Lohita (adj. -- nt.) [cp. Vedic lohita & rohita; see also P. rohita "red"] 1. (adj.) red: rarely by itself (e. g. M ii.17), usually in cpds. e. g. ˚abhijāti the red species (q. v.) A iii.383; ˚kasiṇa the artifice of red D iii.268; A i.41; Dhs 203; Vism 173; ˚candana red sandal (unguent) Miln 191. Otherwise rohita. -- 2. (nt.) blood; described in detail as one of the 32 ākāras at KhA 54 sq.; Vism 261, 360; VbhA 245. -- Vin i.203 (āmaka˚), 205 (˚ŋ mocetuŋ); A iv.135 (saṭṭhi -- mattānaŋ bhikkhūnaŋ uṇhaŋ l. mukhato uggañchi; cp. the similar passage at Miln 165); Sn 433; Pv i.67; i.91 (expld as ruhira PvA 44); Vism 261 (two kinds; sannicita˚ and saŋsaraṇa˚), 409 (the colour of the heartblood in relation to states of mind); VbhA 66; PvA 56, 78, 110.

 -- akkha having red (blood -- shot) eyes (of snakes & yakkhas) Vv 522 (cp. VvA 224: ratta -- nayanā; yakkhānaŋ hi nettāni ati -- lohitāni honti); J vi.180. -- uppāda (the crime of) wounding A Tathāgata, one of the anantariya -- kammas VbhA 427; cp. Tathāgatassa lohitaŋ uppādeti Miln 214. -- uppādaka one who sheds the blood of an Arahant Vin i.89, 136, 320; v.222.-- kumbhi a receptacle for blood Ud 17 (with ref. to the womb). -- doṇi a bloody trough Vism 358; VbhA 62. -- pakkhandikā (or ˚pakkhandik' ābādha) bloody diarrhoea, dysentery M i.316; D ii.127; Ud 82; J ii.213; Miln 134, 175; DhA iii.269. -- homa a sacrifice of blood D i.9; DA i.93.