Cakka, Cākkā: 18 definitions

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Cakka means something in Buddhism, Pali, Jainism, Prakrit, Hinduism, Sanskrit, the history of ancient India, Marathi, Hindi, biology, Tamil. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.

Alternative spellings of this word include Chakka.

In Buddhism

Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: Pali Kanon: Manual of Buddhist Terms and Doctrines

'wheel', is one of the seven 'precious possessions' (ratana) of a righteous World Emperor (cakkavatti: 'He who owns the Wheel,' cf. D. 26), and symbolizes conquering progress and expanding sovereignty. From that derives the figurative expression dhamma-cakkam pavatteti, 'he sets rolling the Wheel of the Law' and the name of the Buddha's first sermon, Dhamma-cakkappavattana Sutta (s. dhamma-cakka).

Another figurative meaning of C. is 'blessing'. There are 4 such 'auspicious wheels' or 'blessings': living in a suitable locality, company of good people, meritorious acts done in the past, right inclinations (A. IV, 31).

Bhava-cakka, 'wheel of existence', or of life, is a name for 'dependent origination' (s. paticca-samuppāda).

See The Buddhist Wheel Symbol, by T. B. Karunaratne (WHEEL 137/138); The Wheel of Birth and Death, by Bhikkhu Khantipalo (WHEEL 147/149)

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Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).

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In Jainism

General definition (in Jainism)

Source: Wisdom Library: Jainism

Cakka (चक्क) is the Prakrit name of a Yakṣa chief, obiedient to Vaiśramaṇa (god of wealth, also known as Kubera), according to the Bhagavatī-sūtra, also known as The Vyākhyāprajñapti (“Exposition of Explanations”). The Bhagavatī-sūtra is the largest of twelve Jain āgamas and was composed by Sudharmāsvāmī in the 6th century.

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Jainism is an Indian religion of Dharma whose doctrine revolves around harmlessness (ahimsa) towards every living being. The two major branches (Digambara and Svetambara) of Jainism stimulate self-control (or, shramana, ‘self-reliance’) and spiritual development through a path of peace for the soul to progess to the ultimate goal.

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India history and geography

Source: OpenEdition books: Vividhatīrthakalpaḥ (History)

Cakka (चक्क) is the name of a Tīrtha (i.e., non-Jaina holy places), associated with Ahicchatrā, as is mentioned in the Vividhatīrthakalpa by Jinaprabhasūri (13th century A.D.): an ancient text devoted to various Jaina holy places (tīrthas).—[(9) 19.1-2], § 5: cf. Growse 1978 ( 1 1883) p. 141-148 and Entwistle 1987.

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The history of India traces the identification of countries, villages, towns and other regions of India, as well as mythology, zoology, royal dynasties, rulers, tribes, local festivities and traditions and regional languages. Ancient India enjoyed religious freedom and encourages the path of Dharma, a concept common to Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.

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Biology (plants and animals)

Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)

Cakka in India is the name of a plant defined with Artocarpus integrifolius in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Artocarpus integrifolia L.f..

Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):

· Supplementum Plantarum Systematis Vegetabilium Editionis Decimae Tertiae (1782)

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Languages of India and abroad

Pali-English dictionary

Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionary

cakka : (nt.) a wheel; circle; disc; cycle; command.

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

Cakka, (nt.) (Vedic cakra, redupl. formation fr. *quel to turn round (cp. P. kaṇṭha › Lat. collus & see also note on gala)=that which is (continuously) turning, i.e. wheel, or abstr, the shape or periphery of it, i.e. circle. Cakra=Gr. ku/klos, Ags. hveohl, hveol=wheel. The unredupl. form in Sk. carati (versatur), Gr. pέlomai, poleu/w, poλos (pole); Lat. colo, incolo; Obulg. kolo wheel, Oisl. hvel) I. Crude meaning: 1. a wheel (of a carriage) Dh. 1; PvA. 65 (ratha°); Miln. 27.—2. a discus used as a missile weapon J. I, 74; Pgdp 36; cp. khura° a razor as an Instr. of torture.—3. a disc, a circle: heṭṭhāpādatalesu cakkāni jātāni, forming the 2nd characteristic mark of a Mahāpurisa D. II, 17= III, 143; D. III, 149.—J. II, 331; Miln. 51.—4. an array of troops (under tayo vyūhā: paduma° cakka° sakaṭa°) J. II, 404=IV. 343.—II. Applied meaning: 1. (a wheel as component part of a carriage, or one of a duad or tetrad=) collection, set, part; succession; sphere, region, cycle Vin. I, 330 (cp. Vin. Texts II. 281); III, 96; iriyāpatha° the 4 ways of behaviour, the various positions (standing, walking, sitting, lying down) DA. I, 249; Sdhp. 604. sā°, miga° the sphere or region of dogs & wild animals Miln. 178; cakkena (Instr.) in succession PvA. III, cakkaṃ kātabbaṃ, or bandhitabbaṃ frequent in Yam. and Paṭṭh, “The cycle of formulated words is to be here repeated.” — 2. (like the four wheels constituting the moving power of a carriage=) a vehicle, instrument, means & ways; attribute, quality; state, condition, esp. good condition (fit instrumentality), catucakka an Instr. of four, a lucky tetrad, a fourwheeler of the body as expressing itself in the four kinds of deportment, iriyāpathas A. II, 32; S. I, 16, 63 (catucakkaṃ). In this sense generalized as a happy state, consisting of “4 blessings”: paṭirūpadesa-vāsa, sappurisûpassaya, atta-sammāpaṇidhi, pubbe-kata-puññatā A. II, 32; J. V, 114; mentioned at Ps. I, 84. Cp. also Sn. 554 sq. ; 684. Esp. pronounced in the two phrases dhamma-cakka (the wheel of the Doctrine, i.e. the symbol of conquering efficacy, or happiness implicated in the D.) and brahma-c° the best wheel, the supreme instrument, the noblest quality. Both with pavatteti to start & kcep up (like starting & guiding a carriage), to set rolling, to originate, to make universally known. dhamma° e.g. S. I, 191; A. I, 23, 101; II, 34, 120; III, 151; IV, 313; Sn. 556 sq. ; 693; J. III, 412; Ps. II, 159 sq. ; PvA. 67 (see dhamma). brahma° M. I, 71; S. II, 27; A. II, 9, 24; III, 9, 417; V, 33; Vbh. 317 sq. ; 344 (see brahma). Cp. cakkavattin (below).—Cp. vi°.

Source: Sutta: Pali Word Grammar from Pali Myanmar Dictionary

1) cakka (စက္က) [(na) (န)]—
[cakka+ṇa]
[စက္က+ဏ]

2) cakka (စက္က) [(na) (န)]—
[cakka+a.cakkati aparāparaṃ parivattatīti cakkaṃ.aṃ,ṭī,1.141.cakketibyathati hiṃ satīti atthena cakkaṃ.nīti,dhā.282.cara+ka.ra- ka-pru.caranti vā etena sattā sampattibhavaṃ sampattibhave-sūti vā cakkaṃ.sī,ṭī,,1.159.(-dī,ṭī,1.42.ma,ṭī,1.32.saṃ,ṭī,1.28.aṃ,ṭī,1.31).caca+ka.ca- ka-pru.cacati cakkavattino yathāruci ākāsādigamanāya paribbhamatīti cakkaṃ.sī,ṭī,,2.235.kara+ra.kakahu dvepru,ka- ca-pru,ka-dvepru.karoti kamanamaneneti cakkaṃ,dvittaṃ,cakkādi.,ṭī.373.(cakra-saṃ).cakkasaddāeiea atthuddhāraç sa-dī,ṭṭha,3.243.ma,ṭṭha,1.333.aṃ,ṭṭha,1.93.aṃ,ṭṭha,254.abhi,ṭṭha,2.382.apa,ṭṭha,1.264.buddhavaṃ,ṭṭha.59.paṭisaṃ,ṭṭha,1.727.paṭisaṃ,ṭṭha,2.232.ma,ṭī,2.2va.aṃ,ṭī,2.81,227,28va-nitea.]
[စက္က+အ။ စက္ကတိ အပရာပရံ ပရိဝတ္တတီတိ စက္ကံ။ အံ၊ ဋီ၊ ၁။ ၁၄၁။ စက္ကေတိဗျထတိ ဟိံ သတီတိ အတ္ထေန စက္ကံ။ နီတိ၊ ဓာ။ ၂၈၂။ စရ+က။ ရ-ကို က-ပြု။ စရန္တိ ဝါ ဧတေန သတ္တာ သမ္ပတ္တိဘဝံ သမ္ပတ္တိဘဝေ-သူတိ ဝါ စက္ကံ။ သီ၊ ဋီ၊ သစ်၊ ၁။ ၁၅၉။ (-ဒီ၊ ဋီ၊ ၁။ ၄၂။ မ၊ ဋီ၊ ၁။ ၃၂။ သံ၊ ဋီ၊ ၁။ ၂၈။ အံ၊ ဋီ၊ ၁။ ၃၁)။ စစ+က။ စ-ကို က-ပြု။ စစတိ စက္ကဝတ္တိနော ယထာရုစိ အာကာသာဒိဂမနာယ ပရိဗ္ဘမတီတိ စက္ကံ။ သီ၊ ဋီ၊ သစ်၊ ၂။ ၂၃၅။ ကရ+ရ။ ကကဟု ဒွေဘော်ပြု၊ ရှေ့က-ကို စ-ပြု၊ က-ဒွေဘော်ပြု။ ကရောတိ ကမနမနေနေတိ စက္ကံ၊ ဒွိတ္တံ၊ စက္ကာဒိ။ ဓာန်၊ ဋီ။ ၃၇၃။ (စကြ-သံ)။ စက္ကသဒ္ဒါ၏ အတ္ထုဒ္ဓါရ,သရုပ်ကို-ဒီ၊ ဋ္ဌ၊ ၃။ ၂၄၃။ မ၊ ဋ္ဌ၊ ၁။ ၃၃၃။ အံ၊ ဋ္ဌ၊ ၁။ ၉၃။ အံ၊ ဋ္ဌ၊ ၂၅၄။ အဘိ၊ ဋ္ဌ၊ ၂။ ၃၈၂။ အပ၊ ဋ္ဌ၊ ၁။ ၂၆၄။ ဗုဒ္ဓဝံ၊ ဋ္ဌ။ ၅၉။ ပဋိသံ၊ ဋ္ဌ၊ ၁။ ၇၂၇။ ပဋိသံ၊ ဋ္ဌ၊ ၂။ ၂၃၂။ မ၊ ဋီ၊ ၂။ ၂ဝ။ အံ၊ ဋီ၊ ၂။ ၈၁၊ ၂၂၇၊ ၂၈ဝ-တို့၌ကြည့်။]

[Pali to Burmese]

Source: Sutta: Tipiṭaka Pāḷi-Myanmar Dictionary (တိပိဋက-ပါဠိမြန်မာ အဘိဓာန်)

1) cakka—

(Burmese text): (၁) ဘီး၊ စက်ဘီး၊ လှည့်ဘီး၊ ရထားဘီး။ (၂) စက်လက္ခဏာ။ (က) မြတ်စွာဘုရား၏ ခြေဖဝါးတော်၌ ထင်ရှားရှိသော ၁ဝ၈-ကွက် စက်လက္ခဏာတော်။ (ခ) မြတ်စွာဘုရား၏ ခြေတော်ရာ၌ ထင်သော ၁ဝ၈-ကွက်စက်လက္ခဏာတော်၊ ခြေတော်ရာစက်လက္ခဏာ။ (၃) အာဏာစက်။ (၄) ဓမ္မစက်။ (၅) သင်တုန်းစက်။ (၆) ဣရိယာပထစက်၊ ဣရိယာပုထ် ၄-ပါးဟူသောစက်။ (၇) သမ္ပတ္တိစက်၊ ပတိရူပဒေသဝါသ,သပ္ပုရိသူပနိဿယ,အတ္တသမ္မာပဏိဓိ,ပုဗ္ဗေကတပုညတာ-ဟူသော သမ္ပတ္တိစက်။ (ဂ) စကြာရတနာ၊ စကြဝတေးမင်းတို့၏ အသုံးအဆောင် ဖြစ်သောယာဉ်။ (၉) စက်ဝန်း၊ စက်ဝိုင်း၊ အဝန်းအဝိုင်း၊ ဝန်းဝိုင်းသောအရာ။ (၁ဝ) စစ်တပ်၊ စစ်သည်၊ စစ်သား။ (၁၁) အား၊ အစွမ်း။ (၁၂) စက်လက်နက်၊ လက်နက်စကြာ၊ ဝန်းဝိုင်းသော အခြင်းအရာအားဖြင့် ပြုအပ်သော လက်နက်အထူး။ (၁၃) စက်၊ စက်ယန္တရား။ (က) အိုးထိန်းစက်၊ အိုးလုပ်သောစက်၊ အိုးစက်။ (ခ) ဆီကြိတ်စက်၊ ဆီစက်။ (၁၄) ဒါန။ (က) စွန့်ကြဲ-ပေးကမ်း-လှူဒါန်း-ခြင်း။ (ခ) စွန့်ကြဲ-ပေးကမ်း-လှူဒါန်း-ဖွယ်ဖြစ်သော ဝတ္ထုပစ္စည်း။ (၁၅) အပေါင်း၊ အစု။ (၁၆) စက်၊ စက်လှည့်ခြင်း၊ တရားတစ်မျိုးကို မူတည်၍ အခြားတရားများကို မူလီသွတ်ကာလှည့်၍-ဟော-ဆို-ညွှန်-ပြ-ခြင်း။ (၁၇) ယာဉ်၊ ဆင်,မြင်း,လှည်း,ရထားစသောယာဉ်။ (၁၈) စကြာ၊ ကစားစရာစကြာ။ (၁၉) စကြဝတေးမင်းတို့၏ ကျင့်ဝတ်တရား။ (၂ဝ) သာသနာ။ (၂၁) စက္ကဝက်ငှက်။

(Auto-Translation): (1) Wheel, bicycle, rotating wheel, railway wheel. (2) Symbol of the machine. (a) The 108-square symbol prominently represented on the feet of the Great Lord. (b) The 108-square symbol visible on the foot area of the Great Lord, symbol of the foot area. (3) Power machine. (4) Dhamma machine. (5) Teacher machine. (6) Basic machine, known as the four basic machines. (7) Sambatti machine, known as Pati-rupa-dhetha-watha, Sappurisa-nitha, Atta-samma-panna, Pubbe-kata-pannata - this is the Sambatti machine. (g) Sky gemstone, a vehicle used by the celestial deities. (9) Machine circle, machine round, circular object, round thing. (10) Army, soldier, military personnel. (11) Strength, power. (12) Machine weapons, weapons of the cosmos, special weapons generated by circular conditions. (13) Machine, machinery. (a) Pot-holding machine, machine for making pots, pot machine. (b) Oil extraction machine, oil machine. (14) Donation. (a) Offering, presenting, donating. (b) Objects that are suitable for offering, presenting, donating. (15) Gathering, group. (16) Machine, rotating machine, based on one truth while flipping and presenting other truths - preaching - speaking - guiding - explaining. (17) Vehicle, elephant, horse, cart, train-like vehicles. (18) Cosmos, toys of the cosmos. (19) The religious practices of the celestial deities. (20) Buddhism. (21) Cosmic swallow.

2) cakka—

(Burmese text): (၁) ဘီးနှင့်တူသော သဘောတရား။ (က) သံသရာစက်။ သံသာရစက္က-လည်းကြည့်။ (ခ) ပဋိစ္စသမုပ္ပါဒ်စက်။ ပဋိစ္စသမုပ္ပါဒစက္က-လည်း ကြည့်။ (ဂ) ဣရိယာပထစက်။ စက္ကသဒိသတ္တ-ကြည့်။ (ဃ) သမ္ပတ္တိစက်။ စက္ကသဒိသတ္တ-ကြည့်။ (၂) စက်ဝိုင်းနှင့်တူသော အနာ၊ ပွေးနာ။ စက္ကမဒ္ဒက-ကြည့်။

(Auto-Translation): (1) Principles similar to wheels. (a) Iron wheel. Also see the iron sphere. (b) Material transformation wheel. Also see the material transformation sphere. (c) Engine wheel. Look at the engine sphere. (d) Cyclic wheel. Look at the cyclic sphere. (2) A wound similar to a wheel, a blister. Also see the wheel of calamity.

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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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Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

cakka (चक्क).—a Bright-shining. A word particularly of shroffs, and applied by them, and after them by others, first to silver and gold, and then to trinkets, implements, clothes, house, and every thing, in the sense of Bright, splendid, spruce, trim, fine, clean, good. 2 a & ad Lost in admiration or wonder.

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cakka (चक्क).—n A flash. Ex. prathama cakka jhālēṃ ēkadāṃ maga kaḍakaḍūna vīja paḍalī.

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cakkā (चक्का).—m cakkādahīṃ n ( H) Milk coagulated firmly and uniformly, a kind of cheese. 2 (Cant.) A good dinner; a blow-out. Ex. āja cakkā kōṇī- kaḍē dharalā? āja cakkādahīṃ vāḍhalēṃ.

Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English

cakka (चक्क).—a Bright-shining. cakka n A flash.

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cakka (चक्क) [-kara-kan-diśī, -कर-कन्-दिशी].—&c. ad With a flash; with a sudden gleam, flare, or quick blaze.

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cakkā (चक्का).—m Milk coagulated firmly and uniformly, a kind of cheese.

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Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.

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Sanskrit dictionary

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

Cakka (चक्क):—[from cakk] [varia lectio] for caka.

[Sanskrit to German]

Cakka in German

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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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Hindi dictionary

Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary

Cakkā (चक्का) [Also spelled chakka]:—(nm) a wheel; sphere; an orderly heap (of bricks, stone slabs, etc.); chunk.

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Prakrit-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary

1) Cakka (चक्क) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Cakra.

2) Cakka (चक्क) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Cakra.

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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.

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Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Cakka (ಚಕ್ಕ):—[noun] a circular frame or disk arranged to revolve on an axis, as on or in vehicles or machinery; a wheel.

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Cakka (ಚಕ್ಕ):—

1) [noun] the symbol for the number six.

2) [noun] in the game of dice, a score of six.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

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Tamil dictionary

Source: DDSA: University of Madras: Tamil Lexicon

Cākkā (சாக்கா) [cākkāttal] [cā-kā] intransitive verb < சா- [sa-] + கா-. [ka-.] To wait on a dying person, affording necessary help; இறப்போர்க்கு அருகிருந்து உதவுதல். [irapporkku arugirunthu uthavuthal.] (J.)

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Tamil is an ancient language of India from the Dravidian family spoken by roughly 250 million people mainly in southern India and Sri Lanka.

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Nepali dictionary

Source: unoes: Nepali-English Dictionary

1) Cakka (चक्क):—adv. to eat till satiation; to eat abundantly; to eat to the full;

2) Cakkā (चक्का):—n. 1. a wheel; 2. any round and circular object; disc; 3. cassette;

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Nepali is the primary language of the Nepalese people counting almost 20 million native speakers. The country of Nepal is situated in the Himalaya mountain range to the north of India.

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