masculine & feminine
- joy, enjoyment, pleasure, delight in (c loc.) SN.i.16, SN.i.39, SN.i.54; SN.ii.101 sq. (āhāre); SN.iii.14 (= upādāna), SN.iv.36 sq.; AN.ii.10 (kāma˚, bhava˚, diṭṭhi˚), AN.iii.246, AN.iv.423 sq. (dhamma˚); Snp.1055 (+ nivesana); Cnd.330 (= taṇhā); Pp.57; Dhs.1059≈(in def. of taṇhā) Vb.145, Vb.356, Vb.361; Dhs-a.363; Thag-a.65, Thag-a.167
■ For nandī at Mil.289 read tandī. - a musical instrument: joy-drum [Sk. nandī] Vin.iii.108 (= vijayabheri) Cp. ā˚.
- -(y)āvatta “turning auspiciously” (i.e. turning to the right: see dakkhiṇāvatta), auspicious, good Ne.2 Ne.4, Ne.7, Ne.113 (always attr. of naya);
- -ūpasecana (rāgasalla sprinkled over with joy, having joy as its sauce Ne.116, Ne.117; cp. maṃsûpasecana (odana) Ja.iii.144 = Ja.vi.24
- -kkhaya the destruction of (finding) delight SN.iii.51
- -(ṃ)jaha giving up or abandoning joy Snp.1101 (+ okañjaha & kappañjaha) Cnd.331;
- -bhava existence of joy, being full of joy, in ˚parikkhīṇa one in whom joy is extinct (i.e. an Arahant), explained however by Com as one who has rid himself of the craving for rebirth (tīsu bhavesu parikkhīnataṇha Dhp-a.iv.192 = Snp-a.469 SN.i.2 SN.i.53 Snp.175 Snp.637 = Dhp.413;
- - mukhī (adj. f.) “joyfaced,” showing a merry face, epithet of the night (esp the eve of the uposatha) Vin.i.288 (ratti); Vin.ii.236 (id.)
- -rāga pleasure & lust, passionate delight SN.ii.227 SN.iii.51; SN.iv.142, SN.iv.174, SN.iv.180; MN.i.145; Dhs.1059 ≈ Dhs.1136 esp. as attr. of taṇhā in phrase n-r-sahagata-taṇhā (cp Mvu.iii.332: nandīrāgasahagatā tr̥ṣṇā) Vin.i.10; SN.iii.158; SN.v.425 sq.; Pts.ii.137; Ne.72;
- -saṃyojana the fetter of finding delight in anything Snp.1109, Snp.1115 Cnd.332;
- -samudaya the rise or origin of delight MN.iii.267.
Sk. nandi, but cp. BSk. nandī Divy.37