A monk whose Theragāthā verse says that one who eats much and is lazy will keep being reborn. Thag.17

Perhaps it is this same Dāsaka who is mentioned in the Saṃyutta Nikāya SN.iii.127ff. as having …

set of ten; a collection of ten, a decad; a section consisting of sets of ten.

decad, decade, a decennial Ja.iv.397; Dhs-a.316. khiḍḍā˚; the decad of play Vism.619; cakkhu etc. sense-decads Vism.553; Comp. 164, 250; kāya˚ Vism.588.

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An arahant. Once, when he lay very ill at the Badarikārāmā, near Kosambī, some monks, staying at the Ghositārāma, sent one of their number, Dāsaka, with a message to Khemaka, inquiring whether he mana …

without a fringe.

set of 14; containing (poems) of 14 verses.

section consisting of sets of ten.

dvādasaka¹

neuter a set of twelve.

dvādasaka²

mf(~ī)n. consisting of twelve.

slaves and servants.

retainer, a vassal.

section dealing with a group or groups of eleven.

mirror.

adjective see dasā.

…nihīlum = ne-fīlum not a thread = nothing) See also dasaka under dasā.

fr. dasā

…(= nisīdana); opp. adasaka (adj.) without a fringe or border Vin.ii.301 = Vin.ii.307 (nisīdana)….

…Snp.926; Pv.iv.1#21.

• -dasaka “the decad of play,” i.e. the second 10 years of man’s life, fr. 11–⁠20 years of age…

…Ja.i.348; Dhs-a.261.

• -dasaka the decade (period) of decline (in life), which in the enum of the 10 decades (vassadasā) at…

1. a son SN.i.210; Snp.35, Snp.38, Snp.60, Snp.557, Snp.858; Dhp.62, Dhp.84 Dhp.228, Dhp.345; Ja.iv.309; Vism.645 (simile of 3 sons); Pv-a.25, Pv-a.63, Pv-a.73 sq.; DN-a.i.157 (dāsaka˚). Four kind …

to cut open, to destroy; fig. to torment: Kern’s proposed reading (see

Toevoegselen

s. v sāveti) for sāveti at Ja.iii.198 (amba-pakkāni); Ja.iv.402 (attānaṃ sāṭetvā dāsakammaṃ …

…(& ˚dasaka) a decade of years: see enumerated at Ja.iv.397. -pūgāni innumerable years Ja.vi.532, cp. Snp.1073….

…Snp.699 & Snp.976); -dasaka tenfold substance or material basis Vb-a.22. -bhūta being an object,…

…vayas with subdivisions into dasakas or decades of life); Mhvs.2, Mhvs.26 (ekūnatiṃso vayasā 29 years of age); Pv-a.5 (paṭhama-vaye when…

…giving beauty AN.ii.64

• -dasaka the ten (years) of complexion or beauty (the 3rd decade in the life of man) Vism.619 Ja.iv.497
• -dāsī…

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