The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

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born, grown (or was born, grew); become; occurred, happened Sn 683 (Bodhisatto hitasukhat!ya j!to);
bhaya' j!ta' (arose) Sn 207; viv!d! j!t! Sn 828; ekadivase j. (were born on the same day) J iii.391;
aph!suka' j!ta' (has occurred J i.291. -- So in loc. abs. j!te (j!tamhi) "when . . . has arisen, when there is . .
.," e. g. atthamhi Vin i.350=M iii.154=Dh 331; v!damhi Sn 832; oghe Sn 1092; kah!pa*esu j!tesu J i.121. -
- 3. ˚j!ta (nt.) characteristic; pada˚ pedal character S i.86; anga˚ the sexual organ Vin i.191; as adj. having
become . . . (=bh(ta); being like or behaving as, of the kind of . . ., sometimes to be rendered by an adj. or a
pp. implied in the noun: cu**akaj!t!ni a&&hik!ni (= cu**ayit!ni) M iii.92; j!lakaj!ta in bud A iv.117;
chandaj!ta=chandika Sn 767; suj!ta Sn 548 (well -- born, i. e. auspicious, blessed, happy); p"tisomanassa˚
joyful & glad Sn p. 94; J i.60, etc.; gandhaj!ta a kind of perfume (see gandha). Often untranslatable:
l!bhappatto j!to J iii.126; vin!sa -- ppaccayo j!to J i.256. -- 4. a J!taka or Buddhist birth story DhA i.34. --
!ma*.a the (wild) castor oil plant VvA 10; -- ovaraka the inner chamber where he was born VvA 158; J
i.391 (so read for j!to varake). -- kamma the (soothsaying) ceremony connected w. birth, in ˚' karoti to set
the horoscope PvA 198 (=nakkhatta -- yoga' ugga*h!ti); -- divasa the day of birth, birthday J iii.391; iv.38;
-- mangala birth festival, i. e. the feast held on the birth of a child DhA ii.86; -- r(pa "sterling," pure metal,
i. e. gold (in its natural state, before worked, cp. jambonada). In its relation to suva**a (worked gold) it is
stated to be suva**ava**o (i. e. the brightcoloured metal: VvA 9; DhA iv.32: suva**o j!tar(po); at DA i.78
it is expld by suva**a only & at Vin iii.238 it is said to be the colour of the Buddha: j. Satthu -- va**a. At
A i.253 it is represented as the material for the suva**ak!ra (the "white" -- smith as opp. to "black" --
smith). -- Combd w. hirañña Pv ii.75; very freq. w. rajata (silver), in the prohibition of accepting gold &
silver (D i.5)# as well as in other connections, e. g. Vin i.245; ii.294 sq.; S i.71, 95; iv.326 (the moral
dangers of "money": yassa j!tar(pa -- rajata' kappati pañca pi tassa k!magu*! kappanti); v.353, 407; Dhs
617. -- Other passages illustr. the use & valuation of j. are S ii.234 (˚parip(ra); v.92 (upakkiles!); A i.210
(id.); iii.16 (id.); -- S i.93, 117; M i.38; A i.215; iii.38; iv.199, 281; v.290; J ii.296; iv.102; -- veda [cp.
Vedic j!taveda=Agni] fire S i.168; Sn 462 (ka&&h! j!yati j.) Ud 93; J i.214; ii.326= iv.471; v.326; vi.204,
578; Vism 171; DA i.226; DhA i.44 (nirindhana, without fuel); -- ssara a natural pond or lake Vin i.111; J
i.470; ii.57.
J!taka
J!taka1 (nt.) [j!ta+ka, belonging to, connected with what has happened] 1. a birth story as found in the
earlier books. This is always the story of a previous birth of the Buddha as a wise man of old. In this sense
it occurs as the name of one of the 9 categories or varieties of literary composition (M i.133; A ii.7, 103,
108; Vin iii.8; Pug 43. See navanga). -- 2. the story of any previous birth of the Buddha, esp. as an animal.
In this sense the word is not found in the 4 Nik!yas, but it occurs on the Bharhut Tope (say, end of 3rd cent.
b.c.), and is frequent in the J!taka book. 3. the name of a book in the P!li canon, containing the verses
of 547 such stories. The text of this book has not yet been edited. See Rh. Davids' Buddhist India, 189 --
209, and Buddh. Birth Stories, introd., for history of the J!taka literature. -- j!taka' ni&&hapeti to wind up a
J!taka tale J vi.363; j!taka' samodh!neti to apply a J!taka to the incident J i.106; DhA i.82. Note. The
form j!ta in the sense of j!taka occurs at DhA i.34. -- atthava**an! the commentary on the J!taka book, ed.
by V. Fausböll, 6 vols. with Index vol. by D. Andersen, London, 1877 sq.; -- bh!*aka a repeater of the J.
book Miln 341.
J!taka
J!taka2 (m.) [j!ta+ka, belonging to what has been born] a son J i.239; iv.138.
J!tatta
J!tatta (nt.) [abstr. fr. j!ta] the fact of being born or of having grown or arisen Vism 250; DhA i.241.
J!ti