Papañca
Papañca,[in its P.meaning uncertain whether identical with Sk.prapañca (pra+pañc to spread out; meaning “expansion,diffuseness,manifoldedness”; cp.papañceti & papañca 3) more likely,as suggested by etym.& meaning of Lat.im-ped-iment-um,connected with pada,thus perhaps originally “pa-pad-ya,” i.e.what is in front of (i.e.in the way of) the feet (as an obstacle)] 1.obstacle,impediment,a burden which causes delay,hindrance,delay DhA.I,18; II,91 (kathā°).°ṁ karoti to delay,to tarry J.IV,145; °ṁ akatvā without delay J.I,260; VI,392.-- ati° too great a delay J.I,64; II,92.-- 2.illusion,obsession,hindrance to spiritual progress M.I,65; S.I,100; IV,52,71; A.II,161 sq.; III,393 sq.; Sn.530 (=taṇhā-diṭṭhi-mānabheda-p.SnA 431; and generally in Commentaries so resolved,without verbal analysis); Ud.77 (as f.papañcā); Th.1,519,902,989 (cp.Brethren 344,345 & J.R.A.S.1906,246 sq.; Neumann trsls “Sonderheit,” see Lieder p.210,211 & Mittlere Sammlung I.119 in trsl.of M.I,65 nippapañca); Dh.195,254 (°âbhiratā pajā,nippapañcā Tathāgatā; =taṇhādisu p° esu abhiratā DhA.III,378); J.I,9; Pv IV.134 (=taṇh’--ādi-p.PvA.230); Nett 37,38; SnA 495 (gihi).-- nippapañca (q.v.) without obsession.‹-› 3.diffuseness,copiousness SnA 40.
--saṅkhā sign or characteristic of obsession Sn.874 (cp.SnA 553; =taṇhā° diṭṭhi° and māna° Nd1 280),916 (=avijjādayo kilesā mūlaṁ SnA 562).--saññā (°saṅkhā) idea of obsession,idée fixe,illusion D.II,277 (cp.Dial II.312); M.I,109,112,271,383; S.IV,71.(Page 412)