Pamāṇa
					
					Pamāṇa,(nt.) [of pa+mā,Vedic pramāṇa] 1.measure,size,amount S.II,235; A.I,88; III,52,356 sq.; V,140 sq.; Miln.285 (cp.trsl.II.133,n.2); SnA 137; VvA.16; PvA.55 (ghaṭa°),70 (ekahattha°),99 (tālakkhandha°),268 (sīla°).-- 2.measure of time,compass,length,duration PvA.136 (jīvitaṁ paricchinna °ṁ); esp.in cpd.āyu° age S.I,151; A.I,213; II,126 sq.and passim (cp.āyu).-- 3.age (often by Com.taken as “worldly characteristic,” see below rūpa° and cp.Nd2 406 on Sn.1076); DhA.I,38.-- 4.limit PvA.123,130 (dhanassa).-- 5.(appld meaning) standard,definition,description,dimension S.IV,158≈Sn.1076 (perhaps (“age”).pamāṇaṁ karoti set an example DhA.III,300 (maṁ p.katvā).-- adj.(-°) of characteristic,of the character of,measuring or measured by,taking the standard of,only in cpd.rūpa° measuring by (appearance or) form,or held in the sphere of form (defined or Pug.A 229 as “rūpa-ppamāṇ’ādisu sampattiyuttaṁ rūpaṁ pamāṇaṁ karotī ti”) A.II,71=Pug.53; Nd2 406.-- appamāṇa without a measure,unlimited,immeasurable,incomparable D.I,31; II,12 (+uḷāra); M.III,145 (ceto-vimutti); A.I,183,192; II,73; III,52; V,299 sq.,344 sq.; Sn.507; PvA.110 (=atula).See also appamāṇa.
  --kata taken as standard,set as example,being the measure,in phrase p.-kataṁ kammaṁ D.I,251; S.IV,322.(Page 416)