Yāna
Yāna,(nt.) [fr.yā,as in yāti.Cp.Vedic yāna and Lat.Janus] 1.going,proceeding J.VI,415 (+ayāna,opposed to ṭhāna).-- 2.means of motion,carriage,vehicle.Different kinds of carriages are enumd at Nd1 145 (on Sn.816) with hatthi° (elephant-),go° (cow-),aja° (goat-),meṇḍaka° (ram-),oṭṭha° (camel-?),khara° (donkey-).Cp.Miln.276.-- yāna is one of the requisites (carriage or other means of locomotion) of the bhikkhu & as such included in the deyya-dhamma or 14 gifts (see yañña & deyya-dh.).Thus mentioned with anna pāna vattha etc.at S.I,94; A.II,85; Pug.51.-- Cp.the defn & application of the term yāna as given below under yāna-sannidhi.-- See e.g.the foll.passages:Vin.I,191 (bhikkhū yānena yāyanti ...na bhikkhave yānena yāyitabbaṁ; yo yāyeyya etc.:here a “carriage” is expressly forbidden to the bhikkhu!),231 (Ambapālī bhadrāni-bhadrāni yānāni yojāpetvā bhadraṁ yānaṁ abhirūhitvā ...),242 (same phrase with Meṇḍaka gahapati); D.I,7,89,106; M.I,366 (yānaṁ poroseyyaṁ pavara-maṇi-kuṇḍalaṁ,where vv.ll.on p.561 read voropeyya and oropeyya,which Neumann (unwarrantedly) adopts in his trsln:Mittl.Sammlung2 1921,II.666; the C.accepts reading poroseyya with expln “puris-anucchavikaṁ yānaṁ”); Dh.323 (=hatthiyānādīni DhA.IV,6); J.III,525 sq.; V,59; VI,223 (=ratha); Kvu 599 (Erāvaṇo hatthināgo sahassa-yuttaṁ dibbaṁ yānaṁ; trsld as “the wondrous elephant E.the thousand-wise yoked celestial mount.” trsl.p.347 (lit.vehicle) Pv III,228 (=ratha or vayha etc.PvA.186); PvA.113.-- iddhi-yāna carriage of magic power Miln.276; deva° godly carriage Miln.276; applied to the 8 fold Aryan Path at Sn.139 (=devalokaṁ yāpetuṁ samatthatā ...aṭṭha-samāpatti-yānaṁ SnA 184).Similarly of the Path:magg’aṭṭhaṅgika-yāna (--yāyinī) Th.2,389 (=aṭṭhaṅgika-magga-saṅkhāta ariya-yāna ThA.257); and brahma-yāna dhamma-yāna “the very best & excellent carriage” as Ep.of magga S.V,5,cp.J.IV,100.Cp.the later terms mahā and hīna-yāna.See also yānikata.
--ugghata shaking or jolting of the carriage Vin.II,276; DhA.III,283.--gata having ascended the carriage D.I,126.--puṭosā (°puṭoḷī) provision bag on a carriage (provision for the journey?) Vism.328 (so read for paṭṭoli).--bhūmi carriage-ground,i.e.the road as far as accessible to a carriage D.I,89; Sn.418.--sannidhi storing up of carriages or means of locomotion D.I,6 (with expln at DA.I,82 as follows:yānaṁ nāma vayhaṁ ratho sakaṭaṁ sandamānikā pataṅkī ti.Na pan’etaṁ pabbajitassa yānaṁ,upāhanā yānaṁ pana); Sn.924 (=anna-pāna-vattha-yāna-sannidhi Nd1 372).--sukha pleasures of riding and driving Kvu 209; cp.Kvu trsl.127.(Page 553)