- inferior, low; poor, miserable; vile, base, abject, contemptible, despicable Vin.i.10; DN.i.82 DN.i.98; SN.ii.154 (hīnaṃ dhātuṃ paṭicca uppajjati hīnā saññā); SN.iii.47; SN.iv.88, SN.iv.309 (citta h. duggata); DN.iii.106 DN.iii.111 sq., DN.iii.215 (dhātu); AN.ii.154; AN.iii.349 sq.; AN.v.59 sq. Snp.799, Snp.903 sq.; Mnd.48, Mnd.103, Mnd.107, Mnd.146; Ja.ii.6; Pv.iv.1#27 (opp. paṇīta); Vv.24#13 (= lāmaka Vv-a.116); Dhs.1025; Dhs-a.45; Mil.288; Vism.13; Dhp-a.iii.163
■ Often opposed to ukkaṭṭha (exalted, decent, noble), e.g. Vin.iv.6; Ja.i.20, Ja.i.22; Ja.iii.218; Vb-a.410; or in graduated sequence hīna (→ majjhima) → paṇīta (i.e. low, medium excellent), e.g. Vism.11, Vism.85 sq., Vism.424, Vism.473. See majjhima. - deprived of, wanting, lacking Snp.725; Iti.106 (ceto-vimutti˚); Pp.35
■ hīnāya āvattati to turn to the lower, to give up orders, return to secular life Vin.i.17; SN.ii.231; SN.iv.191; Ud.21; AN.iii.393 sq. MN.i.460; Snp.p.92; Pp.66; hīnāya vattati id. Ja.i.276 hīnāy’āvatta one who returns to the world MN.i.460, MN.i.462; SN.ii.50; SN.iv.103; Mnd.147.
- -ādhimutta having low inclinations Ja.iii.87; Pp.26 ˚ika id. SN.ii.157; Iti.70.
- -kāya inferior assembly Vv-a.298 (here meaning Yamaloka); Pv-a.5.
- -jacca low-born, low-caste Ja.ii.5; Ja.iii.452; Ja.v.19, Ja.v.257.
- -vāda one whose doctrine is defective Snp.827; Mnd.167.
- -viriya lacking in energy Iti.116; Dhp-a.i.75; Dhp-a.ii.260.
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