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					Bhāga,[cp.Vedic bhāga,fr.bhaj,bhajati] 1.part,portion,fraction,share Vin.I,285; Sn.427 (sahassa-bhāgo maraṇassa=sahassaṁ bhāgānaṁ assā ti SnA 387; a thousand times a share of death,i.e.very near death,almost quite dead),702 (v.l.SnA 492 for Sn.samāna-bhāva,evenness,proportionate-ness); Vv 146 (=kummāsa-koṭṭhāsa VvA.62); Pv.I,115 (aḍḍhi° one half); Vin.IV,264.-- Cp.vi°. --bhāgaso (Abl.-adv.) in parts,by parts,by portions,esp.in even portions,i.e.evenly,in proportion S.I,193 (according to each one’s share; cp.Th.1,1242); M.III,183; Vv 72; Miln.330,415 (aneka° hundredfold or more).bhāgaso mita (of cities or dwelling-places etc.) evenly planned,well laid out,i.e.in squares Sn.300,305 (nivesanāni suvibhattāni bhāgaso); J.V,266 (cp.C.on p.272)=Nd2 304III,D; Pv.I,1013 (=bhāgato mita PvA.52).--bhāgabhatta apportioned food,ration DhA.I,134.-- Cp.dobbhagga “disproportionateness," i.e.bad luck.-- 2.apportioned share (of money),fee,remuneration,always in term ācariya° (ācariyassa) the teacher’s fee (usually consisting in 1,000 kahāpaṇas) J.I,273; V,457; VI,178; Miln.10; DhA.I,253.-- 3.division of space,quarter,side,place,region:disā° quarter of the compass Vin.II,217; para° outside part KhA 206 =PvA.24 (kuḍḍānaṁ parabhāgā=tiro-kuḍḍā); pacchābhāgaṁ (Acc.adv.) at the back part,behind PvA.114.-- fig.way,respect,in ubhato-bhāga-vimutta “free in both ways" D.II,71; M.I,477 (see Dial II.70; i.e.free both by insight and by the intellectual discipline of the 8 stages of Deliverance,the aṭṭha vimokkhā).-- 4.division of time,time,always --°,e.g.pubba° the past,apara° the future PvA.133; obl.cases adverbially:tena divasa-bhāgena (+ratti bhāgena) at that day (& that very night) Miln.18; apara-bhāge (Loc.) in future J.I,34; PvA.116.(Page 501)