སྔོན་

JH-ENG

prior; previous; former

JH-OE

{C}first; formerly; before; first of all; up to now; so far; in the past; previously described; of the past

JH-SKT, YOGA

pUrvaka. pUrva

JH-SKT

{L,C,MSA,MV}*; {C}purvaMkara; {C}pUrvam (=*); {C}paurvaka

YOGA

paurANa

JV, RY

once

JV

former, front, ahead, formerly, of old, anciently, before, previously, above, SA གོང་, སྔན་, *

IW

1) previous, prior to, former[ly], earlier, preceding, 1st, before, ancient

RY

Long ago,. *, in the past; x {sngon gro byin skyes la kun dga' bos sgom bslabs pa} *, in the past, Ananda was teaching Shrona to meditate. 

1) Abbr. of སྔོན་མ་,  སྔོན་དུ་; previous, prior to, formerly, earlier, preceding, first, before, former, *, * upon a time; past, prior, anterior, antecedent, foregoing, precedent. 

2) Abbr. of སྔོན་པོ་; bluish color, blue. long ago,. a very long time ago. formerly, before, previously, beforehand. Many generation past,. Once there were. in the distant past,