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Pali
Noun
āyatana n
- sphere
- region
- sense-organ
- sensed object
2017 July 19, Vinodh Rajan, Ben Mitchell, Martin Jansche, Sascha Brawer, “Proposal to Encode Lao Characters for Pali (revised)”, in Unicode Document Register L2017/17106r (PDF), page 20:ຣູປາຍະຕະນັງ ສັທຘາຍະຕະນັງ
ຆັນຘາຍະຕະນັງ ຣະສາຍະຕະນັງ ໂຜຏຖັພພາຍະຕະນັງ ມະໂນຘາຕຸຍາ
ຕັງ ສັມປະຍຸຕຕະການັຎຈະ ຘັມມານັງ ອະວິຄະຕະປັຈຈະເຍນະ ປັຈ
ຈະໂຍ- rūpāyatanaṃ saddhāyatanaṃ ghandhāyatanaṃ rasāyatanaṃ phoṭthabbāyatanaṃ manodhātuyā taṃ sampayuttakānañca dhammānaṃ avigatapaccayena paccayo
- Visible object, sound, odour, taste, and tangible object are the cause of the factors of the mind-element and its concomitants via the non-disappearance condition
- position
Declension
Declension table of "āyatana" (neuter)
Derived terms
References
Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “āyatana”, in Pali-English Dictionary, London: Chipstead