1. skin (human or animal; either skin generally, or, in contradiction to chavi, the inner layer of skin, the hypoderma.
2. the flayed skin of an animal, leather.
3. the parchment sounding board of the …

…in expr. like aṭṭhi-cammanahāru-matta (skin & bones) Pv-a.68, see under nahāru camma-maṃsa-nahāru…

sword and shield

piece of leather used for sitting upon.

leather worker; a shoe maker.

flat leather thong?

struck with a piercing of the skin.

bound or covered with skin; a drum.

soldier who wears leather armor or is armed with a shield.

soldier who wears leather armor or is armed with a shield.

sheep’s skin; goat’s skin

armed with the shield of forbearance.

…sibbitvā katā paveṇi DN-a.i.87); AN.i.181.

• -sāṭī a garment of skins (= ajina-camma-sāṭī Dhp-a.iv.156) Dhp.394 = Ja.i.481 =…

…unknown. In late Sk. alagarda is a…

…-gatta. For allacamma at Dhp-a.iv.132 alagadda-camma, with the variant reading, is preferable].

Vedic ārdra, to Gr. α…

…(asinā pahaṭa).

• -camma sword & shield Vin.ii.192; AN.iii.93; Ja.vi.449
• -tharu the hilt of a sword…

…of bones Dhp-a.i.387

• -camma bones and skin Ja.ii.339; Dhp-a.iii.43; Pv-a.68
• -taca id. Ja.ii.295. *…

…bhasta & explains as “camma-pasibbaka”) Ja.iii.346 (sattu˚ = sattu pasibbaka flour sack); Ja.v.45 Thag-a.212 (udaka˚)….

…by Bdhgh as “biḷāra-camma-pasibbako”); Thag.1138. At both passages in similes.

etym. uncertain, prob. a loan-word; cp. late Sk….

skin Bv.ii.52.

…corium) SN.ii.238 (see camma); also in combination ch-cammamaṃsa Vism.235; Dhp-a.iv.56.

*…

…tiger Vin.i.186 dīpicamma a leopard skin = Sk. dvīpicarman); AN.iii.101; Ja.i.342; Ja.ii.44, Ja.ii.110; Ja.iv.475; Ja.v.408; Ja.vi.538….

…digested“ DN.ii.127; sīhacammaṃ ādāya agamaṃsu “they took the lion’s skin away with them” Ja.ii.110 itthiṃ pahāya gamissati shall…

Khara¹

1. (adj.) rough, hard, sharp; painful DN.ii.127 (ābādha); Ja.iii.26 (vedanā) Mil.26 (+ sakkhara-kaṭhala-vālikā), Pv-a.152 (loma, shaggy hair; cp. Np. Khara-loma-yakkha Vism.208 …

…nt.) a broken piece, a bit, camma˚ a strip of hide Vin.ii.122; coḷa˚ a bit of cloth Pv-a.70; pilotika˚ bits of rags Pv-a.171; pūva˚ a bit…

…Pv-a.44; lohita-maṃsa˚ (of Yakkhas) Ja.i.133, Ja.i.266; camma˚ Ja.i.176; gūtha˚ (of a Peta) Pv-a.266.

at Ja.vi.454 is explained by camma-kāra, thus “worker in leather (-shields or armour),” with der. fr konta (“satthitāya kontāya…

…7 kāyas at Ja.ii.91, viz. camma˚ dāru˚, loha˚, ayo˚, vāluka˚, udaka˚, phalaka˚, or “bodies” (great masses, substances) of skin, wood…

cat Mil.23
■ f. majjārī (majjāri˚) Vin.i.186 (˚camma cat’s skin) Dhp-a.i.48; Pgdp.49.

cp. Epic Sk. mārjāra; dialectical

…Vin.i.25 (in sequence chavi, camma, maṃsa, nahāru, aṭṭhi, miñjā); Vism.235 (id.); Kp iii. (aṭṭhi˚, f. cp. Kp-a.52, nt.); Ja.iv.402…

…a kind of vessel, only in camma˚; leather bag (?) Ja.vi.431 (where variant reading reads camma-pasibbakāhi vālukādīhi), Ja.vi.432 (gloss…

…(rathavarattaṃ); Bv.i.31 (camma˚, of a drum); Mhvs.vii.16 (˚pañcāyudha) Mil.117 (yuga˚); Dhs-a.131. Cp. onaddha, vi˚, san˚.

Sk. naddha…

…(nh˚) Pv-a.68 (aṭṭhi-camma˚), Pv-a.80 (camma-maṃsa˚); Sdhp.46 Sdhp.103.

Sk. snāyu, Idg. *sné to sew, cp. Gr. νέω, νήχω,…

…thong Ja.i.175 (rathassa cammañ ca nandiñ ca); Snp.622 = Dhp.398 (+ varatta) Snp-a.400; Dhp-a.i.44, Dhp-a.iv.160.

Sk. naddhrī to naddha,…

…(nh˚) Pv-a.68 (aṭṭhi-camma˚), Pv-a.80 (camma-maṃsa˚); Sdhp.46 Sdhp.103.

Sk. snāyu, Idg. *sné to sew, cp. Gr. νέω, νήχω,…

…the skin off Ja.iii.281. niccamma-gāvī “a skinless cow,” used in a well-known simile at SN.ii.99, referred to at Vism.341 & Vism.463.

Sk….

…of bat) Bdhgh on ulūka-camma at Vin.i.186 (MV. Vin.v.2, 4; cp. Vin. Texts ii.16 where read ulūka˚ for lūka?); Ja.vi.538; and -hata one…

…as phalasata at Ja.vi.454 (explained as phalasata-camma C.) See palāsata.

according to Trenckner, Notes…

adj. nt. wrapping, surrounding, encircling, encumbrance Ja.iv.436; Pp.34; Vism.353 (˚camma); Dhs-a.366.

fr. pari + veṣṭ.

Parikantati¹

to wind round, twist Ja.iii.185 (pāso pādaṃ p.; but taken by C. as parikantati² explained as “cammādīni chindanto samantā kantati”).

pari + kantati¹

P …

…Ja.iii.116 Ja.iii.343 (camma˚ leather bag); Ja.iv.52, Ja.iv.361; Ja.v.46 (pūpa˚) Ja.v.483; Ja.vi.432 (spelling pasippaka); DN-a.i.41;…

…elliptical for paṭibhinna-camma, i.e. piercing the skin so as to go right through (to the opp. side) which falls in with the C. explⁿ…

…at Pv.iii.1#13 (explained as cammakārin Pv-a.175). As Npl. name of one of the 7 Great Lakes in the Himālaya (Rathakāradaha), e.g. at Vism.416;…

…at Ja.v.438.

• -camma lion’s hide AN.iv.393.
• -tela “lion-oil,” a precious oil Kp-a.198 *…

…skin, hide (similar to camma, denoting the thick outer skin, as contrasted with chavi, thin skin, see chavi & cp….

…it a beaver- Vin.i.186 (˚camma otter-skin, used for sandals); Cp.i.10#2 (˚pota); Ja.iii.51 sq., Ja.iii.335. The names of two otters at…

an owl Vin.i.186 (˚camma, sandals of owl’s skin); Vin.iii.34; AN.v.289 sq.; Ja.ii.208, Ja.ii.352 (as king of the birds); Mil.403; Dhp-a.i.50…

…Ja.vi.136; Pp.56 Vism.153 (˚camma, in simile); Dhp-a.i.396; Snp-a.226, Snp-a.333 Kp-a.144; Pv-a.163; Vv-a.85
■ The comp^n.…

…(dussa˚) Ja.v.73 (camma˚); Mhvs.11, Mhvs.15. 5. a sheath, bag, pod Ja.iii.366 (tiṇa˚); Mhvs.26, Mhvs.17 (marica˚ red pepper pod)…

…bheri); Vism.1 (= jaṭita saṃsibbita).

pp. of…

…(phānita˚).

cp. Sk. vāra &…

…(= khara-samphassaṃ cammaṃ Snp-a.302), also as Khara-loma “Rough-hair” Vism.208; Khara- dāṭhika “Rough-tooth”…

warrior; camma˚; a warrior in cuirass, a certain army grade DN.i.51; AN.iv.107.

= yodha

…Ja.i.464; Ja.ii.247 (camma˚); Ja.iv.82; Ja.v.45 (cammay- varatta), Ja.v.47; Vism.269; Dhp-a.i.205; Snp-a.137. As dhura-yotta at…

…i.e. yathā manussā allacammaṃ bhūmiyaṃ pattharitvā khīlehi ākoṭenti, evaṃ ākoṭetvā pharasūhi phāḷetvā ekam ekaṃ…

…Snp.684, Snp.696; āsabha-camma bull’s hide Ja.vi.453 (variant reading usabha˚).

• -ṭṭhāna (as āsabhaṇṭhāna) “bull’s…