Indian stream·Pāli Tipiṭaka·Sutta-Nipāta·Glossary
Fausböll's glossary of Pāli terms
V. Fausböll's prefatory glossary to his 1881 translation: principal Pāli terms (Buddha, Dhamma, Saṅgha, Nibbāna, Saṃsāra, the four Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path) with English equivalents and contextual notes.
Source context
- Theme
- technical terminological apparatus for Pāli doctrinal vocabulary
Steiner
not engaged in the GA corpus
Cross-tradition
- Pāli Abhidhamma lexicographyAbhidhamma traditions systematize doctrinal terms (e.g. dukkha, saṅkhāra, nibbāna) into precise technical registers, a practice this glossary extends into translation; cross-tradition congruence appears in the shared recognition that technical precision in spiritual terminology guards against category conflation across traditions.
- Sanskrit philosophical lexicography (Vedānta/Yoga darśana)Sanskrit śāstric traditions maintain parallel glossarial disciplines distinguishing, for example, ātman from jīva or buddhi from manas; cross-tradition congruence lies in the methodological premise that untranslated source terms carry irreducible ontological content that vernacular equivalents cannot fully absorb.
Glossary
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EXPLANATION OF WORDS **
the meaning of which is not always given in the translation.**
Âgîvika,
one belonging to a sect of naked ascetics.
Arahat,
a holy man, a saint.
Ariya,
noble.
Bhagavat,
worshipful; blessed, a name of a Buddha.
Bhikkhu,
a mendicant.
Brahman,
the supreme god of the Hindus.
Brâhmana,
a sage.
Buddha,
enlightened, a name of certain holy men who have freed themselves from existence, particularly of Samana Gotama.
Dhamma,
tenet, doctrine, custom, law, religion, virtue, thing.
Gahattha,
Gihin, a householder.
Gotama,
a name of the last Buddha. *
Gat*ila,
an ascetic wearing clotted hair. *
G*ina,
a conqueror, a name of a Buddha.
Isi,
a sage.
Khattiya,
a warrior, a prince. *
Kand*âla,
an outcast.
Mâra,
a name of the king of death, the devil.
Muni,
a thinker, a sage.
Nâga,
an eminent man; sinless?
Namuki
= Mâra.
Nibbâna,
extinction, the state of bliss of the Buddhist.
Nigantha,
a naked ascetic.
Pabbaggâ,
leaving the world, embracing ascetic life, taking the robe.
Pabbagita,
an ascetic, having taken the robe.
Paribbâga,
Paribbâgaka, a wandering mendicant.
Sakka = Sakya,
belonging to the Sakya tribe.
Sakyamuni,
the Sakya sage, a name of Buddha.
Samana,
an ascetic.
Samkhârâ,
all compound things, the material world.
Samsâra,
revolution, transmigration.
Sâvaka,
a hearer, a follower, a disciple of Buddha, including both laity and clergy.
Sekha,
a novice, student.
Sudda,
a man of the servile caste.
Sugata,
happy, a name of a Buddha.
Thera,
an elder, a senior priest.
Titthiya,
an ascetic adhering to a certain system of philosophy.
Upadhi,
the elements of the world.
Upâsaka,
a follower, a lay devotee.
Upasampadâ,
priest's orders.
Vessa, Vessika,
a man of the third caste.
Yakkha,
a giant, a malignant spirit.