The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

Yanta
Yanta (nt.) [Vedic yantra, a kind of n. ag. formation fr. yam to hold by means of a string or bridle, etc. Idg.
*em & *i!em, as in Lat. emo to take & red -- imio.] a means for holding, contrivance, artifice, instrument,
machine, mechanism; fig. instrumentality (as perhaps in, kamma˚ at Th passages). -- Referring to the
machinery (outfit) of a ship (as oars, helm, etc.) J iv.163 (sabbayant' ûpapanna=piy' -- âritt! etc. C.); Miln
379. To mechanism in general (mechanical force) J v.333 (˚vegena=with the swiftness of machinery). To a
sugar -- mill Miln 166; usually as ucchu -- yanta J i.25, 339 (˚yante ga*&hik!), cp. ucch(na' yanta DhA
iv.199. -- tela -- yanta ( -- cakka) (the wheel of) an oil mill J i.25. -- d!ru -- yanta a wooden machine (i. e. a
mechanical man with hands & feet moved by pulling of strings) DA i.197; Vism 595 (quoted as simile). --
kamma -- yanta the machinery of Kamma Th 1, 419 (i. e. its instrumentality, not, as trsln "car"; cp.
Brethren 217: "it breaks in pieces K's living car," evidently influenced by C. expln "attabh!va -- yanta"),
574 (similarly: see discussed under yantita). Note. yant!ni at Nd2 529 (on Sn 48 sangha&&a -- yant!m) is
expld as "dhuvar!ni." The spelling & meaning of the latter is not clear. It must refer to bracelets. Cp.
SnA 96 valay!ni. -- !ka..hana pulling the machine Vism 258=VbhA 241. -- cakkha -- ya&&hi the stick of
the wheel of a (sugar -- ) mill VbhA 60. -- n!)i a mechanical tube DhA iii.215. -- p!s!*a an aerolite (?) J
iii.258 (read ˚p!s!*o). -- phalak!ni the boards of a machine Vism 258. -- yutta combined by machinery J
vi.432. -- sutta the string of a machine (or mill). Vism 258 (as ˚ka)=VbhA 241. -- hatthi a mechanical
(automatic) elephant DhA i.192 (of King Ca*.a -- pajjota; cp. the horse of Troy).
Yantaka
Yantaka (nt.) [fr. yanta] a bolt Vin ii.148 (vih!r! agutt! honti . . . anuj!n!mi yantaka' s(cikan ti), cp. Vin.
Texts iii.162; DA i.200 (kuñcik!+); DhA i.220 (yantaka' deti to put the bolt to, to lock up).
Yanti
Yanti is 3rd pl. pres. of y!: see y!ti. -- Note. At D ii.269 we should combine yanti with preceding visam! &
samb!dh!, thus forming denom. verbs: visam!yanti "become uneven" and samb!dh!yanti "become
oppressed or tight." The trsln Dial ii.305 gives just the opposite by reading incorrectly.
Yantita
Yantita [pp. of yanteti] made to go, set into motion, im- pelled Th 1, 574: evâya' vattati k!yo kamma --
yantena yantito "impelled by the machinery of Karma"; trsln Brethren 261 not quite to the point "carried
about on Karma's car." Kern, Toev. s, v. quite out of place with "fettered, held, restrained," in analogy to
his trsln of yanta id. loc. with "fetter." He may have been misled by Dhtm defn of yant as "sankocana" (see
yanteti).
Yanteti
Yanteti [denom. fr. yanta. Dhtm 809 gives a root yant in meaning of "sankocane," i. e. contraction] to set
into motion, to make go, impel, hurl J i.418 (sakkhara' anguliy! yantetv!); pp. yantita.
Yann(na
Yann(na see ya˚ 2˚.
Yapana
Yapana see y!pana.