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Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionary

bhākuṭika : (adj.) knitting the brows; frowning.

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

Bhākuṭika, (adj.) (fr. bhakuṭi) knitting the eyebrows, frowning, only in redupl. cpd. bhākuṭika-bhākuṭiko frowning continually, supercilious Vin. II, 11=III, 181 (manda-mando+); Nd² 342 (korajika-korajiko+); Vism. 26 (id.).—f. bhākuṭikā a frown, frowning, superciliousness, def. at Vism. 26 as “padhāna-parimathitabhāva-dassanena bhākuṭi (read bhakuṭi) —karaṇaṃ mukha-saṅkoco ti vuttaṃ hoti.” It occurs in stock phrase bhākuṭikā bhākuṭiyaṃ kuhanā kuhāyanā in def. of kuhanā at Vbh. 352=Vism. 23, 25 (cp. Nd¹ 225), and at Nd² 342 D. See also VbhA. 482 (bhākuṭikaraṇaṃ sīlam assā ti bhākuṭiko). The form bhākuṭiyaṃ (nt.) is originally the same as bhākuṭikā, only differentiated in C. -style. The def. at Vism. 26 is “bhākuṭikassa bhāvo bhākuṭiyaṃ.” The v. l. ibid. is bhākuṭitā. —bhākuṭikaṃ karoti to make a frowning face, to act superciliously Vism. 105 (as a quality of one “dosa-carita”). (Page 501)

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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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