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anvāssavati {pi}


Pāḷi; √ anvāssavati
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alt. sp.: IPA: ən̪ʋɑːs̪s̪əʋət̪ɪ, Velthuis: anvaassavati, readable: anvaassavati, simple: anvassavati
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khmer: អន្វាស្សវតិ
thai: อนฺวาสฺสวติ
sinhal.: අන්වාස්සවති
burm.: အနွာဿဝတိ
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ATI Glossary

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Buddhist Dictionary

by late Ven. Nyanalokita Thera:

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PTS Dictionary

by the Pali Text Society:

 

Glossary Thanissaro

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Illustrated Glossary of Pāli Terms

by Ven. Varado Maha Thera:

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Etymology

Alternative spellings

Their alternative spellings are

Equivalence in practice

The two words are used in similar ways, which suggests their equivalence, for example:

• spiritually unwholesome factors do not pursue him

akusalā dhammā nānussavanti. (SN iv 188)

• spiritually unwholesome factors will pursue him

akusalā dhammā anvāssavissantī ti. (MN iii 113)

To pursue: to continue to afflict

Because savati means ‘to flow,’ it is tempting to render both words in terms of ‘flow,’ as translators often do, and so does DOP (‘flows after, flows upon, flows continually over’). But the PED suggests anvāssavati means not just ‘stream into’ but also ‘attack, befall.’ We prefer ‘pursue’ because it means ‘to continue to afflict’ (Webster’s). One simile in particular shows the incongruity of ‘flow,’ where flies ‘attack and pursue’ someone smelling like a rotten corpse. See illustrations below.

Illustrations

anvāssavissantī

anvāssavissantī: (main article see: anvāssavati)

Illustration: anvāssavissantī, pursue

’The flies will surely attack and pursue one who has putrefied himself and who is full of inward rottenness. They cannot fail to do so.

Taṁ vata bhikkhu kaṭuviyakataṁ attānaṁ āmagandhe avassutaṁ makkhikā nānupatissanti nanvāssavissantī ti netaṁ ṭhānaṁ vijjatī ti.

‘His thoughts bound up with attachment will attack him like flies.’

Makkhikā anupatissanti saṅkappā rāganissitā. (AN i 280)

While I am pacing back and forth thus, neither greed nor dejection nor unvirtuous, spiritually unwholesome factors will pursue me.

nābhijjhādomanassā pāpakā akusalā dhammā anvāssavissantī ti. (MN iii 113)

anvāssaveyyuṁ

anvāssaveyyuṁ: (main article see: anvāssavati)

Illustration: anvāssaveyyuṁ, pursue

If you abide with the faculty of sight unrestrained [from grasping, through mindfulness], greed, dejection, and unvirtuous, spiritually unwholesome factors would pursue you.

cakkhundriyaṁ asaṁvutaṁ viharantaṁ abhijjhādomanassā pāpakā akusalā dhammā anvāssaveyyuṁ. (SN iv 178)

anussavanti

anussavanti: (main article see: anvāssavati)

Illustration: anussavanti, pursue

I abide mindfully in such a way that perceptually obscuring states do not pursue me

tathā sato viharāmi yathā sataṁ viharantaṁ āsavā nānussavanti. (SN ii 54)

 

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