Candakanta, Canda-kanta: 3 definitions
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Candakanta means something in Buddhism, Pali. 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.
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Source: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English DictionaryCandakanta refers to: a gem Miln. 118;
Note: candakanta is a Pali compound consisting of the words canda and kanta.
Source: Sutta: Pali Word Grammar from Pali Myanmar Dictionarycandakanta (စန္ဒကန္တ) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[canda+kanta．candova kanto manāpo asmiṃ atthīti candakanto．jālinī．ṭī．candrakānto abhiḍo yasya．thoma．(candrakānta-saṃ)]
[စန္ဒ+ကန္တ။ စန္ဒောဝ ကန္တော မနာပေါ အသ္မိံ အတ္ထီတိ စန္ဒကန္တော။ ဇာလိနီ။ ဋီ။ စန္ဒြကာန္တော အဘိဍော ယသျ။ ထောမ။ (စန္ဒြကာန္တ-သံ)]
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.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Canda, Kanta, Katipaya.
Starts with: Candakantamani, Candakantamanipabbata.
Full-text: Candakantamani.
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