Atthavasa Vagga.-The seventeenth chapter of the Duka Nipāta of the Anguttara Nikāya (A.i.98-100). It deals with the aims behind the Buddha's injunctions to monks with regard to the practice of samatha and vipassanā, to be employed as remedies against lust, etc.

Dictionary of Pali Proper Names, G P Malalasekera (1899-1973), which is available as printed version from