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appamaññaṁ

Appamaññā

feminine boundlessness, infinitude, as psych. t. t. appl d. in later books to the four varieties of philanthropy, viz mettā karuṃā muditā upekkhā i.e. love, pity, sympathy desinterestedness, and as such enumerated at DN.iii.223 (q. v for detailed ref. as to var. passages); Pts.i.84 ; Vb.272 sq.; Dhs

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Sutta Nipata 1 · 0.5/10k
Digha Nikaya 1 · 0.07/10k

What it meant — PTS Pali–English Dictionary

feminine boundlessness, infinitude, as psych. t. t. appl^d. in later books to the four varieties of philanthropy, viz mettā karuṃā muditā upekkhā i.e. love, pity, sympathy desinterestedness, and as such enumerated at DN.iii.223 (q. v for detailed ref. as to var. passages); Pts.i.84; Vb.272 sq.; Dhs-a.195. By itself at Snp.507 (= mettajjhānasankhātā a. Snp-a.417). See for further expl^n.Dhs trsl. p. 66 and mettā.

a + pamaññā, abstr. fr. pamāṇa = Sk. *pramānya

In the wild

appamaññā Digha Nikaya 33 (dn33:1.11.51)
appamaññaṁ Sutta Nipata 3.5 (snp3.5:25.4)

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