Bhāga [cp. Vedic bhāga, fr. bhaj, bhajati] 1. part, portion, fraction, share Vin i.285; Sn 427 (sahassa -- bhāgo maraṇassa=sahassaŋ bhāgānaŋ assā ti SnA 387; a thousand times a share of death, i. e. very near death, almost quite dead), 702 (v. l. SnA 492 for Sn samāna -- bhāva, evenness, proportionate -- ness); Vv 146 (=kummāsa -- koṭṭhāsa VvA 62); Pv i.115 (aḍḍhi˚ one half); Vin iv.264. -- Cp. vi˚. -- bhāgaso (abl. -- adv.) in parts, by parts, by portions, esp. in even portions, i. e. evenly, in proportion S i.193 (according to each one's share; cp. Th 1, 1242); M iii.183; Vv 72; Miln 330, 415 (aneka˚ hundredfold or more). bhāgaso mita (of cities or dwelling -- places etc.) evenly planned, well laid out, i. e. in squares Sn 300, 305 (nivesanāni suvibhattāni bhāgaso); J v.266 (cp. C. on p. 272)=Nd2 304iii. d; Pv i.1013 (=bhāgato mita PvA 52). -- bhāgabhatta apportioned food, ration DhA i.134. -- Cp. dobbhagga"disproportionateness," i. e. bad luck. -- 2. apportioned share (of money), fee, remuneration, always in term ācariya˚ (ācariyassa) the teacher's fee (usually consisting in 1,000 kahāpaṇas) J i.273; v.457; vi.178; Miln 10; DhA i.253. -- 3. division of space, quarter, side, place, region: disā˚ quarter of the compass Vin ii.217; para˚ outside part KhA 206 =PvA 24 (kuḍḍānaŋ parabhāgā=tiro -- kuḍḍā); pacchābhāgaŋ (acc. adv.) at the back part, behind PvA 114. -- fig. way, respect, in ubhato -- bhāga -- vimutta "free in both ways" D ii.71; M i.477 (see Dial ii.70; i. e. free both by insight and by the intellectual discipline of the 8 stages of Deliverance, the aṭṭha vimokkhā). -- 4. division of time, time, always -- ˚, e. g. pubba˚ the past, apara˚ the future PvA 133; obl. cases adverbially: tena divasa -- bhāgena (+ratti bhāgena) at that day (& that very night) Miln 18; apara -- bhāge (loc.) in future J i.34; PvA 116.