➥ nidāna:

• for nidāna:
  • reason
  • basis
  • source
  • due to
• for tatonidānaṁ:
  • on that account
• nidānaṁ: reason; basis; due to; on account of it; on that account;
• nidānā: basis; on that account
• nidāno: basis; source
• nidānāni: bases
• tatonidānaṁ:

Illustration: nidāna, basis

What is the basis for the arising of sensuous yearnings?

Katamo ca bhikkhave kāmānaṁ nidānasambhavo:

Sensation is the basis for the arising of sensuous yearnings

phasso bhikkhave kāmānaṁ nidānasambhavo. (AN iii 411)

➥ nidānaṁ: (main article see: nidāna)

Illustration: nidānaṁ, reason

For whatever the reason

yatonidānaṁ

that entrenched perception and conception assail a man

purisaṁ papañcasaññāsaṅkhā samudācaranti

if there is found nothing there to be delighted in, welcomed, or clung to

ettha ce natthi abhinanditabbaṁ abhivaditabbaṁ ajjhositabbaṁ

this is the end of the proclivity to attachment

esevanto rāgānusayānaṁ. (MN i 109)

Illustration: nidānaṁ, basis

Envy and stinginess have what is agreeable and disagreeable as their basis and origin. They are generated and produced by what is agreeable and disagreeable.

Issāmacchariyaṁ kho devānaminda piyāppiyanidānaṁ piyāppiyasamudayaṁ piyāppiyajātikaṁ piyāppiyapabhavaṁ. (DN ii 277)

How could anyone incline to sensuous pleasures who sees the basis of suffering?

Yo dukkhamaddakkhi yato nidānaṁ kāmesu so jantu kathaṁ nameyya. (SN i 117)

Illustration: nidānaṁ, due to

Conduct produced from, born of, due to, originated by greed, hatred, and undiscernment of reality is spiritually unwholesome.

Yaṁ bhikkhave lobho… doso… mohapakataṁ kammaṁ mohajaṁ mohanidānaṁ mohasamudayaṁ taṁ kammaṁ akusalaṁ. (AN i 263)

On account of sensuous pleasures, due to sensuous pleasures, as a consequence of sensuous pleasures, simply on account of sensuous pleasures,

kāmahetu kāmanidānaṁ kāmādhikaraṇaṁ kāmānameva hetu

they misconduct themselves by way of body, speech, and mind.

kāyena… vācāya… manasā duccaritaṁ caranti. (MN i 87)

We are now experiencing painful, racking, piercing sense impression because of sensuous pleasure, due to sensuous pleasure.

imehi mayaṁ kāmahetu kāmanidānaṁ dukkhā tibbā kharā kaṭukā vedanā vediyāmā ti. (MN i 305-6)

Illustration: nidānaṁ, on account of it

Having had that pile of gold coins and bullion loaded onto carts and carried away, you should have it dumped midstream in the river Ganges. For what reason? Because, householder, grief, lamentation, physical pain, psychological pain, and vexation will surely arise on account of it.

imaṁ hiraññasuvaṇṇassa puñjaṁ sakaṭesu āropetvā nibbāhāpetvā majjhegaṅgāya nadiyā sote osīdāpeyyāsi. Taṁ kissa hetu? Uppajjissanti hi te gahapati tatonidānaṁ sokaparidevadukkhadomanassupāyāsā ti. (MN ii 64)

Illustration: nidānaṁ, on that account

If a man seeking an entrance to hidden treasure suddenly discovers five entrances, elation would arise in him on that account.

Seyyathā pi anuruddhā puriso ekaṁ nidhimukhaṁ gavesanto sakideva pañcanidhimukhāni adhigaccheyya tassa tatonidānaṁ ubbillaṁ uppajjeyya. (MN iii 159)

Suddenly, without reflecting, he would drink the beverage, he would not reject it, and on that account he would meet with death or deadly pain.

So taṁ pānīyakaṁsaṁ sahasā apaṭisaṅkhā piveyya na paṭinissajjeyya so tatonidānaṁ maraṇaṁ vā nigaccheyya maraṇamattaṁ vā dukkhaṁ. (SN ii 110)

➥ nidānā: (main article see: nidāna)

Illustration: nidānā, basis

Countless kinds of suffering arise in the world with attachment as their basis.

Upadhinidānā pabhavanti dukkhā ye keci lokasmiṁ anekarūpā. (Snp 1050)

Illustration: nidānā, on that account

For one who engages in wrongful bodily conduct, it is impossible, out of the question, that at death he would arise in the realm of happiness, in the heavenly worlds on that account, for that reason.

Aṭṭhānametaṁ anavakāso yaṁ kāyaduccaritasamaṅgī tannidānā tappaccayā kāyassa bhedā parammaraṇā sugatiṁ saggaṁ lokaṁ uppajjeyya netaṁ ṭhānaṁ vijjatī ti. (MN iii 66)

➥ nidāno: (main article see: nidāna)

Illustration: nidāno, basis

Attachment has craving as its basis, craving as its origin; it is generated and produced by craving.

upadhi taṇhānidāno taṇhāsamudayo taṇhājātiko taṇhāpabhavo

When there is craving, attachment arises. Without craving, attachment does not arise.

taṇhāya sati upadhi hoti taṇhāya asati upadhi na hotī ti. (SN ii 108)

Illustration: nidāno, source

Where is the source of attachment and hatred?

Rāgo ca doso ca kutonidānā

The source of attachment and hatred is here, [in oneself].

Rāgo ca doso ca itonidāno. (Snp 271-2)

Norman: ‘from this [body] passion and hatred have their origin.’

➥ nidānāni: (main article see: nidāna)

Illustration: nidānāni, bases; nidānaṁ, due to

Greed, hatred, and undiscernment of reality are bases for the arising of karmically consequential deeds.

lobho… doso… moho nidānaṁ kammānaṁ samudayāya.

Karmically consequential conduct produced from greed, born of greed, due to greed, originated by greed bears fruit wherever the rebirth of one’s individuality occurs.

Yaṁ bhikkhave lobhapakataṁ kammaṁ lobhajaṁ lobhanidānaṁ lobhasamudayaṁ yatthassa attabhāvo nibbattati tattha taṁ kammaṁ vipaccati. (AN i 134)