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aguttadvāroti

aguttadvāra

adj

1. not guarding the doors (of); with no self-restraint (in); not protecting the mind (wrt); lit. not guarded doors

Built from

• a — prefix · not, without
  Negation prefix. Cognate to English 'un-' and Greek 'a-' (as in 'atypical').
• gutta — stem · guarded
  Past participle of guttati 'guards, protects'; from √gup 'to protect'. The verbal adjective marks a protected or guarded state.
• dvāra — stem · doors
  Noun stem from √dṝ 'to open, split'; cognate to Sanskrit dvār, Greek thyra, and English 'door'. In canonical usage, 'doors' refers to the six sense-gates (eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind).
• iti — ending · thus, as
  Particle marking the end of a nominal or adjectival phrase used attributively or predicatively in prose.

Analysis. a- (not) + gutta (guarded, past participle of guttati 'guards') + dvāra (doors); compound meaning 'doors not guarded', hence lack of restraint over the sense-gates.

Etymology. a- (negation prefix, cognate to English 'un-', Greek 'a-') + guttati from √gup 'to guard, protect' (Sanskrit gopati, gopāka 'guardian', related to English 'gaup', 'gape' in sense of watchfulness); dvāra 'door' from √dṝ 'to split, open' (Sanskrit dvār-, related to Greek 'thyra' and English 'door'); the compound reflects the Buddhist doctrine of guarding the sense-doors (indriyadvāra) to prevent unskillful mental states from arising.

Meanings from the Digital Pāḷi Dictionary; morphology and etymology by Claude.

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