Dear Nina,

Good work! Have you seen the 14 meanings of "dhamma" listed in verse 784 of
the Abhidhaanappadiipikaa (a 12th cent. Pali thesaurus) ? I quote it below
along with its .tiikaa for your information.

784.
dhammo sabhaave pariyattipa~n~naa-,
~naayesu saccappakatiisu pu~n~ne.
~neyye gu.naacaarasamaadhisuupi,
nissattataapattisu kaara.naado.

[sabhaava, pariyatti, pa~n~naa, ~naaya, sacca, pakati, pu~n~na, ~neyya,
gu.na, aacaara, samaadhi, nissattataa, aapatti, kaara.na, etc.]

[from the .tiikaa:]
784. sabhaavo avipariitattho. pariyatti pariyaapu.nitabbaa
vinayaabhidhammasuttantaa. ~naayo yutti, sappa.tipadaa vaa maggaadayo.
~neyye sa"nkhaaravikaaralakkha.nanibbaanapa~n~nattivasena pa~ncavidhe
~neyye. nissattataa sattasabhaavassa abhaavataa. aapattiya.m ``paaraajika.m
dhamma''nti. ``saha dhammena niggayhaa''tyaadiisu kaara.ne. aadinaa
samaya~n~nuupamaahi.msaadiisupi dhammo.

Best wishes,
Jim

<< Dear friends,
Yong Peng asked me to repost OThe Meaning of Dhamma¹ I wrote a long time
ago. I shall repost this part by part, and I am open to corrections. As I go
along I shall also make some changes.
My sources are texts in the Tipi.taka, the Commentaries and the Saddaniti, a
grammar written by the Thera Aggava.msa of Pagan, in 1154.
Jim and Dmytro provided me with the Pali texts. >>



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