āyatana
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Pali[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Alternative forms
Noun[edit]
āyatana n
- sphere
- region
- sense-organ
- sensed object
- 2017 July 19, Vinodh Rajan, Ben Mitchell, Martin Jansche, Sascha Brawer, “Proposal to Encode Lao Characters for Pali (revised)”, in Unicode Document Register L2017/17106r[1] (PDF), page 20:
- ຣູປາຍະຕະນັງ ສັທຘາຍະຕະນັງ
ຆັນຘາຍະຕະນັງ ຣະສາຍະຕະນັງ ໂຜຏຖັພພາຍະຕະນັງ ມະໂນຘາຕຸຍາ
ຕັງ ສັມປະຍຸຕຕະການັຎຈະ ຘັມມານັງ ອະວິຄະຕະປັຈຈະເຍນະ ປັຈ
ຈະໂຍ- rūpāyatanaṃ saddhāyatanaṃ ghandhāyatanaṃ rasāyatanaṃ phoṭthabbāyatanaṃ manodhātuyā taṃ sampayuttakānañca dhammānaṃ avigatapaccayena paccayo
- Visible object, sound, odour, taste, and tangible object are the cause of the factors of the mind-element and its concomitants via the non-disappearance condition
- position
Declension[edit]
Declension table of "āyatana" (neuter)
Case \ Number | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative (first) | āyatanaṃ | āyatanāni |
Accusative (second) | āyatanaṃ | āyatanāni |
Instrumental (third) | āyatanena | āyatanehi or āyatanebhi |
Dative (fourth) | āyatanassa or āyatanāya or āyatanatthaṃ | āyatanānaṃ |
Ablative (fifth) | āyatanasmā or āyatanamhā or āyatanā | āyatanehi or āyatanebhi |
Genitive (sixth) | āyatanassa | āyatanānaṃ |
Locative (seventh) | āyatanasmiṃ or āyatanamhi or āyatane | āyatanesu |
Vocative (calling) | āyatana | āyatanāni |
Derived terms[edit]
- cakkhāyatana (“organ or sense of sight”)
References[edit]
Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “āyatana”, in Pali-English Dictionary, London: Chipstead