit); thus taking !bhata' as irregular ger. of !+bhar, trsln suggested by the
reading !haritv! (yathâharitv!) in the complementary stanzas at It 12 & 14; (3) "according to merit or
reward," after Kern's suggestion, Toev. s. v. to read yath! bha&a', the difficulty being that bha&a is nowhere
found as v. l. of bhata in this phrase; nor that bha&a occurs in the meaning of "reward." -- There is a strong
likelihood of (!)bhata resembling !hata (!ha&a?) in meaning "as brought," on account of, cp. It context and
reading at S iv.325; still the phrase remains not sufficiently cleared up. -- Seidenst(cker's trsln has been
referred to above (under haritv!) as unbefitting. -- The suspicion of yath!bhata' being a veiled (corrupted)
yath!bh(ta' has presented itself to us before (see vol. I. under !bhata). The meaning may suggest
something like the latter, in as far as "in truth," "surely" is not far off the point. Anyhow we shall have to
settle on a meaning like "according to merit," without being able to elucidate the phrase in all its details. --
There is another yath!bhata' in passage . . . ussavo hoti, yath!bhata' lasu*a' parikkhaya' agam!si "the
garlic diminished as soon as it was brought" Vin iv.258. Here !bhata stands in rel. to har!peti (to have it
fetched & brought) and is clearly pp. of !bharati. -- bhucca as is the case, i. e. as one might expect, evident,
real, in conformity with the truth D i.12; ii.222; Miln 183, 351; Th 2, 159 (=yath!bh(ta' ThA 142); PvA
30, 31 (˚gu*!). -- bhutta see bhutta. -- bh(ta(') in reality, in truth, really, definitely, absolutely; as ought to
be, truthfully, in its real essence. Very freq. in var. combnns which see collected & classified as regards
Sa'yutta & Anguttara -- Nik!yas in Index vols to these texts. E. g. S iv.195 (vacana', Ep. of Nibb!na);
v.440 (abhisamaya); Sn 194, 202, 653; Dh 203; PvA 215 (gu*a). yath!bh(ta' paj!n!ti he knows as an
absolute truth or in reality D i.83, 162; S iv.188; v.304 & passim; ditto yath!bh(ta' j!n!ti passati Ps ii.62.
Similarly with noun: yath!bh(ta -- ñ!*a absolute knowledge S v.144; Ps ii.63= Vism 605
(+samm!dassana); Vism 438, 629, 695; VbhA 459 (=maggañ!*a); also as ˚ñ!*a -- dassana in same
meaning: A
-- 550 --
iii.19, 200; iv.99, 336; v.2 sq., 311 sq.; Ps i.33, 43 sq.; ii.11 sq.; Nett 29. -- mano according to (his) mind Sn
829; Nd1 170 (expld as nom.=yath!citto, yath!sankappo, yath!viññ!*o). -- ruci' according to pleasure or
liking Mhvs 4, 43 (ruci T.; ruci' v. l.; thus generally in Mhvs.); 5, 230 (˚ruci); 22, 58 (˚ruci). -- v!din as
speaking, as he speaks (followed by tath! -- k!rin so doing) D ii.224, 229; Sn 357; It 122. -- vidhi(') duly,
fitly Mhvs 10, 79. -- vihita as appointed or arranged Mhvs 10, 93. -- vu..ha' according to seniority Vin