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macchariyena

macchariya

nt instr sg of macchariya (noun)

1. selfishness; stinginess; meanness; tight-fistedness (regarding); lit. envy state

Etymology. macchara + iya; Sanskrit mātsarya, matsara

Meanings from the Digital Pāḷi Dictionary; morphology and etymology by Claude.

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