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loluppa

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Loluppa (nt.) [abstr. fr. lolupa] greediness, covetousness, self -- indulgence, desire; in the language of the Abhidhamma often syn. with jappā or taṇhā. At DhsA 365 loluppa is treated as an adj. & expld at "punappuna visaye lumpati ākaḍḍhatī ti," i. e. one who tears again & again at the object (or as Expos.ii.470: repeated plundering, hauling along in the fields of sense). -- J i.340, 429; DhsA 365; Vism 61; & with exegetical synonyms loluppāyanā & loluppāyitattaŋ at Dhs 1059, 1136.