oGa · masculine · ogha 1
flood
Ogha [Vedic ogha and augha; BHS ogha, e.g. Divy 95 caturogh'ottīrṇa, Jm 215 mahaugha. Etymology uncertain]. 1. (rare in the old texts) a flood of water Vv-a 48 (udak'ogha); usually as mahogha a great flood Dhp 47; Vism 512; Vv-a 110; Dhp-a II 274 = Thig-a 175. 2. (always in singular) the flood of ignorance and vain desires which sweep a man down, away from the security of emancipation. To him who has "crossed the flood", oghatiṇṇo, are ascribed all, or nearly all, the mental and moral qualifications of the Arahant. For details see Snp 173, 219, 471, 495, 1059, 1064, 1070, 1082; A II 200 f. Less often we have details of what the flood consists of. Thus {147} kāmogha the fl. of lusts A III 69 (cf. Dhs 1095, where o. is one of the many names of taṇhā, craving, thirst). In the popular old riddle at S I 3 and Thag 15, 633 (included also in Dhp. 370) the "flood" is 15 states of mind (the 5 bonds which impede a man on his entrance upon the Aryan Path, the 5 which impede him in his progress towards the end of the Path, and 5 other bonds: lust, ill-temper, stupidity, conceit, and vain speculation). Five Oghas referred to at S I 126 are possibly these last. Snp 945 says that the flood is gedha greed, and the avijjogha of Pp 21 may perhaps belong here. As means of crossing the flood we have the Path S I 193 (°assa nittharaṇatthaṃ); IV 257; V 59; It III (°assa nittharanatthāya); faith S I 214 = Snp 184 = Miln 36; mindfullness S V 168, 186; the island Dhp 25; and the dyke Thag 7 = Snp 4 (cf. D II 89). 3. Towards the close of the Nikāya period we find, for the first time, the use of the word in the plural, and the mention of 4 Oghas identical with the 4 āsavas (mental Intoxicants). See D III 230, 276; S IV 175, 257; V 59, 292, 309; Nidd I 57, 159; Nidd II §178. When the oghas had been thus grouped and classified in the livery, as it were, of a more popular simile, the older use of the word fell off, a tendency arose to think only of 4 oghas, and of these only as a name or phase of the 4 āsavas. So the Abhidhamma books (Dhs 1151; Vibh 25 f., 43, 65, 77, 129; Cpd 171). The Nett follows this (31, 114-24). Grouped in combination āsavagantha-ogha-yoga-agati-taṇhupādāna at Vism 211. The later history of the word has yet to be investigated. But it may be already stated that the fifth-century commentators persist in the error of explaining the old word ogha, used in the singular, as referring to the 4 āsavas; and they extend the old simile in other ways. Dhammapāla of Kāñcipura twice uses the word in the sense of flood of water (Vv-a 48, 110, see above 1). -ātiga one who has overcome the flood Snp 1096 (cf. Nidd II §180); -tiṇṇa the same S I 3, 142; Snp 178, 823, 1082, 1101, 1145; Dhp 370 (= cattāro oghe tiṇṇa Dhp-a IV 109); Vv 64 28 (= catunnaṃ oghānaṃ saṃsāra-mahoghassa taritattā o. Vv-a 284); 827; Nidd I 159; Nidd II §179. {165}
ogha , m. (= Pali id. ), flood (of evils, passions, or depravities, ‘crossing’ of which, tar- or ut-tar-, is necessary for salvation); usually four in number, presumably as in Pali = the 4 āsrava or yoga , qq.v. ( cf. Mvy 2141 āśravaḥ, 2142 oghaḥ): catur-ogha-pāra-gāmitābhiprāyasya (bodhisattvasya) LV 8.16 (read so with Tib. pha rol tu ḥgro baḥi bsam pa can , intending to go to the further shore … ; best ms. A °pāramitābhi°, Lefm. with others °pāragāminābhi°); LV 195.18 ( vs ) ogha catvāri tīrtvā; caturoghottīrṇānāṃ (Buddhānāṃ) Divy 95.15 ; Av i.16.11 ; sattvānāṃ caturoghottaraṇatāyai Gv 492.1 ; five or six ogha, Mv iii.283.18 ( vs ) pañcoghatīrṇo taratīha ṣaṣṭhaṃ (text ṣaṣṭaṃ; = Pali SN i.126.22 ; cf. Windisch, Māra und Buddha , 122 note 1 ; it is not clear what these are; for one not very plausible conjecture see PTSD s.v. ).
a rapid flow of water, a torrent; the torrent or flood of phenomenal life, of saṁsāra; a torrent or flood of evil or passion etc. (often identified with the āsavas)
【陽】 洪水，把人掃離解脫的。~tiṇṇa,【形】 已經克服洪水的人。
(masc, masc) (of water) flood; deluge; torrent flood, torrent
(masc, masc, in comps) (of defilements) deluge; inundation; torrent that which sweeps a man away from emancipation