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Vedan¤

Rhys Davids Introduction to their translation of the Satipatthana Sutta, and the translation itself

Puremind, M. Punnaji, Awakening Meditation, 1-13, 1-15, 3-12, 4-3, 4-6, 6-8, 7-6,7, 7-11, 7-16, 8-52, 8-60, 8-61, 8-86

Wisdom Publicatiions, The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, Bhikkhu Nanamoli and Bhikkhu Bodhi, #10: The Foundations of Mindfulness, pp 145

Wisdom Publications, The Long Discourses of the Buddha, Maurice Walshe, #22: The Greater Discourse on the Foundations of Mindfulness, pp335

Pali Text Society, Middle Length Sayings I, #10: Discourse on the Applications of Mindfulness, Horner, pp70

PTS: Dialogs of the Buddha III, #33: The Recital, T.W. and C.A.F. Rhys Davids, trans., pp201

WP: The Long Discourses of the Buddha, #33: The Chanting Together, M. Walshe, trans., pp479

PTS: The Middle Length Sayings, I, #10: Applications of Mindfulness, Horner, trans., pp78

WP: The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, #10: The Foundations of Mindfulness, Bhikkhu Nanamoli and Bhikkhu Bodhi, trans., pp152

PTS: The Book of the Gradual Sayings, V: The Book of the Tens, The Great Chapter, The Great Questions, Woodward, trans., pp36ff

Pali	MO	Nyanasatta Thera	Hare	Horner	Punnaji	Nanamoli/ Bodhi	T. W. and C.A.F. Rhys Davids	Thanissaro	Walshe	Woodward	Soma Thera
vedan¤	senses, sensation	feelings		feeling	sensation	feelings	feelings	feelings	feelings	feelings	feeling	feeling

**Pali Text Society, Pali English Dictionary:**
Vedan¤:(f.) [fr. ved: see vedeti; cp. Epic Sk. vedan¤] feeling, sensation (see on term, e. g. Cpd. 14 Mrs. Rh. D. B. Psy., ch. iv.) D I.45; II.58 (cp. Dial. II.54), 66; III.58, 77, 221, 228, 238 (up¤dan¤); S III.86 sq.; A I.39, 122, 141; II.79, 198, 256; III.245 sq., 450; IV.301, 385; Kh III. (tisso v.); Sn 435, 529, 739, 1111; Nd1 109; Nd2 551 (tisso v.); Ps I.6, 50 sq., 145 sq., 153 sq.; II.109 sq., 181 sq.; Vbh 135 sq., 294, 401, 403 sq.; Dhs 3, 1348; Nett 27, 65 sq.; 83, 123, 126; Tikp 246, 317 sq., 345 sq.; Vism 460 sq.; DA I.125; VbhA 13 sq., 39 sq., 80, 178, 193, 221 (¢nupassan¤, in detail), 263 sq., 382 (various). -- Three modes of feeling (usually understood whenever mention is made of "tisso vedan¤"): sukh¤ (pleasant), dukkh¤ (painful) adukkha-m-asukh¤ (indifferent) D III.275; S II.53, 82; IV.207; A III.400; It 46; Tikp 317 sq. -- or: kusal¤, akusal¤, avy¤kat¤ Vism 460. -- Five vedan¤s: sukha¸, dukkha¸, somanassa¸, domanassa¸, upekkh¤ Vism 461. Categories of 2 to 108 modes of Vedana, S IV.223 sq. --vedan¤ is one of the 5 khandhas (see khandha II.B). -- On relation of old and new sensations (pur¤¼a nava*) see e. g. A II.40; III.388; IV.167; Vism 33; and see formula under y¤tr¤. -- In the PaÂiccasamupp¤da (q. v.) vedan¤ stands between phassa as condition and ta¼h¤ as result; see e. g. Vism 567 sq. 2. (in special application) painful sensation, suffering, pain (i. e. dukkha-vedan¤) M I.59; A I.153 (s¤r¨rik¤ bodily pain); II.116 (id.); III.143 (id.); Pv I.1015; Miln 253 (k¤yik¤ & cetasik¤); VbhA 101 (mara¸' antik¤ v. agonies of death). --vedan' aÂÂa afflicted y pain Vin II.61; III.100; J I.293. -- As adj. vedana suffering or to be suffered Pv III.106 (=anubhuyam¤na PvA 214).