Auddhatya


Auddhatya is a Buddhist term that is translated as "excitement", "restlessness", etc. In the Theravada tradition, uddhacca is defined as a mental factor that is characterized by disquietude, like water whipped by the wind. In the Mahayana tradition, auddhatya is defined as a mental factor that causes our mind to fly off from an object and recollect something else.
Auddhatya is identified as:

Theravada

Bhikkhu Bodhi states:
In the Visuddhimagga gives the following definition of uddhacca:
Nina van Gorkom explains:

Mahayana

The Abhidharma-samuccaya states:
Mipham Rinpoche states:
Alexander Berzin explains:
B. Allan Wallace states:

Alternate translations