a class of ascetics with matted hair; usually worshipping fire, sometimes classed under Isi; matted-hair ascetic.

Reproductive Kamma; regenerative Karma.

the continent of the rose-apples, i.e. India.

old age; decay.

womb-born creatures; those born from the womb; viviparous.

impulsion; apperception; impulsive moment; a phase or stage of the process of consciousness at which there is full perception and at which Karma is performed, usually lasting for seven thought-moments.

the curved finial (of a gable); gable-finial; (elongated ornate) gable spire.

stanzas for the blessing or glory of victory.

practice of watchfulness; avoidance of sleep; wakefulness.

1. a birth story; the stories of the Buddha’s previous lives. 2. “Birth Stories”; name of the tenth division of the Khuddaka Nikaya.

birth; rebirth.

a previous birth; former life.

rebirth; re-existence; future life.

1. the conqueror; the victor; the Buddha. 2. Jaina.

a disciple of the Buddha.

the tongue.

tongue-door; tongue-avenue.

tongue-consciousness.

a shaven-headed female devotee who wears white robes and observes five or eight precepts; white-robed female lay follower.

life; vitality.

vitality; life- principle; psychic life; the faculty of life.

base (for the principle Buddha image); pedestal.

candlestick.

bowl-support; bowl stand.