āyatana

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀆𑀬𑀢𑀦 (Brahmi script)
• आयतन (Devanagari script)
• আযতন (Bengali script)
• ආයතන (Sinhalese script)
• အာယတန or ဢႃယတၼ (Burmese script)
• อายตน or อายะตะนะ (Thai script)
• ᩋᩣᨿᨲᨶ (Tai Tham script)
• ອາຍຕນ or ອາຍະຕະນະ or ອາຢະຕະນະ (Lao script)
• អាយតន (Khmer script)
• 𑄃𑄂𑄠𑄖𑄚 (Chakma script)

Noun

āyatana n

1. sphere
2. region
3. sense-organ
4. sensed object
   • 2017 July 19, Vinodh Rajan, Ben Mitchell, Martin Jansche, Sascha Brawer, “Proposal to Encode Lao Characters for Pali (revised)”, in Unicode Document Register L2017/17106r‎^[1] (PDF), page 20:

     ຣູປາຍະຕະນັງ ສັທຘາຍະຕະນັງ
     ຆັນຘາຍະຕະນັງ ຣະສາຍະຕະນັງ ໂຜຏຖັພພາຍະຕະນັງ ມະໂນຘາຕຸຍາ
     ຕັງ ສັມປະຍຸຕຕະການັຎຈະ ຘັມມານັງ ອະວິຄະຕະປັຈຈະເຍນະ ປັຈ
     ຈະໂຍ

     rūpāyatanaṃ saddhāyatanaṃ ghandhāyatanaṃ rasāyatanaṃ phoṭthabbāyatanaṃ manodhātuyā taṃ sampayuttakānañca dhammānaṃ avigatapaccayena paccayo

     Visible object, sound, odour, taste, and tangible object are the cause of the factors of the mind-element and its concomitants via the non-disappearance condition

5. position

Declension

Declension table of "āyatana" (neuter)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	āyatanaṃ	āyatanāni
Accusative (second)	āyatanaṃ	āyatanāni
Instrumental (third)	āyatanena	āyatanehi or āyatanebhi
Dative (fourth)	āyatanassa or āyatanāya or āyatanatthaṃ	āyatanānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)	āyatanasmā or āyatanamhā or āyatanā	āyatanehi or āyatanebhi
Genitive (sixth)	āyatanassa	āyatanānaṃ
Locative (seventh)	āyatanasmiṃ or āyatanamhi or āyatane	āyatanesu
Vocative (calling)	āyatana	āyatanāni

Derived terms

• cakkhāyatana (“organ or sense of sight”)

References

Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “āyatana”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead