Bhava [cp. Sk. bhava, as philosophical term late, but as N. of a deity Vedic; of bhū, see bhavati] "becoming," (form of) rebirth, (state of) existence, a "life." There are 3 states of existence conventionally enumd as kāma˚, rūpa˚, arūpa˚ or sensual existence, deva -- corporeal, & formless existence (cp. rūpa) Dii.57; iii.216; S ii.3; iv.258; A ii.223; iii.444; Nd1 48; Nd2 s. v. dhātu B.; Vism 210=DA i.34; Vism 529; VbhA 204. -- Another view is represented by the division of bhava into kamma˚ and upapatti˚ (uppatti˚), or the active functioning of a life in relation to the fruitional, or resultant way of the next life (cp.Cpd. 43) Vbh 137; Vism 571; VbhA 183; also in def. of bhava at Nd2 471 (kamma˚ and paṭisandhika punabbhava). -- In the "causal chain" (Paṭicca -- samuppāda, q. v.) bhava is represented as condition of birth (jāti), or resultant force for new birth. -- See Sn 361, 514, 742, 839, 923, 1055, 1133; Dh 348; Nd1 274; Vbh 294, 358; Vism 556 sq.; DhA iv.221; Sdhp 33, 333, 335. -- On itibhav'<-> âbhava see iti, and add ref. Vbh 375. -- A remarkable use ofbhava as nt. (obstr.) to bhū (in cpd.) is to be noted in the def. given by Bdhgh. of divya=divi bhavaŋ (for divi -- bhū) KhA 227; SnA 199; and mānasaŋ=manasi bhavaŋ (for manasi -- bhū) KhA 248, cp. Pāṇini iv.3, 53. Similarly āroga bhava health DhA i.328 for ˚bhava. -- Cp. anu˚, vi˚, sam˚.

 -- agga the best (state of) existence, the highest point of existence (among the gods) J iii.84; Vbh 426; Miln 132; KhA 179, 249; SnA 17, 41, 507; often as highest "heaven" as opposed to Avīci, the lowest hell; thus at J iv.182; vi.354; Miln 336. -- anga constituent of becoming, function of being, functional state of subconsciousness, i. e. subliminal consciousness or subconscious life -- continuum, the vital continuum in the absence of any process [of mind, or attention] (thus Mrs. Rh. D. in Expos. 185 n.), subconscious individual life. See on term Cpd. 26 sq., 265 -- 267; & cp. Dhs trsl. 134. -- J vi.82; Miln 299 sq.; Vism 164, 676; DhsA 72, 140, 269; DhA i.23; VbhA 81, 156 sq., 406. -- antaga "gone to the ends of existence," past existence, Ep. of the Bhagavan Buddha Vism 210. -- antara an existence interval, i. e. transition fr. one life to another, a previous or subsequent life Vism 553 sq. -- âbhava this or that life, any form of existence some sort of existence Sn 1060, 1068; Nd1 48, 109, 284; Nd2 472, 664 A; Th 1, 784 (ThA mahantāmahanta bh.) ThA 71 (Ap. v. 30); VbhA 501. -- āsava the intoxicant of existence D iii.216; Vbh 364, 373. -- uppatti coming into (a new) ex. -- Four such bh. -- uppattis lead to rebirth among the foll. gods: the paritt' -- ābhā devā, the appamāṇ'ābhā d., the sankiliṭṭh' -- ābhā d., the parisuddh' -- ābhā d. M iii.147. -- esanā longing for rebirth D iii.216, 270. -- ogha the flood of rebirth (see ogha) Nd1 57, 159; Vism 480. -- cakka the wheel or round of rebirth, equivalent to the Paṭicca -- samuppāda Vism 529, 576 sq.; in the same context at VbhA 138, 194 sq. -- carimakā the last rebirth Vism 291. -- taṇhā craving for rebirth D iii.212, 216, 274; S v.432; Sn 746; Vbh 101, 358, 365; Th 2, 458; ThA 282; VbhA iii.133. -- netti [cp. BSk. bhava -- netrī M. Vastu ii.307; ˚netrika iii.337] leader to renewed ex., guide to ex. Vin i.231; It 38; Dhs 1059≈ (cp. DhsA 364=bhava -- rajju). -- saŋyojana the fetter of rebirth: see arahant II. C. -- salla the sting or dart of rebirth Dh 351 (=sabbāni bhavagāmīni sallāni DhA iv.70). -- sāta (pl. sātāni) the pleasures of ex., variously enumd in sets of from one to six at Nd1 30. -- ssita at J v.371 read with v. l. as ghaṭa -- ssita.