Parinibbāyin [from parinibāyati] one who attains Parinibbāna. Of the 2 meanings registered under Parinibbāna we find No. 1 only in a very restricted use, when taken in both senses of sa- and an- upādisesa Parinibbāna; e.g. at A II 155 f., where the distinction is made between a sa-saṅkhāra p. and an a-saṅkhāra p., as these two terms also occur in the fivefold classification of "Never-returners" (i.e. those who are not reborn) viz. antarā-parinibbāyin, upahacca°, sasaṅkhāra°, uddhaṃsota, akaniṭṭhagāmin. Thus at D III 237; S V 201, 237; A I 233; IV 14, 71 f., 146, 380; V 120; Pp 16, 17. 2. In the sense of Parinibbāna No. 2 (i.e. sa-upādisesa p.) we find parinibbāyin almost as an equivalent of Arahant in two combinations, viz. (a) tattha° (always combined with opapātika, i.e. above the ordinary cause of birth) [cf. BHS tatra-parinirvāyin Anāgāmin Divy 533]. It is also invariably combined with anāvattidhamma, e.g. at D I 156; III 108, 132; M II 56, 146; A I 232; 245, 290; II 5, 89, 238; IV 12, 399, 423; V 343; S V 346 (cf. 406), 357; Pp 16, 62, 83. See also PtsC. 742. (b) antara° [cf. BHS antarāparinirvāyin Mvu I 33] one who passives away in the middle of his term of life in a particular heaven; an Anāgāmin (cf. Buddhaghosa's explanation at Pp-a 198 as "āyuvemajjhassa antarā yeva parinibbāyanato a. p.") S V 69 = A IV 70; S V 201 = 204, 237, 285, 314, 378; A II 134; Paṭis I 161; Pp 16; Nett 190 (cf. A IV 380).