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TIL

Pali Dictionary

by U Kyaw Tun, et. al.

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Contents of this file: kilesa | kilesa-kāma | kilesa-parinibbāna | kilesa-vaṭṭa | kilomaka |

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ki-la

kilesa

{ki.le-tha.}

UMK-USL p18
n. things having the nature of causing anxiety and defiling the mind, mind-defiling passions:
1. lo-bha -- greed
2. do-sa -- hatred
3. mo-ha -- delusion
4. mā-na -- conceit
5. ditthi -- erroneous views
6. vicikicchā -- incisiveness
7. thi-na -- lethargy
8. udiccha -- distraction
9. ahirika -- shamelessness
10. anottappa -- having no fear of moral restraints

PTS p216
ki-le-sa
(and klesa) -- [fr. kilissati ] stain, soil, impurity, fig. affliction; in a moral sense, depravity, lust. Its appearance in Piṭaka is rare; in later works, very frequent where it is approx. tantamount to lower nature, sinful desires, vices, passions
1. kilesa as obstacle (see °āvaraṇa, °-sampayutta, °-vipayutta, °-pahāna )
2. Occurs in such combinations as kilesā ca khandhā ca abhisankhārā
3. kilesa also occurs in a series of explanatory of taṇhā
4. In the same function it stands with rāga, viz. rāga, dosa, moha kilesa, i.e. sensuality, bewilderment and lust. The grouping as dasa kilesa-vatthūni  is: 1. lobha   2. dosa   3. moha 4. māna 5. ditthi 6. vicikicchā 7. thī-naŋ 8. udicchaŋ 9. ahirikaŋ 10. anottappaŋ (UKT: notice the inclusion of -ŋ )

PTS p528
mā-na
-- 1. pride, conceit, arrogance. 2. measure

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kilesa-kāma

{ki.le-tha. ka-ma.} 
See: kilesa

UMK-USL p18
n. craving for sensuality

PTS p598
Definition of kāma as two folds: vatthu-kāma and kilesa-kāma , or desire for realities, objective kāma, and desire as property of stained character, i.e. subjective kāma

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kilesa-parinibbāna

{ki.-le-tha. pa.ri.neibba-na.}
See: kilesa

UMK-USL p18
n. (of Buddhas and and saints) annihilation of defiling passions through knowledge of the right path.

PTS p421
pari
-- 1. (lit.) (a) away from, off, (b) all round, round
2. (fig.) (a) quite, completely, very much, (b) too much, excessively

PTS p362-364
nibbāna
-- 1. the going out of a lamp or fire. 2. health, the sense of bodily well-being (probably at first, the passing away of feverishness, restlessness. 3. the dying out in the heart of the three-fold fire of rāga (lust), dosa (ill-will), and moha (stupidity). 4. the sense of spiritual well-being, of security, emancipation, victory and peace, salvation, bliss

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kilesa-vaṭṭa

{kiletha. wuṯ~ṯa.}
Ref: kilesa

UMK-USL p18 (UKT paraphrase) --
n. ignorance, craving, and obsession -- the three factors underlying the cycle of defiling passions

PTS p594
kilesa vaṭṭa
-- circle of deed, sin and result (found only in Commentarial literature)

PTS p594
vaṭṭa -- 1. round, circular. 2. the "round" of existences, cycle of transmigration.
UKT: see vatta in gamika-vatta .

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kilomaka

{ki.lau-ma.ka.}

PTS p217
ki-lo-ma-ka
-- pleura

ki-lo-ma -- (taken as syn. of loma hair and used in the sense of
pharusa shaggy or rough ( maŋsakhaṉḍa as simile for kiloma-vācā)  -- PTS p217

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