Hello everybody!
I'm wondering what would be your thoughts on these two words: Passanā and Dassanā
Both of them seem to point to "seeing" but, from Sanskrit, dassanā seems closer to "showing, exhibiting, appearance".
I have only seen their meaning from an etymological point of view, what would a contextual analysis point to?
With metta.
Passanā & Dassanā
Re: Passanā & Dassanā
Hello Unrul3r,
"Passanā" is used only as a part of "anupassanā" and "vipassanā".
In Pali there's also a form 'dasseti' - 'show, make appear', similar to Sanskrit, but that's just a causative form.
Margaret Cone's Pali dictionary lists both 'passati' and 'dakkhati' under the verb root 'dis'.
Metta, Dmytro
They correspond to the verbs 'passati' and 'dakkhati' ('dassati').Unrul3r wrote:Hello everybody!
I'm wondering what would be your thoughts on these two words: Passanā and Dassanā
"Passanā" is used only as a part of "anupassanā" and "vipassanā".
AFAIK, in Sanskrit the 'dar"s' and 'pa"s' are interchangeable forms of the same verb.Both of them seem to point to "seeing" but, from Sanskrit, dassanā seems closer to "showing, exhibiting, appearance".
In Pali there's also a form 'dasseti' - 'show, make appear', similar to Sanskrit, but that's just a causative form.
Margaret Cone's Pali dictionary lists both 'passati' and 'dakkhati' under the verb root 'dis'.
Metta, Dmytro
Re: Passanā & Dassanā
I see.
Thank you for the reply Dymtro!
Thank you for the reply Dymtro!