Tittha
					
					Tittha,(nt.) [Vedic tīrtha,from *ter,tarate,to pass through,orig.passage (through a river),ford] 1.a fording place,landing place,which made a convenient bathing place D.II,89=Vin.I,230 (Gotama° the G.ford); J.I,339,340 (titthāraṇa); II,111; III,228 (°nāvika ferryman); 230 (nāvā° a ferry); IV,379; Pv.II,120; III,64; IV,122 (su°); Dāvs.V.59 (harbour).Titthaṁ jānāti to know a “fording place,” i.e.a means or a person to help over a difficulty or doubt M.I,223=A.V,349 (neg.) 2.a sect (always with bad connotation.Promising to lead its votaries over into salvation,it only leads them into error).
  --âyatana the sphere or fold of a sect (cp.titthiya) Vin.I,60,69; II,279; M.I,483; A.I,173; Pug.22; Dhs.381,1003 (cp.Dhs.trsl.p.101n); DA.I,118; Ledi Sadaw in J.P.T.S.1913,117--118; --kara a “ford-maker,” founder of a sect D.I,47,116; M.I,198; Sn.pp.90,92; Miln.4,6,etc.; --ññutā knowledge of a ford,in fig.sense of titthaṁ jānāti (see above) Nett 29,80.(Page 302)