1. (one) who makes or does or produces; the actor (in an action); the perpetrator (of a crime).
2. (one) who performs a service; a servant; a benefactor.

Karaka¹

1. Water-pot, drinking-vessel (= pānīya-bhājana Pv-a.251). It is one of the seven requisites of a samaṇa Vin.ii.302. It is called dhammakaraka there and at Vin.ii.118, Vin.ii. …

(usually -˚) the doer (of): Vin.ii.221 (capu-capu˚); sāsana˚ he who does according to (my) advice Snp.445 Bdhd 85 sq
■ f. kārikā: veyyāvacca˚ a servant Pv-a.65 (text reads ˚tā …

Lohicca¹

A brahmin of Makkarakata in Avanti. Once when Mahā Kaccāna was living there in a forest hut, a number of Lohicca’s pupils came there and began abusing the monks, calling them shav …

MahākaccāyanaKaccāyanaMahākaccānaKaccāna

One of the most eminent disciples of the Buddha, considered chief among expounders in full of the brief saying of the Buddha. AN.i.23 Several suttas illustrat …

A locality in Avanti. Mahā Kaccāna once stayed there in a forest hut and was visited by Lohicca and his pupils. SN.iv.116f.

Avanti3town

A king, ancestor of the Sākyas and the Kolians.

In the Ambaṭṭha Sutta DN.i.92 it is stated that Okkāka, being fond of his queen and wishing to transfer the kingdom to her son, banished from the kingd …

…addresses him as “salt-worker’s boy” (loṇakārakadāraka). AN.ii.182

(-ikā)n.

1. who is not an agent; who is not the perpetrator; innocent.
2. who performs no service; of no use

or masculine dark; or darkness.

one of the parties in a lawsuit

indeclinable making the sound “capucapu”

painter.

water-vessel.

who does what is hard to do.

house-builder, a mason, a carpenter.

(-ikā)n. & m. feminine bringing about contention; quarrelsome; a party to a quarrel

(one) who or which is competent to enact an official act of the saṅgha

one who makes something lawful or acceptable (for bhikkhus or bhikkhunīs, or for other ascetics, e.g. by offering to them things without an owner or by using money to provide robes); one who acts …

ring-pull or wheel (used for drawing water)

body produced by action, the physical body

making the noise “khulukhulu)”; so as to make a rattling noise.

silkworm.

silk weaver.

potter

potter’s pot

the saṅgha which performs a formal act; the enacting saṅgha

who does acts of homage or service

of various kinds.

one who oppresses (others); a bully (?)

making it into lumps; tearing of bits.

…Vin.ii.261.

• -kāraka one who causes dispute discussions or dissent Vin.iv.230 (f. ˚ikā); AN.iii.252. *…

…= Ja.iv.476.

• -kāraka a valuator Ja.i.124.
• -pada valuableness Ja.v.473 (˚lakkhaṇaṃ nāma…

…agent etc. DN.i.107 (= hitakāraka DN-a.i.276) Ja.ii.87 Ja.iii.326;.Ja.iv.230; Ja.vi.369

• -cariyā useful conduct or behaviour DN.iii.152…

to come to, approach, visit (cp. Vedic avagacchati) Pv-a.87. Avaganda (-karaka)

ava + gacchati

Avagaṇḍa (-kāraka)

adjective “making a swelling”, i.e. puffing out the cheeks, stuffing the cheeks full (when eating); only nt. -ṃ as…

Avagaṇḍa (-kāraka)

adjective “making a swelling”, i.e. puffing out the cheeks, stuffing the cheeks full (when eating); only nt. -ṃ as…

adverb throwing away, scattering about Vin.ii.214.

fr. avakāra

…reading valli˚).

• -kāraka offering oblations Ja.i.384.
• -ṅkatā one who offers (the five oblations AN.ii.68. *…

…tiracchāna-kathā).

• -kāraka one who makes talk, i.e. invites disputation or one who gossips Vin.i.1; Mnd.142; f. *…

…Dhp-a.i.244.

• -kāraka one who prepares the meal or food, a cook, butler Ja.i.150 sq.; Ja.v.296; Ja.vi.349;…

…Buddhahood Ja.i.20. -kāraka = ˚kara Mhbv.9. -kāla the time of a B. Vism.91 (Buddhakālo viya…

(or capucapu) a sound made when smacking one’s lips Vin.ii.214 (capucapukāraka adj.), Vin.ii.221; Vin.iv.197.

Dhamma¹

masculine & rarely neuter constitution etc.

A. Definitions by Commentators

Bdhgh gives a fourfold meaning of the word dhamma (at DN-a.i.99; Dhp-a.i.22), viz. 1 guṇe ( …

…life; Com. geha).

• -kāraka a house-builder, metaph. of taṇhā (cp. kāya as geha) Dhp.153, Dhp.154 = Thag.183,…

…pasāda˚ Mhvs.i.4 (= ˚kāraka); a species of karma Vism.601; Cpd. 144 (A.i). 2. n. f -ikā genetrix, mother Ja.i.16; Dhs.1059≈(where…

…Pv-a.243 (= asaddha, akkosakāraka, opp. muduka) Vv-a.138 (= pharusa). 2. cruel, fierce, pitiless Ja.i.187 Ja.i.266;…

…fighting Ja.v.413; -kāraka (f
■ ī quarrelsome, pugnacious AN.iv.196; Vin.i.328; Vin.ii.1…

adjective any indistinct and confused noise Mhbv.23 (of the tramping of an army); in -mukhara sounding confusedly (of the ocean) ibid. 18. Cp karakarā.

cp. Sk. kala

…AN.iv.93 = Ja.ii.348; -kāraka a workman, a servant DN-a.i.8; Mhvs.30, Mhvs.42; Cnd.427 a sailor Ja.iv.139;…

…-kāraka “one who makes it befitting,” i.e. who by offering anything to a Bhikkhu, makes it legally acceptable…

(for kaṭakaṭā, q.v.) adverb by way of gnashing or grinding the teeth (cp. Sk. dantān kaṭakaṭāpya) i.e. severely (of biting) Ja.iii.203 (passage ought to be read as karakarā nikhāditvā).

husbandman, cultivator, peasant, farmer, ploughman DN.i.61 (k˚ gahapatiko kārakārako rāsi-vaḍḍhako); AN.i.241; AN.i.229, AN.i.239 (the three duties of a farmer); SN.i.172 = Snp.76; SN.iii.155 (varian …

…Ja.iii.26 (katassa appaṭikāraka not reciprocating the deed), Ja.v.434 (kataṃ anukaroti he imitates what has been done kat-ākataṃ what…

Khulukhulu-kaṛakaṃ

(nt. adv.) “so as to make the sound khulu, khulu,” i.e. clattering or bumping about MN.ii.138. Cp. ghuru-ghuru.

Khura¹

the hoof of an animal Vv.64#10 (of a horse = turagānaṃ khuranipāta, the clattering of a horse’s hoof Vv-a.279), cp. Sk. kṣura, a monkey’s claw Sp. Avs.i.236.

khura-kāse MN.i.44 …

…Pv.iv.7#7; Pv-a.59.

• -kāraka¹ = next Ja.iii.14;
• -kārin, doing wrong Snp.665 sq.; Pv-a.58.

Ved….

…Dial iii.132–136.

• -kāraka the “cocoon-maker,” i.e. the silk-worm, Vin.iii.224; Vism.251. *…

…kosa, cp. Sk. kauśeya silk-cloth and P. kosa-kāraka

…cynic MN.i.387 (+ dukkara kāraka; also as k˚-vata, ˚sīla, ˚citta, ˚ākappa) DN.iii.6, DN.iii.7; Ne.99 (+ govatika; *…

secondary root of karoti, in denom. and intensive function in kāra, kāraka, kāraṇa, kārin, kāreti and their derivations.

…the gods“ Pv-a.6. -kāraka one who performs a religious duty DN.i.61 (= DN-a.i.170). 2. doing manner, way: yena…

…arrow-maker fletcher. Perhaps the reading should be ˚kāraka.

der. fr. prec.

see kāraka

…by Cy. as “lakkhaṇa-kāraka”) Ja.iv.364, Ja.iv.366 (ti˚ so explained by Cy. variant reading ni˚). See nillañchaka & cp; *lañcana…

…Vism.339 sq (in simile); Dhp-a.i.112; Dhp-a.ii.45; Dhp-a.iii.206 (˚kāraka); Pv-a.74, Pv-a.171, Pv-a.194; Vv-a.173.

cp. late…

…by “dve janā dve kalaha-kāraka” etc.).

• -bheda [evidently in meaning of mitta-bheda “break of friendship,”…

dancer, player, mimic, actor Vin.iv.285; SN.iv.306 sq. Dhp-a.iv.60 (˚dhītā), Dhp-a.iv.65 (˚karaka), Dhp-a.iv.224 (˚kīḷā); Mil.359 (˚naccaka); Sdhp.380
■ Cp. naṭaka & nāṭaka.

Sk. naṭa dial. ṭ, cp …

adjective noun one who marks cattle, i.e. one who castrates or deprives of virility Ja.iv.364 (spelt tilañchaka in text, but right in variant reading), explained as “tisūlâdi- …

adjective noun one who marks cattle, i.e. one who castrates or deprives of virility Ja.iv.364 (spelt tilañchaka in text, but right in variant reading), explained as “tisūlâdi- …

(-˚) adjective of that kind SN.ii.81; Ja.vi.259.

fr. pakāra

…Snp-a.52.

• -kāraka one who ministers to or looks after a person attendant; one who makes preparations Thig.411…

…(pesane pesiyanto.)

• -kāraka a servant Ja.vi.448; Vv-a.349.
• -kārikā (a girl) doing service, a…

…pesiya, explained by pesana-kāraka, veyyāvaccakara Vv-a.349); Ja.vi.448 (= pesana-kāraka C.), or pessika Snp.615,…

…pesiya, explained by pesana-kāraka, veyyāvaccakara Vv-a.349); Ja.vi.448 (= pesana-kāraka C.), or pessika Snp.615,…

…Pp.26 (= paṭhamaṃ eva kāraka Pp-a 204; Pv-a.114.

• -kicca preiiminary function Vin.v.127 (cattāro pubbakiccā); cp….

…storing DN.i.6; -kāraka storing up, store MN.i.523; Vin.i.209; Vin.iv.87; DN.iii.235; AN.iii.109; AN.iv.370….

…Vin.i.205; Snp-a.100.

• -kāraka an assassin Vin.iii.73
• -vaṇijjā trade in arms AN.iii.208. *…

…Vism.578, Vism.603 (˚assa kāraka); Pv-a.63, Pv-a.243. For description of saṃsāra (its endlessness & inevitableness)…

…Pv-a.70, etc.

• -kāraka id Ja.i.345
• -kāla the time of the redaction of the Pāli Canon, or of…

…bamboo bridge Thag.7.

• -kāraka a bridge-maker, one who paves the way SN.i.33; Kv.345.
• -ghāta…

…(yāgu˚); Pv-a.99; sitthatelaka oil of beeswax Vin.ii.107, Vin.ii.151.

• -āvakārakaṃ (adv.) scattering the lumps of boiled rice…

…eating) Vin.ii.214;…

…and teaching MN.i.129;

• -kāraka the same Snp.445;
• -kārin the same AN.ii.26; susāsanaṃ dussānaṃ…

an informer, slanderer SN.ii.257 (= pesuñña-kāraka C.); Snp.246. Cp. saṃ˚.

fr. sūc to point out

to rattle, shake, clatter; to grind or gnash one’s teeth; to fizz. Usually said of people in frenzy or fury (in ppr. ˚yanto or ˚yamāna) Ja.i.347 (rosena), Ja.i.439 (kodhena); Ja.ii.277 (of a bhikkhu k …

adjective serviceable, helping, effective Ja.v.99; Vism.534
■ f. upakārikā

1. benefactress helper Ja.iii.437.
2. fortification (strengthening of the defence) on a city wall D …

…meditation Vb-a.251

• -kāraka (avaṇṇe) one who makes something (unsightly) appear beautiful Ja.v.270.
• -da giving…

…Ja.vi.200 (yañña-kāraka-brāhmaṇa), Ja.vi.211 sq.; DN-a.i.267; Dhp-a.ii.6.

• -āgāra a hall for sacrifices Pp.56 (=…

appearance; reason, manner (cp. ākāra⁴) Ja.i.269 (ākārakena = kāraṇena C.).

ākāra + ka

…noun a cook DN.i.51 (= bhattakāraka DN-a.i.157); Ja.v.296 (bhattakāraka C.); Ja.v.307; Ja.vi.276 (˚iya, C. ˚ika = sūpika) Mil.331.

Sk….

…noun a cook DN.i.51 (= bhattakāraka DN-a.i.157); Ja.v.296 (bhattakāraka C.); Ja.v.307; Ja.vi.276 (˚iya, C. ˚ika = sūpika) Mil.331.

Sk….