Alternative spellings of this word include Chailaka.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Cailaka (चैलक).—A Buddhist mendicant.

Derivable forms: cailakaḥ (चैलकः).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit 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: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

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

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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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Full-text: Celaka, Cellaka, Celuka, Cailaki, Tapana.

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