…Pv-a.131 (kaṭacchu˚); bhikkhāya carati to go out begging food [cp. Sk. bhaikṣaṃ carati] Ja.iii.82 Ja.v.75; Pv-a.51 & passim
■…

digging.

digs up.

repeatedly, again and again; constantly.

constantly ailing

alms given on a spoon, a spoonful of food

brought, offered, presented, fetched DN.i.166 = Pp.55 (= puretaraṃ gahetvā āhaṭaṃ bhikkhaṃ Pp-a.231); Dhp-a.ii.79.

pp. of abhiharati

Abhikkhaṇa¹

neuter digging up of the ground MN.i.143.

fr. abhikkhanati

Abhikkhaṇa²

neuter abhiṇha* only as acc. adv. ˚ṃ constantly, repeated, often Vv.24#1 …

to dig up MN.i.142.

abhi + khaṇati

adverb repeatedly, continuous, often MN.i.442 (˚āpattika a habitual offender), MN.i.446 (˚kāraṇa continuous practice); Snp.335 (˚saṃvāsa continuous living together); Ja.i.190; Pp.32; Dhp-a.ii.239; Vv …

˚- too often Ja.v.233 (˚saṃsagga; C. explains ativiya abhiṇha).

ati + abhikkhaṇa

beggar, mendicant SN.i.182 (bh. brāhmaṇa) Ja.vi.59 (variant reading BB. ˚uka); Vb-a.327.

fr. bhikkhu, Cp. Epic Sk. bhikṣuka & f. bhikṣukī

to beg alms, to beg, to ask for SN.i.176, SN.i.182 (so read for T. bhikkhavo); Dhp.266 Vb-a.327
ppr med. bhikkhamāna Thig.123.

cp. Vedic bhikṣate, old desid. to bhaj; de …

…ti bh., bhikkhako ti bh., bhikkhācariyaṃ ajjhupagato ti bh., bhinna-paṭa-dharo ti bh., bhindati pāpake dhamme ti bh., bhinnattā…

…Ja.ii.272 (bhikkhā˚); Ja.iii.366 (id.), Ja.iii.471; Ja.v.293 (bhatta˚); Mil.107; Vv-a.40, Vv-a.292 (variant reading bhojana);…

…to the village) Snp.386 bhikkhāya c. id. Ja.iii.82
■ With acc. (in etymol constr.) to undertake, set out for, undergo, or simply to…

…begging Ja.ii.272 Ja.iii.37; bhikkhā˚ a life of begging Snp.700; nagga˚ nakedness Dhp.141
■ See also carati 2^b. In compounds…

Du˚¹

(& before vowels dur˚) indeclinable

1. syllable of exclamation (= duḥ “bad, woe” (beginning the word du (j)-jīvitaṃ) Dhp-a.ii.6, Dhp-a.ii.10 = Pv-a.280, cp. Ja.iii.47; Bdhgh’s …

see bhikkhā.

…only in phrase “dubbhikkhā d setaṭṭhikā salākavuttā,” of a famine Vin.iii.6, Vin.iii.15, Vin.iii.87 Vin.iv.23; SN.iv.323. On…

…Vin.ii.216 (bhikkhā˚), Vin.ii.289 (khīrassa)
■ adāyaka a stingy person, one who neglects almsgiving (cp. adānasīla)…

…Vin.ii.216 (bhikkhā˚), Vin.ii.289 (khīrassa)
■ adāyaka a stingy person, one who neglects almsgiving (cp. adānasīla)…

come, come here Snp.165; Ja.ii.159; Ja.vi.367); Dhp-a.i.49. In the later language part. of exhortation = Gr. α ̓́γε, Lat. age, “come on” Dhp-a.ii.91; Pv-a.201 (+ tāva = α ̓́γεδή). *[ehipassika](/d …

to go, go to, reach; often (= ā + eti) to come back, return Snp.364, Snp.376, Snp.666 (come); Ja.vi.365 (return); ppr. ento Ja.iii.433 (acc. suriyaṃ atthaṃ entaṃ the setting sun); imper 2^{nd</s …}

…Thig.422 (= Thag-a.269: bhikkhā-kapāla).

to ghaṭa¹

Ghaṭikā²

feminine

1. a small stick, a piece of a branch a…

(poet.) fire AN.iii.347 (mahāgini); Snp.18 Snp.19 (āhito → nibbuto: made → extinguished); Ja.iv.26. Note. The occurrence of two phonetic representatives of one Vedic form (one by diaeresis & one by …

adjective noun difficult to pass, scil. magga, a difficult road, waste land, wilderness, explained as nirudaka īriṇa Vv-a.334 (on Vv.84#3), combined with maru˚ Pv-a.99 and marukantāramagga Pv-a.112 …

…ladle Vin.ii.118

• -bhikkhā “ladle-begging,” i.e. the food given with a ladle to a bhikkhu when he calls at a…

1. to dig (? better “destroy”; cp. Kern

   Toevoegselen

   s. v.), dig out uproot Dhp.247, Dhp.337; Snp.p.101; Ja.ii.295; Ja.iv.371, Ja.iv.373 Sdhp.394. Also khanati & cp.; *[ …

to desire.

1. Objective: pleasantness, pleasure-giving, an object of sensual enjoyment.
2. Subjective: (a) enjoyment, pleasure on occasion of sense, (b) sense-desire.

Buddhist commentators exp …

…(pattha-pattha-mūlakā bhikkhā); Dhp-a.iii.296 (kiṃ mūlakaṃ how dear?).

2. (nt.) = mūla, i.e. root bulb, radish, only in cpd….

…SN.i.78 SN.i.82 (˚bhikkhā); AN.i.205 sq. (˚uposatha), cp. AN.i.220; AN.ii.196 (˚sāvaka); AN.iii.276, AN.iii.383; AN.v.150 (dasahi…

…Ja.i.149 Ja.ii.153 iv.364 (˚bhikkhā, in sense of nikkhāmita˚, variant reading nikkhitta˚ perhaps preferable, explained p. 366 nibaddha˚…

…(opp. āmaka); SN.iv.324 (˚bhikkhā); Snp.576; Ja.v.286
■ nt. pakkaṃ that which is ripe, i.e. a fruit, ripe fruit Pp.44, Pp.45; often…

adjective that which is prone, going prone; DN-a.i.23 where the passage is “tiracchāna-gata-pāṇāpoṇika-nikāyo cikkhallika-nikāyo ti,” quoted from SN.iii.152, where it runs thus: “tiracchāna-gata …

crushed, oppressed, molested, harassed Vin.iv.261; Vism.415 (dubbhikkha˚); Dhp-a.iv.70 Thag-a.271. Cp. abhi˚, pa˚.

pp. of pīḷeti

…AN.i.160; Kp-a.218 (= dubbhikkhā).

• -uddharaṇa lifting the corn Mil.307.
• -ghāta…

derivation & meaning very doubtful; Bdhgh’s explⁿ at Pp-a 231 is not to be taken as reliable, viz. “sankittetvā katabhattesu hoti. dubbhikkha-samaye kira acela-kāsāvakā acelakānaṃ atthāy …

Su¹

indeclinable a part. of exclamation “shoo!”; usually repeated su su Ja.ii.250; Ja.vi.165 (of the hissing of a snake); Thag-a.110 (scaring somebody away), Thag-a.305 (sound of puffi …

…web Cnd.260.

• -bhikkhā begging for thread Pv-a.145.
• -maya made of threads, i.e. a net…

num. card. three.

■ nom. acc. m. tayo (Snp.311), & tayas (tayas; su dhammā Snp.231, see Kp-a.188)
■ f. tisso (DN.i.143; AN.v.210; Iti.99)
■ nt. tīṇi (AN.i.1 …

…odissa & odissaka) Vin.i.237 (maṃsa); Vin.ii.163; DN.i.166 = AN.i.295 = Pp.55 (viz. bhikkhā); MN.i.77; Kp-a.222; Ja.ii.262, Ja.ii.263…

…= Pv.iv.7#3 (= uñchena bhikkhācārena laddhe pattagate āhāre rato Pv-a.265; translated in Psalms of Brethren “contented with whatever…

…= Pv.iv.7#3 (= uñchena bhikkhācārena laddhe pattagate āhāre rato Pv-a.265; translated in Psalms of Brethren “contented with whatever…

1. going, proceeding Ja.vi.415 (+ ayāna, opposed to ṭhāna).
2. means of motion, carriage, vehicle. Different kinds of carriages are enumerated at Mnd.145 (on Snp.816) with hatthi˚; (elephant-), *g …