gold AN.iii.346 Thag.691 (muttaṃ selā va k.); Thig.266 (k˚ ssa phalakaṃ va); Vv-a.4, Vv-a.9 (= jātarūpa). Esp. freq. in compounds = of or like gold.

• -agghika a golden garland Bv.X.26.
• -agghiya id Bv.v.29.
• -āveḷā id. Ja.vi.49; Vv.36#2; Pv.ii.12#7 (thus for ˚ācela); Pv.iii.9#3; Pv-a.157.
• -kadalikkhaṇḍa a g bunch of bananas Ja.vi.13.
• -thūpa a gilt stupa Dhp-a.iii.483; Dhp-a.iv.120.
• -patimā a gilt or golden image or statue Ja.vi.553; Vv-a.168.
• -paṭṭa a g. turban or coronet Ja.vi.217.
• -patta a g. dish Ja.v.377.
• -pallaṅka a gilt palanquin Ja.i.204.
• -bubbula a gilt ornament in form of a ball Mhvs.34, Mhvs.74
• -rūpa a g. figure Ja.iii.93.
• -latā g. strings surrounding the royal drum Ja.vi.589.
• -vaṇṇa of g. colour, gilt shining, bright Ja.v.342 (= paṇḍara).
• -velli a g. robe girdle or waist cloth Ja.v.398 (but explained as “k-rūpakasadisa-sarīra “having a body like a g. statue”), cp Ja.v.306, where velli is explained by kacchā, girdle.
• -sannibha like g., golden-coloured (cp. k-vaṇṇa and Sk kanaka-varṇa Sp. Avs.i.121, Avs.i.135, etc.), in phrase ˚taca “with golden-coloured skin,” epithet of the Buddha and one of the 32 signs of a great man (mahāpurisa-lakkhaṇa) DN.ii.17; DN.iii.143, DN.iii.159; MN.ii.136; Mil.75; attr of a devatā Vv.30#2, Vv.32#2 ; Vv-a.284; of a bhikkhu Snp.551 = Thag.821.
• -sūci a gold pin, a hair-pin of gold Ja.vi.242.

Derivation uncertain, cp. Sk. kāñeana, either from khacati (shine = the shining metal, cp. kāca (glass) & Sk.; kāś), or from kanaka gold, cp. Gr. κνηκός (yellow). P. kañcana is poetical