Agga: 6 definitions
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Pali-English dictionary
agga : (adj.) the highest; the top-most. (m.), the end; the top. || añña (adj.) other; another; else. aññā (f.) perfect knowledge; arahantship.
1) Agga, 2 (nt.) (only —°) (a contracted form of agāra) a (small) house, housing, accomodation; shelter, hut; hall. dān° a house of donation, i. e. a public or private house where alms are given J.III, 470; IV, 379, 403; VI, 487; PvA.121; Miln.2. salāk° a hut where food is distributed to the bhikkhus by tickets, a food office J.I, 123, VvA.75. (Page 4)
2) Agga, 1 (adj. n.) (Vedic agra; cp. Av. agrō first; Lith. agrs early) 1. (adj; ) (a.) of time: the first, foremost Dpvs.IV, 13 (saṅgahaṃ first collection). See cpds. — (b.) of space: the highest, topmost, J.I, 52 (°sākhā). — (c.) of quality: illustricus, excellent, the best, highest, chief Vin.IV, 232 (agga-m-agga) most excellent, D.II, 4: S.I, 29 (a. sattassa Sambuddha); A.II, 17 = Pv IV.347 (lokassa Buddho aggo (A: aggaṃ) pavuccati); It.88, 89; Sn.875 (suddhi); PvA.5. Often combd. with seṭṭha (best), e. g. D.II, 15; S.III, 83, 264. — 2. (nt.) top, point. (a.) lit.: the top or tip (nearly always —°); as ār° point of an awl Sn.625, 631; Dh.401; kus° tip of a blade of grass Dh.70; Sdhp.349; tiṇ° id PvA.241; dum° top of a tree J.II, 155; dhaj° of a banner S.I, 219; pabbat° of a mountain Sdhp.352; sākh° of a branch PvA.157; etc. — (b.) fig. the best part, the ideal, excellence, prominence, first place, often to be trsl. as adj. the highest, best of all etc. S.II, 29 (aggena aggassa patti hoti: only the best attain to the highest); Mhvs 7, 26. Usually as —°; e. g. dum° the best of trees, an excellent tree Vv 3541 (cp. VvA.161); dhan° plenty D.III, 164; madhur° S.I, 41, 161, 237; bhav° the best existence S.III, 83; rūp° extraordinary beauty J.I, 291; lābh° highest gain J.III, 127; sambodhi-y-agga highest wisdom Sn.693 (= sabbaññuta-ñāṇan SnA 489; the best part or quality of anything, in enumeration of the five “excellencies” of first-fruits (panca aggāni, after which the N. Pañcaggadāyaka), viz. khettaggan rās° koṭṭh° kumbhi° bhojan° SnA 270. sukh° perfect bliss Sdhp.243. Thus frequent in phrase aggaṃ akkhāyati to deserve or receive the highest praise, to be the most excellent D.I, 124; S.III, 156, 264; A.II, 17 (Tathāgato); It.87 (id.); Nd2 517 D (appamādo); Miln.183. — 3. Cases as adv.: aggena (Instr.) in the beginning, beginning from, from (as prep.), by (id.) Vin.II, 167. (aggena gaṇhāti to take from, to subtract, to find the difference; Kern Toev. s. v. unnecessarily changes aggena into agghena), 257 (yadaggena at the moment when or from, foll. by tad eva “then”; cp. agge), 294 (bhikkh° from alms); Vbh.423 (vass° by the number of years). aggato (Abl.) in the beginning Sn.217 (+ majjhato, sesato). aggato kata taken by its worth, valued, esteemed Th.2, 386, 394. agge (loc) 1. at the top A.II, 201 (opp. mūle at the root); J.IV, 156 (id.); Sn.233 (phusit° with flowers at the top: supupphitaggasākhā KhA 192); J.II, 153 (ukkh°); III, 126 (kūp°). — 2 (as prep.) from. After, since, usually in phrases yad° (foll. by tad°) from what time, since what date D.I, 152; II, 206; & ajja-t-agge from this day, after today D.I, 85; M.I, 528; A.V, 300; Sn.p. 25 (cp. BSk. adyāgrena Av. Ś II.13); at the end: bhattagge after a meal Vin.II, 212.
agga (အဂ္ဂ) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[aja+ga. aja+a. ṇvādi 32- ,ṭī-696-. ayaṃ aggasaddo ādikoṭikoṭṭhāsakeṭṭhesu dissati. vi,ṭṭha,1,141. dī,ṭṭha,1,21va. ma,ṭṭha,1,141. aṃ,ṭṭha,1,96. aṃ,ṭṭha,2,22. iti,ṭṭha,268.]
[အဇ+ဂ။ အဇ+အ။ ဏွာဒိ ၃၂-နှင့် ဓာန်၊ ဋီ-၆၉၆-ကြည့်။ အယံ အဂ္ဂသဒ္ဒေါ အာဒိကောဋိကောဋ္ဌာသကေဋ္ဌေသု ဒိဿတိ။ ဝိ၊ဋ္ဌ၊၁၊၁၄၁။ ဒီ၊ဋ္ဌ၊၁၊၂၁ဝ။ မ၊ဋ္ဌ၊၁၊၁၄၁။ အံ၊ဋ္ဌ၊၁၊၉၆။ အံ၊ဋ္ဌ၊၂၊၂၂။ ဣတိဝုတ်၊ဋ္ဌ၊၂၆၈။]
[Pali to Burmese]
agga—
(Burmese text): (၁) အဦးအစ။ အဂ္ဂဂိမှ-လည်းကြည့်။ (၂) အစွန်း၊ အဖျား။ အဂ္ဂင်္ကုရ,အဂ္ဂနခ,အင်္ဂုလဂ္ဂ-တို့ကြည့်။ (၃) အဖို့ အစု။ (၄) အပိုင်းအခြား။ သေယျဂ္ဂ (ဝိ၊၄၊၃၁၇။ ဝိ၊ဋ္ဌ၊၄၊၆၅။ဝဇိရ၊၅၂၆)ကြည့်ပါ။ (၅) အမြတ်၊ မြတ်သော၊ အမြတ်ဆုံးဖြစ်သော၊ သူ။ (က) အမြတ်ဆုံးဖြစ်သော မဂ်,ဖိုလ်၊ အရဟတ္တမဂ်,အရဟတ္တဖိုလ်။ (ခ) အမြတ်ဆုံးဖြစ်သော ရတနာ ၃-ပါး။ (ဂ) မြတ်သော-ဝိဝဋ္ဋနိဿိတဖြစ်သော-သဒ္ဓါစသော တရား။ (ဃ) မြတ်သော သီလစသော ဂုဏ်။ (င) မြတ်သော အလှူဝတ္ထု။ (၆) မြတ်သည်၏အဖြစ်။ (၇) အမြတ်၌ဖြစ်သော။ (ဂ) မြတ်သော အကျိုးရှိသော၊ မြတ်သော အကျိုးကို ပေးတတ်သော။ (၉) ပြဓာန်းသော။ (၁ဝ) အကြီးအကဲ၊အကြီးဆုံးဖြစ်သော၊ သူ။ (၁၁) အထွတ်အထိပ်။ (၁၂) အပေါင်းအစု။ (၁၃) အဆုံး။ (၁၄) နေရာဌာန။ (၁၅) အစဉ်၊ ကြီးစဉ်ငယ်လိုက်။ (၁၆) အာရုံ။ (၁၇) ရှေ့။ (၁၈) အပိုင်းအခြား၊ ရှေ့နောက်အစွန်း။ အနမတဂ္ဂ-ကြည့်။
(Auto-Translation): (1) Introduction. Also look at the beginning. (2) Edges, corners. Look at Aggankura, Agganakha, and Ingulagga. (3) For the group. (4) Other sections. See Dhammagggi (V, 4, 317; V, 7, 65; Wajira, 526). (5) Profitable, precious, most profitable, that person. (a) Most profitable magga, most revered phala. (b) The three precious jewels that are most profitable. (c) Precious-indicative of the truth, Dharma of noble wisdom. (d) Precious quality of virtue. (e) Precious donations. (6) The state of being precious. (7) Existing in profit. (c) Precious and beneficial, capable of providing precious benefits. (9) Established. (10) Great leader, the greatest. (11) Distinction. (12) Gathering. (13) Conclusion. (14) Position department. (15) Order, hierarchy from great to small. (16) Mindfulness. (17) Front. (18) This section, the previous and next edges. Look at Anamatagga.
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.
Prakrit-English dictionary
1) Agga (अग्ग) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Agrava.
2) Agga (अग्ग) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Agra.
3) Agga (अग्ग) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Agra.
4) Agga (अग्ग) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Agrya.
Prakrit is an ancient language closely associated with both Pali and Sanskrit. Jain literature is often composed in this language or sub-dialects, such as the Agamas and their commentaries which are written in Ardhamagadhi and Maharashtri Prakrit. The earliest extant texts can be dated to as early as the 4th century BCE although core portions might be older.
Kannada-English dictionary
Agga (ಅಗ್ಗ):—
1) [noun] condition or fact of price being low; cheapness of price.
2) [noun] want of worth; worthlessness.
3) [noun] loss of respect, honour or importance;4) [noun] ಅಗ್ಗಮಾಡು [aggamadu] aggamāḍu to lower another’s respect or esteem; to look down; to regard as inferior; ಅಗ್ಗವಾಗು [aggavagu] aggavāgu to become cheap; to lose price in the selling market 2. to lose one’s respect or esteem; ಅಗ್ಗದ ಆಸೆ ಮುಗ್ಗಿದ ಜೋಳ [aggada ase muggida jola] aggada āse muggida jōḷa (prov.) something that costs little and is of very bad quality; cheap and nasty; cheapness hardly ensures good quality; ಅಗ್ಗಸೂರೆ ಅನ್ನವೆಂದು ಸೀರೆ ಬಿಚ್ಚಿ ಉಂಡಳು [aggasure annavemdu sire bicci umdalu] aggasūre annavendu sīre bicci uṇḍaḷu (prov.) to cut large shives of another man’s loaf; better belly burst than meal and good drink be lost.
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Agga (ಅಗ್ಗ):—
1) [noun] the amount of money for which something is sold or offered; intrinsic worth; price; value.
2) [noun] that which renders anything useful or estimable and the degree of this quality; intrinsic value; pre-eminence; moral excellence.
3) [noun] good quality, competence or ability in which one excels others.
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Agga (ಅಗ್ಗ):—
1) [noun] the foremost point or part; tip; apex.
2) [noun] the front portion.
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Agga (ಅಗ್ಗ):—[noun] a twist of fibre used to fasten or bind; a rope.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches (+0): Ga, Aja.
Starts with (+29): Aggaariyavamsika, Aggabaha, Aggabahutthi, Aggabalakaya, Aggabhaga, Aggabhakkha, Aggabhanda, Aggabhatta, Aggabhava, Aggabhikkha, Aggabhojana, Aggabhuta, Aggabija, Aggabrahmana, Aggacakkavattiadisukha, Aggacchinnamahapunnagaphalasanthana, Aggacchinnapunnagaphalasanthana, Aggadakkhineyya, Aggadana, Aggadanta.
Full-text (+337): Thina, Aggata, Aggamagga, Valagga, Aggaraja, Bhavagga, Aggatta, Labhagga, Agganna, Aggamahesi, Jivhagga, Danagga, Rasagga, Anikagga, Mandalagga, Aggabhava, Agghakaraka, Udagga, Lokagga, Khalagga.
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Garga Samhita (English) (by Danavir Goswami)
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Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra (by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön)
The Ugratagṛhapati-jātaka < [I. Puṇyakriyāvastu consisting of generosity]
Emptiness 10: Emptiness of dharmas without beginning (anagraśūnyatā) < [Chapter XLVIII - The Eighteen Emptinesses]
Vinaya Pitaka (4): Parivara (by I. B. Horner)
As To Graduation (11. Elevens) < [7. As To Graduation]
Vinaya (3): The Cullavagga (by T. W. Rhys Davids)
Cullavagga, Khandaka 5, Chapter 2 < [Khandaka 5 - On the Daily Life of the Bhikkhus]
Cullavagga, Khandaka 6, Chapter 11 < [Khandaka 6 - On Dwellings and Furniture]
Cullavagga, Khandaka 4, Chapter 10 < [Khandaka 4 - The Settlement of Disputes among the Fraternity]
Maha Buddhavamsa—The Great Chronicle of Buddhas (by Ven. Mingun Sayadaw)
Part 1 - The story of Upatissa (Sāriputta) and Kolita (Mahā Moggallāna) < [Chapter 16 - The arrival of Upatissa and Kolita]
Part 12 - The Seven Purifications of a Buddha < [Chapter 7 - The Attainment of Buddhahood]
Part 3 - Bodhisatta-kicca (duties of a Bodhisatta) < [Chapter 2 - Rare Appearance of a Buddha]