Cankamana, Caṅkamana, Camkamana: 5 definitions

Introduction:

Cankamana means something in Buddhism, Pali, Jainism, Prakrit. 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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Pali-English dictionary

[«previous next»] — Cankamana in Pali glossary
Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionary

caṅkamana : (nt.) a terraced walk; walking up and down.

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

Caṅkamana, (nt.) (fr. caṅkamati) 1. walking up & down S. II, 282; DhA. I, 10.—2. a cloister walk (=caṅkama) VvA. 188. Usually °-: Vin. I, 139 (°sālā); J. III, 85; IV, 329; PvA. 79 (°koṭi the far end of the cloister). (Page 260)

Source: Sutta: Pali Word Grammar from Pali Myanmar Dictionary

caṅkamana (စင်္ကမန) [(na) (န)]—
[kamu+yu.(caṅkramaṇa-saṃ)]
[ကမု+ယု။ (စြင်္ကမဏ-သံ)]

[Pali to Burmese]

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

caṅkamana—

(Burmese text): (၁) သွားခြင်း၊ စြင်္ကံသွားခြင်း၊ လူးလာတုံ့ခေါက်လမ်းလျှောက်ခြင်း။ (၂) စြင်္ကံ၊ စြင်္ကံသွားရာအရပ် (စြင်္ကံကျောင်း၊ စြင်္ကံလမ်း)။ (၃) စြင်္ကံသွားသောအခါ။ စင်္ကမနကာလ,စင်္ကမနဝေလာ-ကြည့်။ (တိ) (၄) စြင်္ကံသွားသော၊ လူးလာတုံ့ခေါက် လမ်းလျှောက်သော၊ သူ။ စင်္ကမနကတာပသ-ကြည့်။

(Auto-Translation): (1) Going, wandering, walking down the road nonchalantly. (2) The paths of wandering, the places of wandering (wandering schools, wandering streets). (3) When wandering occurs. The wandering phase, the wandering terrain - look. (4) A person who wanders, who walks down the road nonchalantly. Look at the wandering scenes.

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context information

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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Prakrit-English dictionary

[«previous next»] — Cankamana in Prakrit glossary
Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary

Caṃkamaṇa (चंकमण) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Caṅkramaṇa.

context information

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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