tāla
- the palmyra tree (fan palm), Borassus flabelliformis; freq. in comparisons similes MN.i.187; Ja.i.202 (˚vana), Ja.i.273 (˚matta as tall as a palm): Vv-a.162; Pv-a.100 (chinnamūlo viya tālo)
- a strip, stripe, streak Ja.v.372 (= raji).
-aṭṭhika a kernel of the palm fruit Dhp-a.ii.53, cp.60 (˚aṭṭhi-khaṇḍa); -kanda a bulbous plant Ja.iv.46 (= kalamba); -kkhandha the trunk of a palm Ja.iv.351; Vv-a.227 (˚parimāṇā mukhatuṇḍā: beaks of vultures in Niraya); Pv-a.56; -cchidda see *tāḷa*˚; -taruṇa a young shoot of the p. Vin.i.189; -pakka palm fruit Iti.84 -paṇṇa a palm-leaf Dhp-a.i.391; Dhp-a.ii.249; Dhp-a.iii.328; Bdhd 62; also used as a fan (tālapattehi kata-maṇḍalavījanī Vv-a.147) Vv.33#43 (Hardy for ˚vaṇṭha of Goon ed. p. 30); Vv-a.147 (variant reading ˚vaṇṭa q.v.); Cnd.562 (+ vidhūpana); -patta a palm-leaf Vin.i.189; Vv-a.147 -miñja the pith of a p. Ja.iv.402; -vaṇṭa [Sk. tālavṛṇta a fan] Vin.ii.130 (+ vidhūpana), Vin.ii.137; Ja.i.265; Vv-a.44 cp. ˚paṇṇa; -vatthu (more correct tālâvatthu = tāla-avatthu) in tālāvatthukata a palm rendered groundless i.e. uprooted; freq. as simile to denote complete destruction or removal (of passions, faults, etc.) Nearly always in formula pahīna ucchinna-mūla t anabhāvaṃ-kata “given up, with roots cut out, like a palm with its base destroyed, rendered unable to sprout again” (Kern,
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ii.88: as een wijnpalm die niet meer geschiḳt is om weêr uit te schieten). This phrase was misunderstood in BSk.: Mvu.iii.360 has kālavastuṃ
■ The readings vary: tālāvatthu e.g. at MN.i.370; SN.i.69; SN.iv.84; AN.i.135; AN.ii.38; Ja.v.267; tālav SN.iii.10; SN.v.327; Thig.478 (Thag-a.286: tālassa chindita-ṭṭhāna-sadisa); Nd ii.freq. (see under pahīna); tālāvatthukatā at Vin.iii.3
■ In other combination tālāvatthu bhavati (to be pulled out by the roots & thrown away; Ja.v.267 (= chinnamūla-tālo viya niraye nibbattanti p. Ja.v.273), cp. MN.i.250; -vāra “palm-time” (?) or is it tāḷa˚; (gong-turn?) Dhp-a.ii.49 (note: from tala-pratiṣṭhāyāṃ?).
Sk. tāla, cp. Gr. τ ̈αλις & τηλεχάω (be green, sprout up) Lat. talea shoot, sprout