piTati
pithati , oftener pithayati , or pitheti (see also (a)pidheti ; [Page345-b] to Skt. api-dhā-; Geiger 39.5 ; in Pali only pass. pithīyati, pithiyyati, in some mss. pidhiyyati; cf. AMg. pihei) ( 1 ) covers : etaṃ maṇiṃ pāṇinā pithiyeyāsi (2 sg. opt. of caus. of pass. , you are to cause to be covered ) Mv iii.25.6 ( Senart em. pidhi°); (śarāveṇa, sc. pratikṛtiṃ) pithayet Mmk 287.1 ; pithayet sarvavidiśāṃ 362.15 ; yasya pāpakṛtaṃ karma kuśalena pithīyate Ud xvi.9, 10 (= Pali Dhp. 173 , where pithīyati); ( 2 ) shuts, closes , esp. a door, also a window, the mouth: dvārās te pithitā(ḥ) LV 220.20 ; dvārā pithetha LV 201.17 ( vs ), shut the doors ; nagaradvārāṇi pithayata LV 228.2 (prose); in Mmk 560.27 perh. read dvāraṃ (for text śuddhāraṃ , q.v. ) pithayitvā; sa pithad evaṃ cittam utpādayati Śikṣ 348.10—11 (prose), he, closing (the door), forms this thought ; here pithad stands for pithan, pres. pple. n. sg. m. , perh. owing to association with Skt. (a)pidadhat? cf. Bendallʼs note ; pithita-vātayāne Mv iii.122.5 ( vs , so read, see vātayāna ); mukhadvāraṃ … pithitaṃ Divy 232.20 ; ( 3 ) blocks, suppresses (the senses, ascetically): na cendriyāṇi pithayati sma LV 257.2 (prose; Tib. bkag ), of the Bodhisattva performing austerities (yet he did not grasp the objects of sense); ( 4 ) blocks (a way), in lit. sense: mārgo … pithitaḥ Divy 7.1 ; ( 5 ) closes (the door to) or blocks (the way to), evil states of existence (either dvāra or mārga, or a synonym, may be used, or neither; the figure is clearly derived from 2 and 4 above): (tisṛṇāṃ durgatīnāṃ) dvāraṃ pithitaṃ bhaviṣyati SP 260.9 ; pithitā apāyapatha LV 117.9 ( vs ); pithituṃ apāyapatha yeṣa matir vivṛtuṃ ca ṣad-( Calc. ṣaḍ-; read sad-)gatipathaṃ hy amṛtaṃ LV 46.7 ( vs ), … to block the ways to evil and open the immortal way to good fates ( Foucaux la bonne voie ); (sarvā) pāyadurgati-pithita-gatiḥ LV 273.1 (prose); sarvāṇy akṣaṇāni pithitāny abhūvan LV 278.22 ; pithitāni … apāyapathāni Suv 62.10 ; kumārga sarvaṃ pithita apāyabhūmiḥ Śikṣ 307.3 ( vs ; Bendallʼs note misunderstands); (sarvākṣaṇa-dvārakapāṭāni) pithapayiṣyati Gv 112.20 (prose; would seem to be fut. of a caus. analogous to sthapaya-, dapaya-, etc. , but prob. read pithayiṣyati); -pīthita, m.c. for pi°, Gv 55.1 , see s.v. pithana ; pithanti (2d ed pibanti, which is absurd) sarvākṣaṇāpāyadurgativinipātadvārāṇi Gv 63.15 .