The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

one's own (reported) or as the definite contents of (one's own or other's) thoughts. On the whole
untranslatable (unless written as quotation marks), often only setting off a statement as emphatic, where we
would either underline the word or phrase in question, or print it in italics, or put it in quot. marks (e. g.
b!lo ti vuccati Dh 63 = b!lo vuccati). -- 1. in direct speech (as given by writer or narrator), e. g. s!dhu
bhante Kassapa l!bhata' es! janat! dassan!y! ti. Tena hi S"ha tva' yeva Bhagavato !roceh" ti. Eva' bhante
ti kho S"ho . . . . D i.151. -- 2. in indirect speech: (a) as statement of a fact "so it is that" (cp. E. "viz.", Ger.
"und zwar"), mostly untranslated Kh iv. (arah! ti pavuccati); J i.253 (tasm! pesanaka -- cor! t' eva
vuccanti); iii.51 (tayo sah!y! ahesu' makkato sig!lo uddo ti); PvA 112 (ankuro pañca -- saka&asatehi . . .
aññataro pi br!hma*o pañca -- saka&asateh" ti dve jan! sakata -- sahassehi . . . patipann!). -- (b) as statement
of a thought "like this", "I think", so, thus Sn 61 ("sango eso" iti ñatv! knowing "this is defilement"), 253
("neso maman" ti iti na' vijaññ!), 783 ("iti' han" ti), 1094 (eta' d"pa' an!para' Nibb!na' iti na' br(mi I
call this N.), 1130 (apar! p!ra' gaccheyya tasm! "Par!yana'" iti). -- III. Peculiarities of spelling. (1) in
combn. with other part. iti is elided & contracted as follows: icc' eva, t' eva, etc. -- (2) final a, i, u preceding
ti are lengthened to !, ", (, e. g. m! eva' akatth! ti DhA i.7; kati dhur!n" ti ibid; dve yeva dhur!ni bhikkh( ti
ibid. IV. Combinations with other emphatic particles: + eva thus indeed, in truth, really; as icc' eva Pv
i.119 (= evam eva PvA 59); t' eva J i.253; Miin 114; tv' eva J i.203; ii.2. -- iti kira thus now, perhaps, I
should say D i.228, 229, 240. -- iti kho thus, therefore D i.98, 103; iii.135. iti v! and so on (?), thus and
such (similar cases) Nd1 13 = Nd2 420 A1. -- iti ha thus surely, indeed Sn 934, 1084 (see below under
"tih"tiha'; cp. SnA Index 669: itiha? and itikir!); It 76; DA i.247, as iti ha' at Sn 783 (same expln. at Nd1
71 as for iti). -- kin ti how J ii.159. -- kir! (f.) [a substantivised iti kira] hearsay, lit. "so I guess" or "I have
heard" A i.189 = ii.191 sq. = Nd2 151. Cp. itiha. -- bhava becoming so & so (opp. abhava not becoming)
Vin ii.184 (˚abhava); D i.8 (ip = iti bhavo iti abhavo DA i.91); A ii.248; It 109 (id.); syn. with itthabhava
(q. v.). -- v!da "speaking so & so", talk, gossip M i.133; S v.73; A ii.26; It iii.35. -- vuttaka (nt.) [a noun
formation fr. iti vutta'] "so it has been said", (book of) quotations, "Logia", N. of the fourth book of the
Khuddaka -- nik!ya, named thus because every sutta begins with vutta' h' eta' Bhagavat! "thus has the
Buddha said" (see khuddaka and navanga) Vin iii.8; M i.133; A ii.7, 103; iii.86, 177, 361 sq.; Pug 43, 62;
KhA 12. Kern, Toev. s. v. compares the interesting BSk. distortion itiv%tta'. -- h!sa [= iti ha !sa, preserving
the Vedic form !sa, 3rd sg. perf. of atthi] "thus indeed it has been", legendary lore, oral tradition, history;
usually mentioned as a branch of brahmanic learning, in phrase itih!sa -- pañca -- m!na' padako
veyy!kara*o etc. D i.88 = (see DA i.247); A i.163; iii.223; Sn 447, 1020. Cp. also M Vastu i.556. -- h"tiha
[itiha + itiha] "so & so" talk, gossip, oral tradition, belief by hearsay etc. (cp. itikir! & an"tiha. Nd2 spells
"tih"tiha) M i.520; S i.154; Sn 1084; Nd2 151.
Ito
Ito (indecl.) [Vedic ita1, abl. -- adv. formation fr. pron. base *i, cp. iti, aya' etc.] adv. of succession or
motion in space & time "from here". "from now". (1) with ref. to space: (a) from here, from this, often
implying the present existence (in opp. to the "other" world) It 77; Sn 271 (˚ja. ˚nid!na caused or founded
in or by this existence = attabh!va' sandh!y' !ha SnA 303), 774 (cut!se), 870 (˚nid!na), 1062 (from this
source, i. e. from me), 1101; Pv i.57 (ito dinna' what is given in this world); i.62 (i. e. manussalokato PvA
33); i.123 (= idhalokato PvA 64); Nett 93 (ito bahiddh!); PvA 46 (ito dukkhato mutti). -- (b) here (with
implication of movement), in phrases ito c' ito here and there PvA 4, 6; and ito v! etto v! here & there DhA
ii.80. -- (2) with ref. to time: from here, from now, hence (in chronological records with num. ord. or card.,
with ref. either to past or future). (a) referring to the past, since D ii.2 (ito so ekanavuto kappo 91 kappas
ago); Sn 570 (ito a&&hame, scil. divase 8 days ago SnA 457; T. reads atthami); VvA 319 (ito kira ti'sa --
kappa -- sahasse); PvA 19 (dv! navuti kappe 92 kappas ago), 21 (id.), 78 (pañcam!ya j!tiy! in the fifth
previous re -- birth). -- (b) referring to the future, i. e. henceforth, in future, from now e. g. ito sattame
divase in a week VvA 138; ito para' further, after this SnA 160, 178, 412, 549; PvA 83; ito pa&th!ya from
now on, henceforward J i.63 (ito d!ni p.); PvA 41.
Ittara
Ittara (sometimes spelt itara) (adj.) [Vedic itvara in meaning "going", going along, hence developed
meaning "passing"; fr. i] -- 1. passing, changeable, short, temporary, brief, unstable M i.318 (opp.
d"gharatta'); A ii.187; J i.393; iii.83 (˚dassana = kha*ika˚ C.), iv.112 (˚v!sa temporary abode); Pv i.1111 (=