Pitta (nt.) [cp. Vedic pitta] 1. the bile, gall; the bile also as seat of the bilious temperament, excitement or anger. Two kinds are distinguished at KhA 60= Vism 260, viz. baddha˚ & abaddha˚, bile as organ & bile as fluid. See also in detail Vism 359; VbhA 65, 243. -- In enumerations of the parts or affections of the body pitta is as a rule combd with semha (cp. Vin ii.137; Kh 111; Vism 260, 344; Miln 298). -- Vin ii.137; M iii.90; S iv.230, 231 (+semha); A ii.87; iii.101, 131; Sn 198 (+semha), 434 (id., expld as the two kinds at SnA 388); Nd1 370; J i.146 (+semha); ii.114 (pittan te kupitaŋ your bile is upset or out of order, i. e. you are in a bad mood); Miln 112 (vāta -- pittasemha . . .), 304 (roga,+semha), 382 (+semha); DhsA 190 (as blue -- green); DhA iii.15 (cittaŋ n' atthi pittaŋ n' atthi has no heart and no bile, i. e. does not feel & get excited; vv. ll. vitta & nimitta). -- 2. [according to Morris, J.P.T.S. 1893, 4 for *phitta=phīta, Sk. sphīta] swelling, a gathering Vinii.188 (Vin. Texts iii.237 "a burst gall, i. e. bladder"); S ii.242. The passage is not clear, in C. on Ud i.7 we read cittaŋ, see Morris loc. cit. May the meaning be "muzzle"?

 -- kosaka gall -- bladder KhA 61; Vism 263; VbhA 246.