Thīna
Thīna,(nt.) [Sk.styāna; orig.pp.of styāyate to become hard,to congeal; steịā (cp.also thira)=Gr.stέas grease,tale; Lat.stīpo to compress; also Sk.stimita (motionless)=P.timi; stīma (slow),Mhg.stīm; Goth.etc.stains=E.stone; Gr.stίfos (heap); Lat.stīpes (pale); Ohg.stīf=E.stiff] stiffness,obduracy,stolidity,indifference (cp.thaddha & tandī,closely related in meaning).Together with middha it is one of the 5 hindrances (nīvaraṇāni) to Arahantship (see below).Def.as cittassa akammaññatā,unwieldiness or impliability of mind (=immobility) at Nd2 290=Dhs.1156,1236=Nett 86; as citta-gelaññaṁ morbid state of mind (“psychosis”) at DA.I,211.-- Sn.942 (niddaṁ tandiṁ sahe thīnaṁ pamādena na saṁvase),1106; Vbh.352 (=Nd2 290 as expln of līnatta); Vism.262 (°sineha,where p.361 reads patthinna°).
--middha sloth & drowsiness,stolidity & torpor; two of the 5 nīvaraṇāni (Dhs.trsl.pp.120,310) Vin.II,200 (vigata°); D.I,71,246; III,49,234,269,278; S.I,99; III,106; V,277 sq.; A.III,69 sq.; 421; Sn.437 (pañcamī senā Mārassa); It.27,120; Ps.I.31,45,162; II,12,169,179,228; Pug.68; Dhs.1154,1486; Vism.469; Sdhp.459.(Page 309)