masculine
Addhan (in compounds addha°) [Vedic adhvan, originally meaning "stretch, length", both of space and time. — Cases: nominative addhā, genitive dative addhuno, instrumental addhunā, accusative addhānaṃ, locative addhani; plural addhā. See also addhāna 1. (of space) a path, road, also journey (see compounds and derivations); only in one stereotypical phrase Ja IV 384 = V 137 (pathaddhuno paṇṇarase va cando, genitive for locative °addhani, on his course, in his orbit; explained at IV 384 by ākāsa-patha-saṅkhātassa addhuno majjhe ṭhito and at V 137 by pathaddhagato addha-pathe gaganamajjhe ṭhito); Pv III 3 1 (pathaddhani paṇṇarase va cando; locative same meaning as preceding, explained at Pv-a 188 by attano pathabhūte addhani gaganatala-magge). This phrase (pathaddhan) however is explained by Kern ( Toev. sub voce pathaddu) as "gone half-way", i.e. on full-moon-day. He rejects the explanation of commentary. 2. (of time) a stretch of time, an interval of time, a period, also a lifetime (see compounds); only in two standard applications viz.(a) as mode of time (past, future and present) in tayo addhā three divisions of time (atita, anāgata, paccuppanna) D III 216; It 53, 70.(b) in phrase dīghaṃ addhānaṃ (accusative) a very long time A II 1, 10 (dighaṃ addhānaṃ saṃsāraṃ); Snp 740 (dīghaṃ addhāna saṃsāra); Dhp 207 (dīghaṃ addhāna socati); Ja I 137. genitive dīghassa addhuno Pv-a 148 (gatattā because a long time has elapsed), instrumental dīghena addhunā S I 78; A II 118; Pv-a 28. -āyu duration of life A II 66 (dīghaṃ °ṃ a long lifetime; -gata one who has gone the road or traversed the space or span of life, an old man [cf. BHS adhvagata Mvu II 150], always combined with vayo anuppatto, sometimes in stereotypical formula with jiṇṇa and mahallaka. {24} Vin II 188; D I 48 (cf. Sv I 143); M I 82; Snp past participle 50, 92; Pv-a 149; -gū [Vedic adhvaga] a wayfarer, traveller, journeyman Thig 255 = S I 212 (but the latter has panthagu, v.l. addhagū); Ja III 95 (v.l. patthagu = panthagu); Dhp 302.
a path, road; a journey; time