masculine
an obstacle; impediment; delay; illusion; hindrance to spiritual progress
Papañca [in its Pāli meaning uncertain whether identical with Sanskrit prapañca (pra + pañc to spread out; meaning "expansion, diffuseness, manifoldedness"; cf. papañceti and papañca 3 ) more likely, as suggested by etymology and meaning of Latin im-ped-iment-um, connected with pada, thus perhaps originally "pa-pad-ya," i.e. what is in front of (i.e. in the way of) the feet (as an obstacle)] 1. obstacle, impediment, a burden which causes delay, hindrance, delay Dhp-a I 18; II 91 (kathā°). °ṃ karoti to delay, to tarry Ja IV 145; °ṃ akatvā without delay Ja I 260; VI 392. — ati° too great a delay Ja I 64; II 92. 2. illusion, obsession, hindrance to spiritual progress M I 65; S I 100; IV 52, 71; A II 161 f.; III 393 f.; Snp 530 (= taṇhā-diṭṭhi-mānabheda-p. Pj II 431; and generally in commentaries so resolved, without verbal analysis); Ud 77 (as feminine papañcā); Thag 519, 902, 989 (cf. Ps.B. 344, 345 and JRAS 1906, past participle 246 f.; Neumann M.S. "Sonderheit," see LMN page 210, 211 and M.S. I 119 in translation of M I 65 nippapañca); Dhp 195, 254 (°ābhiratā pajā, nippapañcā Tathāgatā; = taṇhādisu p° esu abhiratā Dhp-a III 378); Ja I 9; Pv IV 1 34 (= taṇhādi-p. Pv-a 230); Nett 37, 38; Pj II 495 (gihi). — nippapañca (q.v.) without obsession. 3. diffuseness, copiousness Pj II 40. -saṅkhā sign or characteristic of obsession Snp 874 (cf. Pj II 553; = taṇhā° diṭṭhi° and māna° Nidd I 280), 916 (= avijjādayo kilesā mūlaṃ Pj II 562); -saññā (°saṅkhā) idea of obsession, idee fixe, illusion D II 277 (cf. D.B. II 312); M I 109, 112, 271, 383; S IV 71. {413}
【陽】 障礙; 妨礙; 延誤; 妄想; 心靈進展的阻礙.
(masc, masc, from papañceti) various opinions; proliferation; endless conceptualization obstacle, impediment, delay, illusion, hindrance to spiritual progress [lit.] expanding; spreading Construction: pa + √pañc + a