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asāhasena

asāhasa

masc instr sg of asāhasa (adj); nt instr sg of asāhasa (adj); nt instr sg of asāhasa (noun)

  1. asāhasa (adj): meek; gentle; non-violent; lit. without violence
  2. asāhasa (nt): meekness; gentleness; non-violence; lit. without violence
  3. asāhasena (ind): slowly; not indiscriminately; not arbitrarily; not jumping (to conclusions); lit. without violence
  4. asāhasena (ind): meekly; gently; non-violently; lit. without violence

Etymology. na > a + √sah > sāh + as + *a; from √sah 'overcome, prevail'; Sanskrit asāhasa [sah]

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

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