Pali word association game

[David N. Snyder]

How about a Pali language word association game?

It could be a good way to help learn the language; I know I need all the help I can get.

It starts with one word, and someone posts a word that it is associated with, and then the next person posts a word associated with the second word and so on and on .... but it must be in Pali! And to help us learn the language, put the English translation in parenthesis after the Pali word.

There are some Pali resources and online dictionaries in the 'Announcements' section in this Pali sub-forum.

I'll start with:

Bhāvanā (mental development, also producing)

[Ben]

Great idea, David!

Bhavatta the fact of being, state, condition

[David N. Snyder]

Citta ('mind', 'consciousness', 'state of consciousness')

[Ben]

cetana: state of ceto in action, thinking as active thought, intention, purpose, will. Defined as action

[retrofuturist]

cetasika: 'mental things, mental factors', are those mental concomitants which are bound up with the simultaneously arising consciousness (citta = viññāṇa) and conditioned by its presence . Whereas in the Suttas all phenomena of existence are summed up under the aspect of 5 groups: corporeality, feeling, perception, mental formations, consciousness (s. khandha), the Abhidhamma as a rule treats them under the more philosophical 3 aspects: consciousness, mental factors and corporeality (citta, cetasika, rūpa). Thus, of these 3 aspects, the mental factors (cetasika) comprise feeling, perception and the 50 mental formations, altogether 52 mental concomitants. Of these, 25 are lofty qualities (either kammically wholesome or neutral), 14 kammically unwholesome, while 13 are as such kammically neutral, their kammical quality depending on whether they are associated with wholesome, unwholesome or neutral consciousness

[Prasadachitta]

viññana [vi~n~naa.na]:
Consciousness; cognizance; the act of taking note of sense data and ideas as they occur. There is also a type of consciousness that lies outside of the khandhas — called consciousness without feature (viññanam anidassanam) — which is not related to the six senses at all.

[David N. Snyder]

Sankhāra (mental formation, mental dispositions, construction, 'that which has been put together')

[Ben]

asankhata not put together, not proceeding from a cause 'the unconditioned'

[David N. Snyder]

nirodha (cessation)

[Ben]

Samudaya: rise, origin

[retrofuturist]

samanera - novice, in training to become a bhikkhu (monk)

[David N. Snyder]

samaneri - novice, in training to become a bhikkhuni (nun)

[retrofuturist]

bhikkhuni (nun)

[Ben]

Utunī: a menstruating woman

[David N. Snyder]

upāsikā (lay woman)

[Ben]

sāvikā: feminine form of savaka: a hearer, disciple (never an Arahant)

[retrofuturist]

sāvakā: see Ben's post above

[Ben]

WHAT THE ??

[David N. Snyder]

Puthujjana (ordinary worldling, i.e., not yet a noble one)

[David N. Snyder]

This is just a note to anyone who might be seeing boxes in any of the Pali words here, it is because you do not have Pali fonts downloaded on your computer. There are some resources in the announcements section of this Pali sub-forum showing you how to download (for free) Pali fonts with the Roman letters with the appropriate accent-pronunciation marks.