LOGOI

The corpus record — Pali

avīci

Avīci

avīciniraya , one of the (great) hells (see niraya ), described in vivid colours at many passages of the Pāli canon, e.g at Vin.ii.203 = Iti.86 ; Mnd.18 , Mnd.347 , Mnd.405 = Cnd.304 iiid; Pts.i.83 ; Dhs.1281 ; Ja.i.71 , Ja.i.96 ; Ja.iii.182 ; Ja.iv.159 ; Dhp-a.i.148 ; Pv-a.52 ; Snp-a.290 ; Sdhp.37

Every figure on this page is a live query of the corpus record.

Where it lives

What it meant — PTS Pali–English Dictionary

  1. avīciniraya, one of the (great) hells (see niraya), described in vivid colours at many passages of the Pāli canon, e.g at Vin.ii.203 = Iti.86; Mnd.18, Mnd.347, Mnd.405 = Cnd.304 iiid; Pts.i.83; Dhs.1281; Ja.i.71, Ja.i.96; Ja.iii.182; Ja.iv.159; Dhp-a.i.148; Pv-a.52; Snp-a.290; Sdhp.37, Sdhp.194; Pgdp.5 sq. etc etc.
  2. disintegration, decay Vism.449 (a. jarā nāma).

B.Sk. avīci a + vīci (?) no intermission, or no pleasure (?), unknown, but very likely popular etym.

In the wild

Downloads

Word record (JSON)·Concordance (CSV)·Frequencies (CSV)·Cite (BibTeX)

CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable

Pali text and translations from SuttaCentral (Bilara), dedicated to the public domain (CC0). PTS Pali–English Dictionary entries, public domain.