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					Pitta,(nt.) [cp.Vedic pitta] 1.the bile,gall; the bile also as seat of the bilious temperament,excitement or anger.Two kinds are distinguished at KhA 60= Vism.260,viz.baddha° & abaddha°,bile as organ & bile as fluid.See also in detail Vism.359; VbhA.65,243.-- In enumerations of the parts or affections of the body pitta is as a rule combd with semha (cp.Vin.II,137; Kh 111; Vism.260,344; Miln.298).-- Vin.II,137; M.III,90; S.IV,230,231 (+semha); A.II,87; III,101,131; Sn.198 (+semha),434 (id.,expld as the two kinds at SnA 388); Nd1 370; J.I,146 (+semha); II,114 (pittan te kupitaṁ your bile is upset or out of order,i.e.you are in a bad mood); Miln.112 (vāta-pittasemha ...),304 (roga,+semha),382 (+semha); DhsA.190 (as blue-green); DhA.III,15 (cittaṁ n’atthi pittaṁ n’atthi has no heart and no bile,i.e.does not feel & get excited; vv.ll.vitta & nimitta).-- 2.[according to Morris,J.P.T.S.1893,4 for *phitta=phīta,Sk.sphīta] swelling,a gathering Vin.II,188 (Vin.Texts III,237 “a burst gall,i.e.bladder”); S.II,242.The passage is not clear,in C.on Ud.I,7 we read cittaṁ,see Morris Loc.cit.May the meaning be “muzzle”?   --kosaka gall-bladder KhA 61; Vism.263; VbhA.246.(Page 459)