Alternative spellings of this word include Chailaka.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Cailaka (चैलक).—A Buddhist mendicant.

Derivable forms: cailakaḥ (चैलकः).

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Cailaka (चैलक).—(1) m. (from Sanskrit cela or caila, cloth), a monk (compare Burnouf, Intr., 57; Lotus, 392; Kern, [Sacred Books of the East] 21.186 note 1), said to mean, specifically, one who wears no more than a (loin-)cloth: te cailaka-bhūta Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 192.9 (verse), turned into monks; but most mss. read celaka, ceḍaka, or cellaka, or the like; (2) nt. (= Sanskrit cela, caila, also celaka, see Schmidt, Nachträge; AMg. celaa), cloth: °kaṃ, acc. sg., Mahāvastu iii.163.9 (prose).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Cailaka (चैलक):—[from caila] m. ‘clothed with a cela (?)’, a, [Buddhist literature] mendicant, [Buddhist literature] (cf. celuka.)

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Cailaka (चैलक):—m. ein buddhistischer Bettler, der sich mit einem Stücke Zeug (caila) zur Bedeckung seiner Blössen begnügt(?), [Burnouf 57.] [Lot. de Lassen’s Anthologie b. l. 392.] — Vgl. celuka .

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

Cailaka (चैलक):—m. ein buddh. Bettler.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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Starts with: Cailakam.

Full-text: Cailakam, Cellaka, Celaka, Celuka, Cailaki, Chu jia, Tapana.

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Kailash: Journal of Himalayan Studies

Titles Traditionally Used by Sakyas in the Kathmandu Valley < [Volume 15, Number 1-2 (1989)]

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