masculine
a common world-ling; uneducated person
Puthujjana [*prthag-jana, thus puthu 1 + jana, but from the point of view of Pāli identical in form and meaning with puthu 2 , as shown by use of puthu in similar compounds and by Comentarial explanation. One may even say that puthu 1 = pr̥thak is not felt at all in the Pāli word. Trenckner ("Notes" 76) already hinted at this by saying "puthujjana, partly confounded with puthu"; a connection which also underlies its explanation as "one-of-the-many-folk" at PtsC. 80 07 and 291 3 . It is felt to belong to puthu 2 in the same sense as German "die breite Masse," or Greek οἱ πολλοί. The explanation at Nidd I 308 = 328 is puthu-nānā-janā. A long and detailed etymological-speculation explanation of the term is found at Sv I 59, translated at BMPE 237, note 3. The BHS form is pr̥thagjana Divy 133 etc.] an ordinary, average person (4 classes of ordinary people are discussed at Cpd. 49, 50), a common worldling, a man of the people, an ordinary man M I 1, 7, 135, 239, 323; III 64, 227; S I 148; II 94 f. (assutavā), 151 (the same); III 46, 108, 162; IV 157, 196, 201 (assutavā), 206 f.; V 362 (as opposed to sotāpanna); A I 27, 147 (maraṇa-dhammin), 178, 267; II 129, 163; III 54; IV 68, 97, 157, 372; Snp 351, 455, 706, 816, 859; Dhp 59, 272; Vv 82 6 (= anariya Vv-a 321, + anavabodha); Nidd I 146, 248; Paṭis I 61 f., 143, 156; II 27; Dhs 1003 (cf. As 248 f. ); Vism 311 (= anariya); Vibh-a 133 (avijjābhikhūta, bhava-taṇhābhibhūta), 186 (ummattaka, opposed to upabrūhita-ñāṇa-purisa, exemplifying upādāna and kamma); Dhp-a I 5 (opposite ariyasāvaka), 445; Saddh 363. -kalyāṇaka (cf. BHS pr̥thagjana-kalyāṇaka Divy 419, 429) an ordinary man striving after his spiritual good Nidd I 477; Paṭis I 176; II 190, 193; -bhikkhu a bhikkhu of the common sort Sv I 269; Vibh-a 383; -sukha ordinary happiness M I 454.
(masc, masc, comp) common man; ordinary man; normal person; man in the street common world-ling, uneducated person Construction: puthu + jana