pavana (9323)

pavana
Entry 9323, Page 338, Col. 1

(pavana, pavana)
pavana¦ (nt. ? = Pali id.), wood, forest; so Pali comms. regularly, cf. MN i.117.23 araññe pavane (clearly near- synonym of arañña), comm. ii.85.2 vanasaṇḍe; DN comm. ii.680.14--15 (on DN ii.254.6) pavanaṃ vuccati vanasaṇḍo; use of the word in Pali and BHS clearly refers to life in the wilds, contrasting with life in society; Tib. on SP 13.2 nags tshal, wood; etym. of the word not certain, but unlikely to be connected with Skt. pravaṇa (PTSD; others = upavana, see PTSD): pavane vasanti SP 11.13 (Nep. mss. ya vane); 13.2 (Nep. mss. hi vane); ekāntasthāyī pavane (Nep. mss. ha vane) vasāmi 90.1; °ne vaseyaṃ LV 393.2 (v.l. upavane, unmetr.); viharatha pavane udagracittā Mv ii.361.18; pavanaṃ vrajitvā Mv ii.382.14, going into the forest. All these vss, but in Pali also in prose.