Vedanā (f.) [fr. ved˚: see vedeti; cp. Epic Sk. vedanā] feeling, sensation (see on term, e. g. Cpd. 14 Mrs. Rh. D. B. Psy., ch. iv.) D i.45; ii.58 (cp. Dial. ii.54), 66; iii.58, 77, 221, 228, 238 (˚upādāna); S iii.86 sq.; A i.39, 122, 141; ii.79, 198, 256; iii.245 sq., 450; iv.301, 385; Kh iii. (tisso v.); Sn 435, 529, 739, 1111; Nd1 109; Nd2 551 (tisso v.); Ps i.6, 50 sq., 145 sq., 153 sq.; ii.109 sq., 181 sq.; Vbh 135 sq., 294, 401, 403 sq.; Dhs 3, 1348; Nett 27, 65 sq.; 83, 123, 126; Tikp 246, 317 sq., 345 sq.; Vism 460 sq.; DA i.125; VbhA 13 sq., 39 sq., 80, 178, 193, 221 (˚ânupassanā, in detail), 263 sq., 382 (various). -- Three modes of feeling (usually understood whenever mention is made of "tisso vedanā"): sukhā (pleasant), dukkhā (painful) adukkha -- m -- asukhā (indifferent) D iii.275; S ii.53, 82; iv.207; A iii.400; It 46; Tikp 317 sq. -- or: kusalā, akusalā, avyākatā Vism 460. -- Five vedanās: sukhaŋ, dukkhaŋ, somanassaŋ, domanassaŋ, upekkhā Vism 461. Categories of 2 to 108 modes of Vedanā, S iv.223 sq. -- vedanā is one of the 5 khandhas (see khandha ii.B). -- On relation of old and new sensations (purāṇa˚>nava˚) see e. g. A ii.40; iii.388; iv.167; Vism 33; and see formula under yātrā. -- In the Paṭiccasamuppāda (q. v.) vedanā stands between phassa as condition and taṇhā as result; see e. g. Vism 567 sq. -- 2. (in special application) painful sensation, suffering, pain (i. e. dukkhavedanā) M i.59; A i.153 (sārīrikā bodily pain); ii.116 (id.); iii.143 (id.); Pv i.1015; Miln 253 (kāyikā & cetasikā); VbhA 101 (maraṇ' antikā v. agonies of death). -- vedan' aṭṭa afflicted by pain Vin ii.61; iii.100; J i.293. -- As adj. vedana suffering or to be suffered Pv iii.106 (=anubhūyamāna PvA 214). -- vedana at J iii.349 is to be read as vetana.