Unrul3r wrote:Hello everybody!
I'm wondering what would be your thoughts on these two words: Passanā and Dassanā
They correspond to the verbs 'passati' and 'dakkhati' ('dassati').
"Passanā" is used only as a part of "anupassanā" and "vipassanā".
Both of them seem to point to "seeing" but, from Sanskrit, dassanā seems closer to "showing, exhibiting, appearance".
AFAIK, in Sanskrit the 'dar"s' and 'pa"s' are interchangeable forms of the same verb.
In Pali there's also a form 'dasseti' - 'show, make appear', similar to Sanskrit, but that's just a causative form.
Margaret Cone's Pali dictionary lists both 'passati' and 'dakkhati' under the verb root 'dis'.