Kāḷī¹Kururagharikā

Described among laywomen as the best of those who believe even from hearsay. AN.i.26 A conversation between her and Mahā Kaccāna is related, where she asks him for a det …

the losing number of dice; the die causing one to lose, the extra die, the losing die; bad luck; defeat, disaster

the losing number of dice; the die causing one to lose, the extra die, the losing die; bad luck; defeat, disaster

…(m. pl.) the devotees of kali, the followers of the goddess kali Mil.191 (see Mil trsl. i.266 n.)

• -(p)piya one who is fond of cheating at…

Four great Araññas (Wildernesses) are often mentioned: Dandaka°, Kāliṅga°, Mejjha°, and Mātaṅga°. MN.i.378 They had once been the sites of very populous and prosperous kingdoms, but had later been des …

Bhaddiya¹

An anāgāmī, one of seven persons who became arahants as soon as they were born in Avihā. SN.i.35 SN.i.60

Bhaddiya²Kāligodhāputta

Chief among monks of aristocratic …

A nun, well known for her quarrelsome propensities. She was a friend of Thullanandā, during whose absence the other nuns once expelled Caṇḍakālī from their midst. This act was greatly resented by Thul …

King of Kumbhavatī in Kaliṅga. MN.i.378

…akī….

A monk, a close relative of the Buddha, who split the Sangha, and attempted to overthrow the Buddha and have him murdered. In one passage in the Vinaya, Vin.ii.189 Devadatta is spoken of as Godhiputta …

Name of Māra in the time of Kakusandha Buddha. He was, in that birth, son of Kāḷī, sister of Moggallāna. He first incited the brahmin householders to revile Kakusandha’s monks, chief of whom were Vidh …

Gosiṅgasālavanadāya¹

A forest tract near Nādikā. Once, when Anuruddha, Nandiya and Kimbila were living there, they were visited by the Buddha, who came from Giñjakāvasatha. The result of t …

…suicide of Godhika and Vakkali. SN.i.121 SN.iii.121f.

In the Cūḷa DukkhakKhaṇḍa Sutta it is said that a large number of Nigaṇṭhas…

Kakkaṭa²

An eminent monk mentioned, with Cāla, Upacāla, Kaḷimbha, Nikata and Kaṭissaha, as staying with the Buddha at the Kūṭāgārasālā in Vesāli. When the Licchavis started coming there to …

A city near the Himalaya, capital of the Sākiyan republic. The administration and judicial business of the city and all other matters of importance were discussed and decided in the Santhāgārasālā. DN …

KatamorakatissaKatamorakatissaka

One of the monks whom Devadatta incited to join him in stirring up discord among the Saṅgha, the others being Kokālika, Khaṇḍadevīputta and Samuddadatta Vin.ii.196 Vi …

KaḷimbhaKalimma

One of the monks who lived in the Kūṭāgārasālā in Vesālī. Finding that the peace of the Mahāvana was being disturbed by…

A monk, one of the associates of Devadatta, mentioned with Kokālika, Katamoraka Tissa and Samuddadatta. They helped Devadatta in his attempt to cause a rift in the Saṅgha.Vin.ii.196 Vin.iii.171 Khaṇḍa …

KokālikaKokāliya

A monk, one of the chief partisans of Devadatta. Knowing the Buddha’s might, he was, at first, reluctant to join in Devadatta’s plot against him, but later allowed himself to be pers …

A hell, or a period of suffering. It is equal to twelve Padumas. The Kokālika monk was born in Kumuda hell.SN.i.152f. Snp.p.126

5hell

Kāliṅga¹

An inhabitant of Ñātika. While staying in Ñātika, at the Giñjakāvasatha, the Buddha tells Ānanda that Kālinga was reborn after death in the Suddhavāsā, and that there he would att …

…Godhika SN.i.120f. and Vakkali SN.iii.124 committed suicide.

It was a lonely spot, and we are told that when monks came from afar to Rājagaha…

A hall in the Mahāvana near Vesāli. The Buddha stayed there on several occasions, and in the books are found records of various eminent persons who visited him there and of his conversations with them …

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 …

MahāmoggallānaMoggallānaKolita

The second of the Chief Disciples of the Buddha. He and Sāriputta went forth as disciples of Sañjaya. After some time, Sāriputta, wandering about in Rājagaha, met Assaj …

MittakālīMittakālikāMittakāḷīMittakāḷikā

A bhikkhunī whose Therīgāthā verses speak of how, having gone forth in faith, she missed out of the higher goals of the ascetic life, so lusted for gains and …

Nigrodhārāma¹

A grove near Kapilavatthu, where a residence was provided for the Buddha. Vin.i.82 There Mahāpajāpati Gotamī first asked permission for women to enter the Order. This was ref …

A Hell. The monk Kokālika was born there. Snp.p.126

5hell

…of the kingdom were called Kalinga, Assaka, Avanti, Sovīra, Videha, Aṅga and Kāsi; their capitals were, respectively, Dantapura, Potana,…

A Mahābrahmā. When the Buddha was at the Ajapālanigrodha, hesitating as to whether or not he should preach the Dhamma, Sahampati appeared before him and begged of him to open to the world the doors of …

The king of the Kālingas in the time of Reṇu. His purohita was Jotipāla, and his capital, Dantapura. DN.ii.236

Subrahmā¹

A devaputta. He visits the Buddha at Veḷuvana and tells him that his heart is full of dismay. The Buddha replies that the only path out of sorrow is by way of wisdom, renunciat …

When Kokālika was grievously ill, Tudu visited him and exhorted him to put his trust in Sāriputta and Moggallāna. But Kokālika refused to accept his advice and drove him away. SN.i.149 AN.v.171

Son of Upacālā and nephew of Sāriputta and Khadiravaniya-Revata. He was ordained by Revata. Thag.43 He is mentioned in the Aṅguttara Nikāya AN.v.133 in a list of very eminent disciples, together with …

…to him— “Fear not, Vakkali, your dying will not be evil.” Vakkali rose from his bed to receive the Buddha’s message, and sending word to…

A lady of Sāvatthī who had a reputation for gentleness till her servant girl, Kāḷī, convinced people that it was not deserved. MN.i.125f.

VekaliṅgaVebhaliṅgaVehaliṅga

A township where lived Ghaṭīkāra, friend of Jotipāla. SN.i.34 SN.i.60

The township was in Kosala, and once,…

not dependent on time; not limited to a particular time; immediate, immediately effective

too dark

chain of bones, a skeleton

(a circular) pad?

(circular) pad (?)

mind that is bad luck; a mind of ill omen.

adverb until death or cremation (or mfn., lasting until cremation (?)

losing catch at dice; bad luck, ill fortune

an instruction, statement influence by anger (?)

block or piece of wood; a chopping block; an executioner’s block

measure or measuring mark.

or neuter a measure or measuring mark.

block or piece of wood; a chopping block; an executioner’s block

an edible shoot or sprout (esp. of a bamboo).

1. (m.) an alkali; a caustic substance (such as soda or potash).
2. (mfn.) consisting of caustic fluid; esp. as epithet of a river in a hell.

dependent on time; relating to or limited to a particular time (now or in the future, i.e. temporary or delayed); what is dependent on time; what belongs to the future.

so long.

adverb temporarily.

lye, an alkaline fluid (allowed as a treatment for constipation)

…= Snp.659 (appamatto ayaṃ kali yo akkhesu dhanaparājayo); Ja.i.379 (kūṭ˚; a false player, sharper, cheat) anakkha one who is not a…

…Vin.ii.198; alaṃ Vakkali kin te iminā pūtikāyena diṭṭhena… SN.iii.120 3. enough of (with instr.): alaṃ ettakena enough of…

…a kind of alkali (product of vegetable ash Ja.vi.454. -jañña see *bāhu*˚
■ jana a…

disc or tuft (?) Vism.255 (kaḷīra˚, where Kp-a.50 reads in same context kaḷīra-daṇḍa).

fr. cakka

drapery Vin.ii.174.

window blind, curtain Vin.ii.148.

he-goat Ja.vi.237; -ka ibid. & Vin.iii.166
■ f. chakalī Ja.vi.559.

cp. Sk. chagala, from chāga heifer

…AN.iii.175; -kali a witch of a heart, a witch-like heart Thag.356; -kallatā readiness of…

…the gums Ja.v.172;

• -vakkalika a kind of ascetics (peeling the bark of trees with their teeth? DN-a.i.271; *…

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 ( …

…of money, as adj. appl. to kali: the dice marking loss in game Snp.659;

• -lobha “greed of gold Ja.iv.1; *…

smoke, fumes Vin.i.204 (aroma of drugs) MN.i.220 (dh ˚ṃ kattā); AN.v.352 (id.); AN.ii.53; AN.iv.72 sq. AN.v.347 sq.; Ja.iii.401, Ja.iii.422 (tumhākaṃ dh-kāle at the time when you will end in smoke, i …

adjective gerundive to gam

1. as grd. to gacchati: (a place where one) ought to go; in a˚ not to be gone to (+ ṭhāna) Vv-a.72.
2. as grd. to gameti: in bhogā pahāya gamanīyā (riches that have) to …

…piece, splinter Ja.iv.30 (sakalika˚); hīrahīraṃ karoti to cut to pieces, to chop up Ja.i.9; Dhp-a.i.224 (+ khaṇḍâkhaṇḍaṃ).

cp….

…with baddha, jāni & kali); Snp.120; Ja.i.307; Ja.ii.388, Ja.ii.423; Ja.iii.66; Ja.iv.184 (iṇagga for nagga?) Ja.v.256; Ja.v.253 (where…

drop (of perspiration), dirt in seda˚; etc. AN.i.253 (kāli˚); Snp.198 = Ja.i.146; Ja.vi.578.

demin. of jalla

inhabited country, the country (opp. town or market-place), the continent politically: a province, district, county DN.i.136 (opp nigama); DN.ii.349; AN.i.160, AN.i.178; Snp.422, Snp.683, Snp.995, Sn …

Name of a certain herb or plant (Convolv. repens?); may be a bulb or radish Ja.iv.46 (= tālakanda), cp. p. Ja.iv.371, Ja.iv.373 (where C explains by tāla-kanda; gloss BB however gives latā-tanta); J …

heap, stack (like a heap of wood? cp. kalingara) Mil.292 (sīsa˚).

cp. Sk. karaṇḍa piece of wood?

to utter an (indistinct) sound: pp. kalita Thag.22.

kal, kālayati

sounding indistinctly Thag.22.

pp. of kalati

…Thig.468 (id.) as kaṭṭhakalingarāni Dhp-a.ii.142. 2. a plank, viz. a step in a staircase, in sopāna˚ Vin.ii.128, cp….

the Laurus camphora, the Indian laurel Ja.vi.537.

cp. Sk. kalinga & kalingaka

1. a small fraction of a whole, generally the 16th part; the 16th part of the moon’s disk; often the 16th part again subdivided into 16 parts and so on: one infinitesimal part (see Vv-a.103; Dhp-a.i …

…Cp. kuṇapa. 3. the step in a flight of stairs MN.ii.92, cp. kalingara.

cp. BSk. kaḍebara Avs.; ii.26

(cp. kaḍamba, kalamba) a mark used to keep the interstices between the threads of the kaṭhina even, when being woven Vin.ii.116, Vin.ii.317 (variant reading kaḷimpaka).

(cp. kaḍamba, kalamba) a mark used to keep the interstices between the threads of the kaṭhina even, when being woven Vin.ii.116, Vin.ii.317 (variant reading kaḷimpaka).

Err:509

…so read for kalira˚ Kp-a.50 at id. passage reads kaḷīra-daṇḍa).

• -(a)chejja (nt.) “the cutting off of the…

…SN.iv.351 sq-Opposed to kali the unlucky die, in phrase kaliṃ gaṇhāti to have bad luck Ja.vi.206 (kaliggaha =…

…of niratthaṃ va kalingaraṃ) Thag-a.284 (as explⁿ of chuṭṭho kalingaraṃ viya).

• -tāla a wooden…

…pāsaka-kīḷanaṃ). See also kali.

…wounded; pādo kh˚ hoti sakalikāya “he grazed his foot” SN.i.27 = Mil.134 Mil.179
■ akkhata unmolested, unhurt…

any alkaline substance, potash, lye. In combination with ūsa (salt earth) at SN.iii.131 (-gandha) AN.i.209
■ Used as a caustic Pv.iii.10#2;…

Khārika¹

alkaline, in enumⁿ of tastes (cp. rasa) at SN.iii.87; Dhs.629 and ≈.

adj. to khāra

Khārika²

of the…

Kāla & Kāḷa

Preliminary

1. dark (syn. kaṇha, which cp. for meaning and applications), black, blueblack, misty, cloudy. Its proper sphere of application is the dark as opposed to light, and i …

adjective belonging to time, in time, as sabba-kālika always in time, cp. Gr. ὡραϊος Vv.39#2 with time, i.e. gradual, slowly, delayed SN.i.117 = Cnd.645; usually neg. akālika

1. not delayed, immed …

kind of (shiny) sandal wood; so to be read for tālīsa at Vin.i.203 (see note on p. 381).

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 …

…AN.v.297; MN.i.17.

• -kali “the misfortune of having a body” = this miserable body Thig.458, Thig.501; Thag-a.282,…

Kāla & Kāḷa

Preliminary

1. dark (syn. kaṇha, which cp. for meaning and applications), black, blueblack, misty, cloudy. Its proper sphere of application is the dark as opposed to light, and i …

adjective black, stained; in enumeration of colours at Dhs.617 (of rūpa) with nīla, pītaka, lohitaka odāta, k˚, mañjeṭṭha; of a robe AN.ii.241; f. kāḷikā Vv-a.103
■ (nt.) a black spot, a stain, als …

…(loṇāni bhesajjāni alkaline medicine among which are given sāmuddaṃ kāḷaloṇaṃ sindhavaṃ ubbhidaṃ bilaṃ as var. kinds of…

…Loṇiya

adjective salty, alkaline Dhs.629
■ loṇiya-teliya prepared with salt & oil Ja.iii.522 Ja.iv.71
■…

…Loṇiya

adjective salty, alkaline Dhs.629
■ loṇiya-teliya prepared with salt & oil Ja.iii.522 Ja.iv.71
■…

…bhikkhus) Vin.ii.137.

• -sakalika “a bit of fish” (fish-bone?) in description of constitution of the finger nails at Vism.250 = Kp-a.43 =…

…expressions): appamatto kali Snp.659; pañcamattā sata 500; DN-a.i.35; saṭṭhimatte saṭṭhimatte katvā Snp-a.510 māsamattaṃ…

…Pv-a.176; Vv-a.147 -sikali (?) Kp-a.49; -hattha Vv.33#44 (= mayūra-piñjehi kataṃ makasa-vījaniṃ);…

I. Etymology

Although nir + vā “to blow”. (cp. BSk. nirvāṇa) is already in use in the Vedic period (see nibbāpeti), we do not find its distinctive ap …

…(godhika); SN.iii.124 (vakkali); SN.iv.63 (Puṇṇa); Snp.p.59 Snp.p.60 (a Thera); Mil.390 (Arahant); Vv-a.158; Pv-a.76; Dhp-a.ii.163;…

…bitter pungent, salt, alkaline, sour, astringent; pleasant, unpleasant cold & hot. Mil.56 has the foll.: ambila lavaṇa, tittaka, kaṭuka,…

… ■ sakalikaṃ sakalikaṃ in little pieces Vin.ii.112
■ sakalika-hīra a skewer Ja.iv.29, Ja.iv.30.

fr. sakala = Sk. śakala…

…of luck Mil.191 (+ kalidevatā).

• -dhara glorious Mhvs.5, Mhvs.13.
• -nigguṇḍi a kind…

…of luck Mil.191 (+ kalidevatā).

• -dhara glorious Mhvs.5, Mhvs.13.
• -nigguṇḍi a kind…

…(? Ja.i.330.

• -kaliṅgara flight of steps Vin.ii.128 (variant reading sopāṇakaḷevara as at MN.ii.92). *…

adverb so much, so long; usually correl. with yāva how long, how much; in all meanings to be understood out of elliptical application of this correlation Thus

I

*yāva-tāva …

to become depraved, to revoke(?) Mil.143.

= ukkilissati? ud + kilissati

adj. nt. “putting under”, i.e.

1. a pillow, cushion DN.i.7; SN.ii.267 = Mil.366 (kaḷingar˚); SN.iii.145; AN.i.137, AN.i.181; AN.iii.50; Ja.iv.201; Ja.v.506 (tamb˚ = ratt˚ C.).
2. imposing, giving, ca …

…a tree Ja.ii.13 (˚antara); Ja.iii.522. 2. a bark garment (worn by ascetics): see vakkali.

cp. BSk. valkala (e.g. Jtm.210):…

…the sound of the bark-garment-wearer). See also Np. Vakkali.

in compound for in

adjective (-˚) in danta˚; peeling bark with one’s teeth, designation of a cert. kind of ascetics DN-a.i.271.

fr. vakkala

1. a bamboo Snp.38 (vaṃso visālo va; vaṃso explained at Cnd.556 as “veḷugumba,” at Snp-a.76 as “veḷu”), ibid. (˚kaḷīra) Ja.vi.57; Vism.255 (˚kaḷīra); Kp-a.50 (id.).
2. race lineage, family AN.ii.27 …

twig, rod; creeper; junglerope (cp. veṇu-daṇḍa); cane (calamus). By itself only in standard list of punishments (tortures): vettehi tāḷeti to flog with canes, e.g. AN.i.47; AN.ii.122; Mil.196 Other …

adjective asked, begged, borrowed MN.i.365 (˚ṃ bhogaṃ) Ja.iv.358 = Ja.vi.127 (˚ṃ yānaṃ and ˚ṃ dhanaṃ, alluding to MN.i.365–MN.i.366), with explⁿ Ja.iv.358: “yaṃ parena dinnattā labbhati taṃ …

1. restraint, only as cpd. cātu-yāma 4-fold restraint DN.i.57; DN.iii.48; SN.i.66; MN.i.377; Vism.416. Cp. Dial. i.75¹.
2. a watch of the night. There are 3 watches given as *paṭhama, …

adverb

1. (as prep.) up to (a point), as far as, how far so far that (cp. tāva I), both temporal and local, used either with absolute form of noun or adj. (base), or nom., or abl. or *acc …

louse Ja.i.453; Ja.ii.324; Ja.iii.393; Ja.v.298; Mil.11; Vism.445; Dhs-a.307 Dhs-a.319; Dhp-a.iii.342; Vv-a.86.

is also used as linear measure (cp. Sk. yūkālikṣaṃ) Vb-a.343 (where 7 likkhā are s …