duḥkhatā (7351)

duḥkhatā
Entry 7351, Page 265, Col. 2

(duHKatA, duHKatA)
duḥkhatā¦ (Skt.), (state of) misery; three, listed Mvy 2228-31, and cited SP 108.17 f. (prose) tisṛbhir duḥkha- tābhiḥ saṃpīḍitā(ḥ)…yad uta duḥkha-duḥkhatayā saṃskāra-du° vipariṇāma-du°; on this group see AbhidhK LaV-P. vi.125 ff., state of misery qua misery (what is grievous by its very nature, from the start, always painful), state of misery due to conditioning (saṃskāra; acc. to Vism. 499.20 f. this means particularly experience in itself not painful or pleasurable, but, because impermanent and so undependable, still a cause of misery), and state of misery due to alteration (of what was pleasurable to begin with, but cannot last); in Mvy 2232--40 eight duḥ- khatā, each consisting of one of the list of evils enumerated in the first of the four noble truths.