➥ kvaci:

• for kvaci:
  • anywhere
  • in any way
• kvaci:
• kvacani: in any way

Tautology: ‘all directions anywhere’

Kvaci means ‘anywhere’ (PED), but it is commonly paired with another locative adverb so it becomes redundant. For instance, ‘all directions anywhere’:

• On traversing all directions with the mind one finds no one anywhere more beloved oneself.

Sabbā disā anuparigamma cetasā
Nevajjhagā piyataramattanā kvaci. (Uda 47)

Tautology: ‘in any place anywhere’

Or ‘in any place anywhere’ in the mocking, ironic, improbable verse:

• If there exists any place anywhere where without work one won’t decline, that indeed is the Untroubled’s path.

Sace atthi akammena koci kvaci na jīvati nibbānassa hi so maggo. (SN i 218)

Emphasis: ‘in any way’

Sometimes kvaci implies the emphasis, ‘in any way’:

1) Though a youth, he is not attached in any way.

yo yobbane nopanibajjhate kvaci. (Snp 218)

2) May attachment to charming things of any kind never in any way or in any place surge within me;

Mā me kvacani katthaci kiñcana rajanīyesu dhammesu rāgo udapādi. (AN iii 170)

Other renderings: DOP and Bodhi

DOP seems to reject the emphatic effect of kvacani, because it explains it as ‘somewhere, anywhere, in or regard to anything.’ But Bodhi accepts it, saying ‘Let no lust at all arise in me anywhere in any way regarding things provocative of lust’ (NDB p.762).

➥ kvacani:

Illustration: kvacani, in any way

• I am not in any way anything “belonging to anyone”

nāhaṁ kvacani kassaci kiñcanatasmiṁ

… And not in any way is there anywhere anything “belonging to me.”

na ca mama kvacani katthaci kiñcanatātthī ti. (MN ii 263-4, AN i 206, AN ii 176-7)

Comment:

The Uposatha Sutta (AN i 206) says the particular application of this contemplation is in personal relationships, where:

1) a man’s parents know him as their son, and he knows them as his parents

ayaṁ amhākaṁ putto ti so pi jānāti ime mayhaṁ mātāpitaro ti.

2) a man’s slaves and servants know him as their master, and he knows them as his slaves and servants

ayaṁ amhākaṁ ayyo ti. So pi jānāti ime mayhaṁ dāsakammakaraporisā ti.

This reflection therefore helps overcome the idea that beings possess each other.