Asavas

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£savas

The Corruptions, The Cankers, The Effluents

WP: The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, Translated by Bhikkhu Nanamoli and Bhikkhu Bodhi, All the Taints, pp 91

PTS: The Collection of The Middle Length Sayings, Translated by I.B. Horner, Discourse on All the Cankers, pp8

PTS: The Book of the Gradual Sayings, III, v (75): The Warrior, Hare, trans., pp76

PTS: The Book of the Kindred Sayings, V, The Great Chapter, Kindred Sayings on the Way, iii: Asava, Woodward, trans., pp45

£savas (1st 3 older than 4th)
Pali	MO	Hare	Horner	Punnaji	Bodhi	Nanamoli	Rhys Davids	(Mrs)Rhys Davids	Thanissaro	Walshe	Woodward
£savas	No-Goods (Sa Va? No!)	Cankers	Cankers	influences, inate impulses, compulsion	taints	taints	intoxicants, poisons	intoxicants, poisons	fermentations	corruptions	asavas
k¤m¤sava	PleasureSeeking	lust	sense pleasure	sense pleasure	craving for sense pleasure, sensual desire	craving for sense pleasure, sensual desire	sensuality	sensuality	sensuality	sense desire	sensual delight
bhavasava	living	becomings	becoming	urge for existance, being	craving for being	craving for being	future life, becoming	future life, becoming	becoming	becoming	becoming
avijj¤sava	blindness	ignorance	ignorance	unconsciousness	ignorance	ignorance	ignorance	ignorance	ignorance	ignorance	nescience
diÂÂh¤sava	View, View Theories, Perspectives, Hypotheses	view	view	Perspective	view	view	erroneous opinion, view	eroneous opinion, view	view	views	view

**Pali Text Society, Pali English Dictionary (edited entry):**
£sava: that which flows (out or on to) outflow and influx. 1. spirit, the intoxicating extract or secretion of a tree or flower, O. C. in Vin IV.110 (four kinds); B. on D III.182 (five kinds).... - 2. discharge from a sore, A I.124, 127.... - 3. in psychology, t.t. for certain specified ideas which intoxicate the mind (bemuddle it, befoozle it, so that it cannot rise to higher things). Freedom from the "¤savas" constitutes Arahantship, and the fight for the extinction of these ¤savas forms one of the main duties of man.... - The 4 ¤savas are k¤m-, bhav-, diÂÂh-, avijj-, i. e. sensuality, rebirth (lust of life), speculation and ignorance. - They are mentioned as such at D II.81, 84, 91, 94, 98, 123, 126; A I.165 sq., 196; II.211; III.93, 414; IV.79.... - The set of 3, which is probably older (k¤ma-, bhava-, avijj¤-) occurs at M I. 55; A I.165; III.414; S IV.256; V.56, 189.... Referring specially to the extinction (khaya) of the ¤savas and to Arahantship following as a result are the foll. passages: (1) ¤sav¤naµ khaya D I.156; S II.29, 214; III 57, 96 sq, 152 sq; IV.105, 175; V.92, 203, 220, 271, 284; A I.107 sq., 123 sq., 232 sq., 273, 291; II.6, 36, 44 sq., 149 sq., 214; III 69, 114, 131, 202, 306, 319 sq.; IV.83 sq., 119, 140 sq., 314 sq.; V.10 sq., 36, 69, 94 sq, 105, 132, 174 sq., 343 sq.... - (2) kh¨¼¤sava (adj.) one whose ¤savas are destroyed... S I.13, 48, 53, 146; II 83, 239; III.199, 128, 178; IV.217; A I 77, 109, 241, 266; IV.120, 224, 370 sq.; V 40, 253 sq.... - (3) an¤sava (adj.) one who is free from the ¤savas, an Arahant Vin II.148 = 164; D III.112; S I 130; II.214, 222; III.83; IV.128; A I.81, 107 sqQ, 123 sq., 273, 291; II.6, 36, 87, 146; III.19, 29, 114, 166; IV.98, 140 sq., 314 sq., 400; A V.10 sqQ, 36, 242, 340....