Pamāṇa (nt.) [of pa+mā, Vedic pramāṇa] 1. measure, size, amount S ii.235; A i.88; iii.52, 356 sq.; v.140 sq.; Miln 285 (cp. trsl. ii.133, n. 2); SnA 137; VvA 16; PvA 55 (ghaṭa˚), 70 (ekahattha˚), 99 (tālakkhandha˚), 268 (sīla˚). -- 2. measure of time, compass, length, duration PvA 136 (jīvitaŋ paricchinna ˚ŋ); esp. in cpd. āyu˚ age S i.151; A i.213; ii.126 sq. and passim (cp. āyu). -- 3. age (often by Com. taken as "worldly characteristic," see below rūpa˚ and cp. Nd2 406 on Sn 1076); DhA i.38. -- 4. limit PvA 123, 130 (dhanassa). -- 5. (appld meaning) standard, definition, description, dimension S iv.158≈Sn 1076 (perhaps ("age"). pamāṇaŋ karoti set an example DhA iii.300 (maŋ p. katvā). -- adj. ( -- ˚) of characteristic, of the character of, measuring or measured by, taking the standard of, only in cpd. rūpa˚ measuring by (appearance or) form, or held in the sphere of form (defined or Pug A 229 as "rūpa -- ppamāṇ' ādisu sampattiyuttaŋ rūpaŋ pamāṇaŋ karotī ti") A ii.71=Pug 53; Nd2 406. -- appamāṇa without a measure, unlimited, immeasurable, incomparable D i.31; ii.12 (+uḷāra); M iii.145 (ceto -- vimutti); A i.183, 192; ii.73; iii.52; v.299 sq., 344 sq.; Sn 507; PvA 110 (=atula). See also appamāṇa.
   -- kata taken as standard, set as example, being the measure, in phrase p. -- kataŋ kammaŋ D i.251; S iv.322.