Dear freinds,

Before you decide to tear the PED apart and throw it away, consider such
words as nika.t.thacittta etc. This word evidently means "depressed." The
notion of being debased is meaningless. However, the general idea of "being
low" is correct. Cf. Sanskrit ni + the root k.r.s.

Ole Pind

>The PED renders "nika.t.tha" as "debased" or "brought
>low". But this is the complete opposite of what the
>sutta seems to signify.
>Is this one of those errors in the PED that
>list-members were talking about earlier?

I just looked even more closely at what the PED says. You're right; the PED
is not just incomplete there, it's just plain wrong when it takes up this
example and says that nika.t.tha refers to a kind of puggalo who is debased
(in mind). So yes, I would think this is one of the PED errors. Nice catch!

/Rett




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