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vedanākkhandhassa

vedanākkhandha

masc dat sg of vedanākkhandha (noun); masc gen sg of vedanākkhandha (noun)

1. aggregate of felt experience; mass of feeling; second of the five aggregates

Built from

• vedanā — stem · feeling, sensation
  From √vid 'to perceive, feel' with abstract suffix -anā. The root also gives vidya 'knowledge' and is cognate with Latin vidēre 'to see' — both originally 'to know by seeing'.
• kk — prefix · assimilated (k)
  Double consonant arising from sandhi: khandha- loses initial kh before -a, and assimilates to the preceding vowel's end, doubling the k. This is a phonetic phenomenon, not a morpheme proper.
• khandha — stem · aggregate, heap, mass
  From khaṇḍ- 'to break, scatter, divide' — hence a collected heap or grouping. In the five aggregates (pañcakkhandhā), it denotes each of the five components into which conditioned existence divides.

Analysis. vedanā (feeling, sensation) + kkhandha (aggregate, heap) — compounds to form the name of the second of the five aggregates (skandhas), the experiential dimension of conditioned existence comprising all feeling-tone (pleasant, unpleasant, neutral).

Etymology. vedanā derives from √vid (to feel, know; cognate with Latin vidēre 'to see', English wit 'to know'), with the abstract suffix -anā; kkhandha (from khaṇḍ-, to break, scatter) literally means a heap or mass, here the collected whole of feeling as one of the component factors of personhood.

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

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