appearance etc (lit. “cover, coating”). There is a considerable fluctuation of meaning, especially between meanings 2, 3, 4. One may group as follows.
- colour Snp.447 (meda˚); SN.v.216 (chavi˚ of the skin); AN.iii.324 (sankha˚); Thag.13 (nīl’abbha˚); Vv.45#10 (danta˚ = ivory white); Pv.iv.3#9; Dhp-a.ii.3 (aruṇa˚); Snp-a.319 (chavi˚) Vv-a.2 (vicitta˚); Pv-a.215. Six colours are usually enumerated as vaṇṇā, viz. nīla pīta lohitaka odāta mañjeṭṭha pabhassara Pts.i.126; cp. the 6 colours under rūpa at Dhs.617 (where kāḷaka for pabbassara); Ja.i.12 (chabbaṇṇa-buddha-rasmiyo). Groups of five see under pañca 3 (cp. Ja.i.222)
■ dubbaṇṇa of bad colour, ugly SN.i.94; AN.v.61; Ud.76; Snp.426; Iti.99; Pp.33; Vv-a.9; Pv-a.32, Pv-a.68. Opp. suvaṇṇa of beautiful colour, lovely AN.v.61; Iti.99. Also as term for “silver.”-As t. t. in descriptions or analyses (perhaps better in meaning “appearance”) in abl. vaṇṇato by colour, with saṇṭhānato and others: Vism.184 (“kāḷa vā odāta vā manguracchavi vā”), Vism.243 = Vb-a.225; Ne.27. - appearance SN.i.115 (kassaka-vaṇṇaṃ abhinimminitvā); Ja.i.84 (id. with māṇavaka˚); Pv.ii.1#10 (= chavi-vaṇṇa Pv-a.71); Pv.iii.3#2 (kanakassa sannibha); Vv-a.16; cp. ˚dhātu
- lustre, splendour (cp. next meaning) DN.iii.143 (suvaṇṇa˚, or = 1); Pv.ii.9#62 (na koci devo vaṇṇena sambuddhaṃ atirocati); Pv.iii.9#1 (suriya˚); Vv.29#1 (= sarīr obhāsa Vv-a.122); Pv-a.10 (suvaṇṇa˚), Pv-a.44.
- beauty (cp. vaṇṇavant) DN.ii.220 (abhikkanta˚); MN.i.142 (id.) DN.iii.68 (āyu +); Pv.ii.9#10 (= rūpa-sampatti Pv-a.117) Sometimes combined with other ideals, as (in set of 5) āyu, sukha, yasa, sagga AN.iii.47; or āyu, yasa, sukha ādhipacca Ja.iv.275, or (4): āyu, sukha, bala AN.iii.63
- expression, look, specified as mukha˚; e.g. SN.iii.2, SN.iii.235; SN.iv.275 sq.; AN.v.342; Pv.iii.9#1; Pv-a.122.
- colour of skin, appearance of body, complexion MN.ii.32 (parama), MN.ii.84 (seṭṭha); AN.iii.33 (dibba); AN.iv.396 (id.); Snp.610 (doubtful, more likely because of its combination with sara to below 8!),