➥ anaṇa:

• for anaṇa:
  • free of karmic debt
  • debtlessness
• for anaṇā:
  • not in karmic debt
• for sāṇo:
  • not free of karmic debt

Etymology: aṇa and iṇa

Aṇa occurs only as anaṇa. Its synonym is iṇa. Sāṇo is sa + iṇo=‘not free of karmic debt.’

Karmic debt

Karmic debt is defined in this quote:

• He misconducts himself by way of body, speech, and mind. This, I declare, is getting into karmic debt.

kāyena duccaritaṁ carati vācāya duccaritaṁ carati manasā duccaritaṁ carati. Idamassa iṇādānasmiṁ vadāmi. (AN iii 352)

Freedom from karmic debt

‘Free of karmic debt’ is illustrated in Aṅgulimāla’s verse.

• While I undertook much karmically consequential conduct that leads to [rebirth in] the plane of misery, yet its karmic consequence has reached me now. I enjoy my food free of karmic debt.

Tādisaṁ kammaṁ katvāna bahuṁ duggatigāminaṁ;
Phuṭṭho kammavipākena anaṇo bhuñjāmi bhojanaṁ. (MN ii 105)

Debtlessness

The meaning ‘debtlessness’ is seen in this passage:

• And what is the pleasure of debtlessness?

Katamañca gahapati anaṇasukhaṁ?

… In this regard a noble young man owes no debt great or small to anyone. At the thought: I owe no debt, great or small, to anyone, physical and psychological pleasure come to him. This, householder, is called the pleasure of debtlessness.

Idha gahapati kulaputto na kassaci kiñci dhāreti appaṁ vā bahuṁ vā. So na kassaci kiñci dhāremi appaṁ vā bahuṁ vā ti adhigacchati sukhaṁ adhigacchati somanassaṁ. Idaṁ vuccati gahapati anaṇasukhaṁ. (AN ii 69)

➥ anaṇā: (main article see: anaṇa)

Illustration: anaṇā, not in karmic debt

We have brought about your death, sensuous yearning. Now we are no longer in karmic debt on account of you.

Vadhaṁ carimha te kāma anaṇā dāni te mayaṁ. (Tha 138)

COMMENTS:

• 1) We take te as instrumental case.
• 2) Karmic debt on account of sensuous yearning can be explained like this:

• What is the consequence of sensuous yearnings?

Katamo ca bhikkhave kāmānaṁ vipāko

… In one yearning for sensuous pleasure a corresponding personal disposition is manifested, either meritorious or demeritorious.

yaṁ kho bhikkhave kāmayamāno tajjaṁ tajjaṁ attabhāvaṁ abhinibbatteti puññabhāgiyaṁ vā apuññabhāgiyaṁ vā ayaṁ vuccati bhikkhave kāmānaṁ vipāko. (AN iii 411)

➥ sāṇo: (main article see: anaṇa)

Illustration: sāṇo, not free of karmic debt

• For seven days I ate the country’s almsfood whilst not free of karmic debt. But on the eighth day [complete] knowledge [of things according to reality] arose in me.

sattāhameva kho ahaṁ āvuso sāṇo raṭṭhapiṇḍaṁ bhuñjiṁ. Atha aṭṭhamiyā aññā udapādi. (SN ii 221)

COMMENT:

‘[Complete] knowledge [of things according to reality]’: arahantship is associated with sammadaññā, e.g. sammadaññā vimutto (MN i 235), sammadaññāya paṇḍitā (Snp 733).

COMMENT:

Sāṇo is sa + iṇo.