purisadamma

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purisadamma m

  1. a person to be trained or converted
    • Childers, Robert Caesar, Dictionary of the Päli language, London: Trübner & Company, 1875, page 395. (quoting the Visuddhimagga:)
      Purisadamme sáretíti purisadammasárathi, dameti vinetíti vuttaṁ hoti,
      He guides men to be tamed, thus he is leader of men to be tamed; he tames, he disciplines, is what is meant.

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