Word Study 3

Word Study 3

Analytical Study of Uppilāvita
Uppilāvita has one root -plu (to float). It means floated up, emerged. Either ‘āpe’ or ‘aya’ suffix together with ‘ta’ suffix is added to it. Its verb is Uplavati (ud + plu).
Or, plu root means going (gati)[i]. With ‘ud’ suffix, it means going up. With causative suffix, it means cause to go up, cause to float.
Word formations
i.              (i)
    ut +
plu + āpe + ta > uppilāvita
         pp           v 
To become uppilāvita, ‘i’ is inserted between ‘p’ and ‘l’, ‘u’ is elided, ‘e’ is elided. Here, ‘p’ can become ‘v’ just like palāva can become palāpa (chaff).

2. ut +
plu + aya > uppilāv
        pp      o > av> āv
    Uppilāv + (i) ta >  uppilāvita

   To become the base ‘uppilāv’, ‘tp’ becomes ‘pp’, ‘u’ becomes ‘o’ then ‘av’. Due to ‘aya’ suffix, ‘av’    becomes ‘āv’ .Then ‘uppilāv’ is added to suffix to become ‘uppilāvita.
The Sanskrit root is alsoplu

Application of word
Uppilāvitattanti uppilāpanapīti.[ii]
This sentence explains uppilāv+ita comes from uppilāp + ana. In uppilāv, the final consonant ‘v’ becomes ‘p’.
Uppilāpeti cittaṃ uppilāvitaṃ karotīti ubbilāpanā, sā eva pīti, tassā.[iii]
Uppilāvino bhāvo uppilāvitattaṃ. Kassa uppilāvitattanti? Cetasoti. Uddhaccāvahāya uppilāpanapītiyā etaṃ adhivacanaṃ.[iv]
By the above three sentences, uppilāvita refers to pīti, that can cause to mind to rise up.
Other readings are: ubbillāvita [v] where ‘pp’ letter becomes ‘bb’.






[i] Dhātumālā, 21
[ii] Mūlapaṇṇāsa-aṭṭhakathā –II,25
[iii] Sīlakkhandhavaggaabhinavaṭīkā-I,22
[iv] Sīlakkhandhavaggaṭṭhakathā-I,1
[v] Sīlakkhandhavaggaṭīkā-I, 19

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