neuter · vatthu 1 · vatthu 2
site
a site; ground; field; plot; object; a thing; a substance; a story
Vatthu 1 (neuter) [Classical Sanskrit vastu, from vas 1 ] literally "ground," hence 1. (literal) object, real thing, property, thing, substance (cf. vatthu 2 !) A II 209 (khetta°, where khetta in literally sense, cf. No. 2). Here belongs the definition of kāma as twofold: vatthu-kāma and kilesa-kāma, or desire for realities, objective kāma, and desire as property of stained character, i.e. subjective kāma, e.g. Nidd I 1; Pj II 99, 112; As 62. — On vatth° as general philosophical term cf. BMPE 455, 679, 1229, also introduction page 86; Cpd. 15, 31, 174 1 . 2. (applied meaning) object, item Vin I 121 (antima-vatthuṃ ajjhāpannaka guilty of an extreme offence?); V 138 (the 10 āghāta-vatthūni, as at Vibh 86); D III 252 (seven niddesa°), 255 (eight kusīta°), 258 (eight dāna°); AN 8.33 (eight dāna°); S II 41, 56 f.; Vibh 71 (cakkhu° etc.), 306 f., 353; Nett 114 (ten); Pj II 172; Dhp-a IV 2 (akkosa°); Pv-a 8, 20 (dāna°), 26 (left out in the same passage Pj I 209), 29, 65 (alabbhaneyya°), 96 (the same), 119, 121 (iṭṭha°), 177, {599} 220. Cf. °bhūta. 3. occasion for, reason, ground A II 158 (+ khetta [in figurative sense!], āyatana and adhikaraṇa); IV 334; D I 13 f. (aṭṭhādasahi vatthūhi etc.); Ja II 5 (avatthumhi chandaṃ mākari do not set your heart on what is unreasonable); vatthunā (instrumental) because Pv-a 118; vatthuto (ablative) on account of Pv-a 241. 4. basis, foundation, seat, (objective) substratum, substance, element Ja I 146 (kāyo paridevānaṃ v.); Vibh-a 404 (+ ārammaṇa). See most of the compounds. 5. subject matter, subject, story, account Pj II 4; Dhp-a II 66; Pv-a 77, 92, 263, 269. Cf. °gāthā and titles like Petavatthu, Vimānavatthu. -kata made a foundation or basis of, practised thoroughly Ja II 61; V 14 and passim (+ bhāvita etc.). In phrase tālavatthukata (= tāla avatthu kata) vatthu means foundation, basis, ground to feed and live on, thus "a palm deprived of its foundation": see references. under tāla; -gāthā the stanzas of the story, the introductory (explanatory, essential to its understanding) stanzas, something like "prologue" Pj II 483, 575 (preceding Snp 699 and 976); -dasaka tenfold substance or material basis Vibh-a 22; -bhūta being an object, i.e. subject to Ja V 210; -rūpa substance or substratum of matter, material form Vism 561, 564; Vibh-a 22, 172; -visadakiriyā clearing of the foundation or fundamentals, purification of the elements Vibh-a 283 = As 76 (°kiriyatā; translation Expositor 101 "cleansing of things or substance"); Vism 128; Vibh-a 276. Vatthu 2 [Vedic vāstu; from vas] site, ground, field, plot Vin III 50 (ārāma° and vihāra°), 90 (the same); Snp 209, 473 (sakhetta°, cf. vatthu 1 4), 769 (khetta + v.), 858 (the same); Thag 957 (khetta + vatthu, cf. Ps.B. page 337 1 and Vinaya Texts III 389 f. ); Miln 279 (khetta° a plot of arable land); Sv I 78 (contrasted with khetta, see khetta 1 and cf. vatthu 1 1); Pv-a 88 (gehassa the back yard of the house); haunted by fairies (parigaṇhanti) D II 87. -kamma "act concerning sites," i.e. preparing the ground for building D I 12 (translation: fixing on lucky sites for dwellings), cf. Sv I 98: akaṭa-vatthumhi gehapatiṭṭhāpanaṃ; -devatā the gods protecting the grounds, field-gods, house-gods Pv I 4 1 (= ghara-vatthuṃ adhivatthā devatā Pv-a 17); -parikiraṇa offerings over the site of a house ("consecrating sites" translation) D I 12 (cf. Sv I 98 = balikamma-karaṇaṃ); -vijjā the science of (building°) sites, the art of determining a suitable (i.e. lucky) site for a house D I 9 (see explaination at Sv I 93); S III 239; Nidd I 372; Vism 269 (in comparison); Pj I 237. See also D.B. II 92 and Fick, Soziale Gliederung 152.
【中】 位置，土地，田地，小塊土地，物體，事物，物質，故事。~ka,【形】 (在【合】中) 有其地在，被發現在。~kata,【形】 以…爲基礎的，徹底地熟練的。~gāthā,【陰】 介紹的偈。~devatā,【陰】 神出沒的地方。~vijjā,【陰】 （建築）地點的科學（即：風水學）。~visadakiriyā,【陰】 原則的清潔。
(nt, nt, from vasati) land; property; ground; site site, ground, field, plot Construction: √vas + tu
(nt, nt, from vasati) site; location; base; grounds object, thing, substance [lit.] ground Construction: √vas + tu
(nt, nt, from vasati) matter; affair; case [lit.] ground Construction: √vas + tu
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