…top-knot DN.i.7; vātasikhā (tikkhā a raging blast) Ja.iii.484; susikha (adj.) with a beautiful crest Thag.211 (mora), Thag.1136.

Vedic…

Aṅgīrasi¹

A term of affection (Radiant One) used by Pañcasikha in addressing Suriyavaccasā. DN.ii.265

Aṅgīrasa²

One of the ten ancient seers who conducted great sacrifices and …

Bhaddā¹

Wife of King Muṇḍa. At her death the king placed her body in a vessel of oil and mourned for her until his friend Piyaka took him to Nārada Thera at the Kukkuṭārāma, and there made …

A class of semi-divine beings who inhabit the Cātummahārājika realm and are the lowest among the devas. DN.ii.212 They are generally classed together with the Asuras and the Nāgas AN.iv.200 AN.iv.204 …

GijjhakūṭaVulture’s Peak

One of the five hills encircling Rājagaha. It was evidently a favourite resort of those who followed the religious life.

The Buddha seems to have been attracted by its solit …

The name given to the chariot driver of Sakka. The Mātali of the present age had a son, Sikhandhi, with whom Bhaddā Suriyavaccasā, daughter of Timbarū, was in love; but later she transferred her affec …

SakkaVatrabhūVāsavaMaghavāMāghaPurindadaSahassakkhaSahassanettaSujampatiKosiya

Almost always spoken of as chief of the devas. The Saṃyutta Nikāya SN.i.229 contains a list of his names.

• Maghavā, be …

A Mahā Brahmā, whose name means “ever young”. In the Nikāyas DN.i.121 MN.i.358 SN.i.153 AN.v.327 he is mentioned as the author of a famous verse, which is eleswhere attribued to the Buddha. SN.ii.284 …

SikhaḍḍīSikhaṇḍī

A Gandhabba, son of Mātali; Bhaddā Suriyavaccasā was at first in love with him, but she was won later by Pañcasikha. DN.ii.268

SikhāmoggallānaSikhāMoggallāna

A brahmin who once visited the Buddha, saying that he had been told by Soṇakāyana that the Buddha preached the…

A youth who, according to Sikhā Moggallāna, went about saying that the Buddha proclaimed the ineffectiveness of all deeds, and thereby preached the…

SuriyavaccasāBhaddā

A Gandhabba maiden, daughter of Timbaru.

When she went to dance before Sakka, Pañcasikha saw her and fell in love with her, but she favoured Mātali’s son Sikhaṇḍī.

Later she hea …

flame; a crest of a fire.

with blossoming crests.

the tip of the nail.

like the bud of the blue lotus

A (dense & dark) cloud, a cloudy mass AN.ii.53; Vin.ii.295 = Mil.273 in list of to things that obscure moon- & sunshine, viz.; abbhaṃ mahikā (mahiyā A) dhūmarajo (megho Miln), Rāhu. This list i …

(˚eti) & -mantheti

1. to cleave, cut; to crush, destroy MN.i.243 (sikharena muddhānaṃ ˚mantheti); SN.i.127; Dhp.161 (variant reading ˚nth˚); Ja.iv.457 (matthako sikharena ˚matthiyamāno) Dhp-a.iii …

…Snp.1074 (vuccati jālasikhā Cnd.11); Ja.v.213; Mil.40; Thag-a.154 (dīp’) Sdhp.250.

Vedic arci m. & arcis nt. & f. to; ṛc, cp. accati

…Vin.i.139; Vin.ii.154. -sikhā the crest of the fire, the flame, in simile ˚ûpama, like a flaming fire Snp.703; Dhp.308;…

adjective studying, learning MN.i.100; Dhp.226 (ahoratta˚ = divā ca rattiñ ca tisso sikkhā sikkhamāna Dhp-a.iii.324).

fr. anusikhati

Beluva & Beḷuva

1. the Vilva tree Aegle marmelos MN.i.108; MN.ii.6; Ja.iv.363, Ja.iv.368; Ja.vi.525 Ja.vi.560.
2. wood of the Vilva tree SN.i.22; DN.ii.264 Mhbv.31.

• -pakka ripe …

Beluva & Beḷuva

1. the Vilva tree Aegle marmelos MN.i.108; MN.ii.6; Ja.iv.363, Ja.iv.368; Ja.vi.525 Ja.vi.560.
2. wood of the Vilva tree SN.i.22; DN.ii.264 Mhbv.31.

• -pakka ripe …

…Ja.iv.363; Thag-a.14

• -sikhā fire (Ep. of Agni; lit. smoke-crested) Vv.35#2 (sikha) = Vv-a.161; Vism.416; also as sikhin…

…Dhp-a.iv.120;

• -sikhā the flame (lit. crest) of a l. Vism.171; Dhp-a.ii.49.

Ved. dīpa to Ved. dī, dīpyate;…

mountain; as a rule only in cpds, by itself (poetical) only at Vism.206 (in enumⁿ of the 7 large mountains).

• -agga mountain top, in giraggasamajja Name of a festival c …

…Name of one of the two Roruva hells (“blazes”) Ja.v.271;

• -sikhā a glowing crest i.e. a flame…

peak, summit, projecting corner SN.i.100 (where satakkatu in Text has to be corrected to satakkaku: megho thanayaṃ vijjumālā satakkaku. Com. explⁿ sikhara, kūṭa) AN.iii.34 (= AN-a.620 ~ …

gold, usually as uttatta˚; molten gold; said of the colour of the skin Bv.i.59; Pv.iii.3#2; Ja.v.416; Pv-a.10 suvaṇṇa).

• -agga gold-crested Ja.v.156;
• -chavin of golden co …

…cp. kiccha laddhaka;

• -visikhā the street or quarter of the poor, the slums Ud.4;
• -vuttin leading a…

1. ray, beam of light splendour, effulgence Thag.64; which is a riddle on the various meanings of ketu.
2. flag, banner, sign perhaps as token of splendour Thag.64. dhamma-k˚ having the Doctrine as …

Kūṭa¹

neuter a trap, a snare; fig. falsehood, deceit. As trap Ja.i.143 (kūṭapāsādi); Ja.iv.416 (explⁿ paṭicchannapāsa). As deceit, cheating in formula tulā˚ kaṃsa māna˚ “cheatin …

peacock DN.iii.201; SN.ii.279; Thag.1113; Ja.ii.144, Ja.ii.150 (˚gīva) = Dhp-a.i.144; Ja.iv.211 (˚nacca); Ja.v.304; Ja.vi.172, Ja.vi.272, Ja.vi.483; Vv.11#1, Vv.35#8 (= sikhaṇḍin Vv-a.163); Vv-a.27 …

1. a mountain (-range), hill, rock SN.i.101 SN.i.102, SN.i.127, SN.i.137; SN.ii.32, SN.ii.185, SN.ii.190; AN.i.243; AN.ii.140; AN.iv.102 (dhūpāyati); Snp.413, Snp.417, Snp.543, Snp.958, Snp.1014; Mnd …

adjective pale-red or yellow, reddish, light yellow, grey; only at Thig.79 (kisā paṇḍu vivaṇṇā), where paṇḍu represents the usual up-paṇḍ’-uppaṇḍuka-jātā: “thin, pale and colourless” (see Thag- …

…(for ˚pīṭhānaṃ pādasikhāsu āṇi dinno hoti.“ At DN-a.i.77 we find the foll. “visūkaṃ paṭāni (sic.)-bhūtaṃ dassanan ti…

the top, summit of a mountain Ja.vi.519; Mil.2; a peak Dhp-a.iii.364 (˚thūpiyo or ˚thūpikāyo peaked domes); the point or edge of a sword MN.i.243; SN.iv.56; crest, tuft Ja.ii.99; (this is a very diff …

kind of woman (with certain defects of the pudendum) Vin.ii.271; Vin.iii.129 (text, ˚aṇī).

fr. last

adjective noun

1. tufted, crested (as birds); Ja.v.406; Ja.vi.539; Thag.1103 (mayūra); with tonsured hair (as ascetics) Ja.iii.311.
2. a peacock Ja.v.406; Vv-a.163.

Sk. śikhaṇḍin

…Ja.i.288 2. the peacock Snp.221, Snp.687.

fr. sikhā

…(imper. ˚āyatu & fut. ˚āyissati); Dhp-a.i.21 (akkhīni dīpa-sikhā viya vijjhāyiṃsu).

vi + jhāyati²

street, road Vin.iv.312; Ja.i.338; Ja.iv.310; Ja.v.16, Ja.v.434.

• -kathā gossip at street corners DN.i.179; MN.i.513; Dhp.i.90.

cp. *Sk. (lexicogr.) viśikhā