Phāla¹

masculine & neuter ploughshare SN.i.169; Snp.p.13 & Snp.v.77 (explained as “phāletī ti ph.” Snp-a.147) Ja.i.94; Ja.iv.118; Ja.v.104; Ud.69 (as m.); Dhp-a.i.395.

cp. Vedic phāla

Phāla²

an (iron) board, slab (or ball?), maybe spear or rod. The word is of doubtful origin & meaning, it occurs always in the same context of a heated iron instrument, several times in correlation with an iron ball (ayogula). It has been misunderstood at an early time, as is shown by kapāla AN.iv.70 for phāla Kern comments on the word at

Toevoegselen

ii.139. See Vin.i.225 (phālo divasantatto, so read; variant reading balo corr. to bālo; corresp. with guḷa); AN.iv.70 (divasa-santatte ayokapāle, gloss ayogule); Ja.v.268; Ja.v.109 (phāle ciraratta-tāpite, variant reading pāle, hale, thāle; corresp. with pakaṭṭhita ayogula), id. Ja.v.113 (ayomayehi phālehi pīḷeti variant reading vālehi).

to phala³

Phāla³

in loṇa-maccha˚; a string (?) or cluster of salted fish Vism.28.