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vītadosaṁ

vītadosa

accusative singular masculine of vītadosa (adjective)

1. free from anger
2. without hostility
3. gentle

Built from

• vīta — stem · abandoned, shaken off
  Past participle of vīnati; literally 'shaken off'. The image is of shaking something away as one would shake dust from a garment.
• dosa — root · anger, corruption
  From √dus meaning 'bad, gone wrong'; cognate with Greek dys- (dysfunction). Dosa is the defilement or anger in the mind.
• -ṁ — ending · accusative singular
  Marks the object case in singular form.

Analysis. vīta (past participle of vīnati 'to abandon, shake off') + dosa ('anger, hatred'); literally 'anger abandoned'

Etymology. vīta from √vī (related to Latin 'vita' 'life' in the sense of vital movement, hence 'to shake') + dosa from √dus (related to Greek dys- 'bad'; as a noun, 'anger' is the badness or corruption in the mind). The compound describes the mental quality of one whose anger has been removed.

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

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