අෂ්ට සමාපත්ති, n. pl. B., the eight attainments, or the four meditations (see ධ්‍යානය) and the four endeavours (ආයතන), which are ආකාසා නංචායතනය, විඤ්ඤාණංචායතනය, ආකිචංඤ්ඤායත නය and නේවසංඤ්ඤාණසඤ්ඤායතනය: see each one.

ආකාශය, ආකාසය, n. sky, අහස, atmosphere, පවන.

ආකාසානන්දචායතනය, n. (ආයතන) the first Brahma world, where the inhabitants live twenty thousand kalpas in an incorporeal state.

ආකාසෝ කසින, n. P., ascetic observance or attainment so called, viz, fixing the mind exclusively upon the element of air. See පරිකසින.

පරි·කසිණ, n. (පරි around, කසිණ all), an observance and attainment of ascetics preparatory to the performance of ධ්‍යාන: it consists of one of the following, viz. තේජෝකසිණ, ආ පෝකසිණ, ආකාසෝකසිණ or පඨවිකසිණ. The mind and all its faculties must be so concentrated upon its object that nothing else is perceptible to the senses. See each one of the four.