feminine completeness, perfection, highest state Snp.1018, Snp.1020; Pp.70; Dhp-a.i.5; Vv-a.2 (sāvakañāṇa˚); Pv-a.139; Sdhp.328. In later literature there is mentioned a group of 10 perfections (dasa pāramiyo as the perfect exercise of the 10 principal virtues by a Bodhisatta, viz. dāna˚, sīla˚, nekkhamma˚, paññā˚ viriya˚, khanti˚, sacca˚, adhiṭṭhāna˚, mettā˚, upekhā Ja.i.73; Dhp-a.i.84.
- -ppatta (pārami˚) having attained perfection MN.iii.28; Cnd.435; Mil.21 Mil.22; cp. Mil trsl. i.34.
abstr. fr. parama, cp. BSk. mantrāṇāṃ pāramiṃ gata Divy.637