tittha : [nt.] a fording or landing place; a harbour; a belief.
Tittha (nt.) [Vedic tīrtha, from *ter, tarate, to pass through, orig. passage (through a river), ford] 1. a fording place, landing place, which made a convenient bathing place D ii.89=Vin i.230 (Gotama˚ the G. ford); J i.339, 340 (titthāraṇa); ii.111; iii.228 (˚nāvika ferryman); 230 (nāvā˚ a ferry); iv.379; Pv ii.120; iii.64; iv.122 (su˚); Dāvs. v.59 (harbour). Titthaŋ jānāti to know a "fording place," i. e. a means or a person to help over a difficulty or doubt M i.223=A v.349 (neg.) 2. a sect (always with bad connotation. Promising to lead its votaries over into salvation, it only leads them into error).
-- âyatana the sphere or fold of a sect (cp. titthiya) Vin i.60, 69; ii.279; M i.483; A i.173; Pug 22; Dhs 381, 1003 (cp. Dhs. trsl. p. 101n); DA i.118; Ledi Sadaw in J.P.T.S. 1913, 117 -- 118; -- kara a "ford -- maker," founder of a sect D i.47, 116; M i.198; Sn pp. 90, 92; Miln 4, 6, etc.; -- ññutā knowledge of a ford, in fig. sense of titthaŋ jānāti (see above) Nett 29, 80.