Chanda: [cp. Vedic and Sk. chanda, and skandh to jump]. 1. impulse, excitement; intention, resolution, will; desire for, wish for, delight in... -- A. As virtue: ... striving after righteousness...- ardent desire, zeal... -- B. As vice: Its nearest analogue in this sense is r¤ga (lust), e. g. ch. r¤ga dosa paÂigha D I.25... In this bad sense it is nearly the same as k¤ma...; k¤machanda: sensual desire...K¤ye chanda "delight in the body" M I.500...bhave ch. (pleasure in existence)...; lokasmiµ ch. (hankering after the world)...; methunasmiµ (sexual desire)...- Ch. in this quality is one of the roots of misery... -- (b) the emancipation from ch. as necessary for the attainment of Arahantship. -- vigata- (free from excitement) and a- S I.111; III.7, 107, 190; IV.387; A II.173 sq.; D III.238;... 2. (in the monastic law) consent, declaration of consent (to an official act: kamma) by an absentee Vin I.121, 122....
-¢gati in -gamana the wrong way (of behaviour, consisting) in excitement... -¢dhipateyya...standing under the dominant influence of impulse...; -¢nun¨ta led according to one's own desire...; -ja sprung from desire (dukkha) S I.22; -n¤natta the diversity or various ways of impulse or desire S II.143 sq.; D III.289...; -pah¤na the giving up of wrong desire S V.273; -m¬laka (adj.) having its root in excitement A IV.339...; -r¤ga exciting desire (cp. k¤machanda) D II.58, 60; III.289; S I.198; II.283; III. 232 sq....; -sam¤dhi the (right) concentration of good effort, classed under the 4 iddhip¤d¤ with viriya-; citta- v¨maµs¤- D III.77; S V.268; A I.39...; -sampad¤ the blessing of zeal S V.30.