Okirana, Okiraṇa: 2 definitions

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Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionary

okiraṇa : (nt.) scattering; casting out.

Source: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

Okiraṇa, (o + kiraṇa) casting out (see the later avakirati2), only as adj. -f. okirinī (okilinī through dialect. variation) a cast-out woman (cast-out on acct of some cutaneous disease), in double combn. okilinī okirinī (perhaps only the latter should be written) Vin. III, 107 = S. II, 260 (in play of words with avakirati1). Bdhgh’s allegorical expln. at Vin. III, 273 puts okilinī = kilinnasarīrā, okiriṇī = aṅgāraparikiṇṇa. Cp. kirāta. (Page 163)

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Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.

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