Suttanipātaに見られるkāmaの両義性について

抄録

Conventional translation assigns two meanings to kāma in the Suttanipāta, ‘desire’ and ‘the objects of pleasure’. In this study, I analyze these two meanings, the two sides of kāma, as follows. On one side is the mechanism of the person wanting something, and on the other side are the things made into wanted objects by this mechanism. Based on this reasoning, I inspect the meaning ascribed to kāma in every instance in the Suttanipāta.

Based on this, I found that most uses of the word kāma in the Suttanipāta indicated things were considered objects of desire through the mechanism of wanting something. In addition, I found that this meaning is related to kāma used in the plural form.