Kaccana, Kaccāna, Kaccānā: 3 definitions

Introduction
In Buddhism
1. Theravada
Languages
1. Pali
See also

Introduction:

Kaccana 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.

In Buddhism

Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper Names

1. One of the most eminent disciples of the Buddha, considered chief among expounders in full of the brief saying of the Buddha, (sankhittena bhasitassa vittharena attham vibhajantanam) (A.i.23). He was born at Ujjeni in the family of the chaplain of King Candappajjota, and was called Kaccana both because of his golden colour and because Kaccana was the name of his gotta. He studied the Vedas, and, on the death of his father, succeeded him as chaplain. With seven others he visited the Buddha, at the request of Candappajjota, to invite him to come to Ujjeni. Kaccana and his friends listened to the Buddhas sermon, and having attained arahantship, joined the order. He then conveyed the kings invitation to the Buddha, who pointed out that it would now suffice if Kaccana himself returned to Ujjeni.

Three suttas are mentioned (AA.i.118) as having obtained for Kaccana his title of eminence - the Madhupindika, the Kaccayana and the Parayana;

2. See also:

Maha Kaccana,
Pakudha Kaccana,
Pubba Kaccana,
Sambula Kaccana,
Sabhiya Kaccana, etc.
See also Kaccayana.

3. Kaccana or Kaccayana is the name of a family, the Kaccanagotta (AA.i.118, 410). Kancana manava belonged to the Kaccanagotta (AA.i.116, 410). The Kaccanagotta is mentioned among the higher castes, together with Moggallana and Vasittha (Vin.iv.6).

4. Kaccana - A Sakiyan princess, daughter of Devadahasakka of Devadaha and sister of Anjanasakka. She married Sihahanu and had five sons and two daughters:

Suddhodana,
Dhotodana,
Sakkodana,
Sukkodana,
Amitodana,
Amita and Pamita. Mhv.ii.17-20.

5. Kaccana - See Bhaddakaccana.

context information

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).

Languages of India and abroad

Pali-English dictionary

Source: Sutta: Pali Word Grammar from Pali Myanmar Dictionary

1) kaccāna (ကစ္စာန) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[kacca+ṇāna．thīnitea kaccānī．sakaṭassa apaccaṃ sākaṭāyano sākaṭāno---kaccāyanaṃ kaccānaṃ---kaccāyanī kaccānī．ka．345．kaccassa putto kaccāyano kaccāno．rū．366．kacca．]
[ကစ္စ+ဏာန။ ထီ၌ ကစ္စာနီ။ သကဋဿ အပစ္စံ သာကဋာယနော သာကဋာနော---ကစ္စာယနံ ကစ္စာနံ---ကစ္စာယနီ ကစ္စာနီ။ ကစ္စည်း။ ၃၄၅။ ကစ္စဿ ပုတ္တော ကစ္စာယနော ကစ္စာနော။ ရူ။ ၃၆၆။ ကစ္စလည်းကြည့်။]

2) kaccānā (ကစ္စာနာ) [(thī) (ထီ)]—
[kacca+ṇāna+ā]
[ကစ္စ+ဏာန+အာ]

[Pali to Burmese]

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

1) kaccāna—

(Burmese text): ကစ္စ မည်သောသူ၏-သား-သမီး-အမျိုး-အနွယ်။ (က) ကစ္စာနမျိုး- ကစ္စာနအနွယ်-၌ဖြစ်သော၊ သူ။ (ခ) ကစ္စာနထေရ်၊ အရှင်မဟာကစ္စည်းထေရ်။ အကျယ်ကို။ မဟာကစ္စာနတ္ထေရ-ကြည့်။ (ဂ) ကစ္စာနပရိဗိုဇ် ဝေခနသပရိဗိုဇ်၊ ဘုရားရှင်က ဝေခနသပရိဗိုဇ်ကို ကစ္စာနဟု ခေါ်သည်။ (ဃ) ကစ္စာနထေရ်၊ ကစ္စာန ဂေါတ္တထေရ်။ (င) ကစ္စည်းလုလင်၊ ပုဏ္ဏက ဘီလူး၏ ဘဝဟောင်းအမည်။ (ထီ) (စ) ကစ္စာန အနွယ်၌ဖြစ်သော ကစ္စာနီမည်သော မိန်းမ။

(Auto-Translation): Kiss refers to an individual's offspring lineage. (a) A person belonging to the lineage of a Kiss. (b) The main Kiss, or the prominent Kiss lineage. In detail, see the great Kiss. (c) Kiss's benefits and advantages, the supreme being is referred to as Kiss. (d) The Kiss's essence, the essence of Kiss. (e) The essence of the Kiss known as the old name of the goddess of the past. (f) A woman from the lineage of Kiss named Kissani.

2) kaccānā—

(Burmese text): ဘဒ္ဒကဉ္စနာဟု အမည်ရသော ကစ္စာနာခေါ် ယသောဓရာ (ရာဟုလာမယ်တော်)။ (၎င်းကား ရဟန်းဖြစ်ပြီးသော အခါ အဂ္ဂသာဝက ၂-ပါး,ရှင်ဗာကုလထေရ်များကဲ့သို့ ဖြစ်ခဲ့ဖူးသောဘဝတို့ကို အောက်မေ့ခြင်းငှါ စွမ်းနိုင်သောကြောင့် မဟာဘိညာပ္ပတ္တအရာ၌ ဧတဒဂ်ရသည်)။

(Auto-Translation): The text refers to a phenomenon known as "Buddha's talk" (which involves the teachings of the Buddha). (This pertains to the lives of those who have attained enlightenment, such as Arhats, and signifies the ability to transcend the challenges found in the Mahayana teachings.)

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.

Relevant text

Search found 29 books and stories containing Kaccana, Kaccāna, Kaccānā, Kacca-nana, Kacca-ṇāna, Kacca-nana-a, Kacca-ṇāna-ā; (plurals include: Kaccanas, Kaccānas, Kaccānās, nanas, ṇānas, as, ās). You can also click to the full overview containing English textual excerpts. Below are direct links for the most relevant articles:

Biography (11) Yasodharā Therī < [Chapter 44 - Life Histories of Bhikkhunī Arahats]

Biography (10): Kaccāyana Mahāthera < [Chapter 43 - Forty-one Arahat-Mahatheras and their Respective Etadagga titles]

show preview

Mahavagga, Khandaka 6, Chapter 26 < [Khandaka 6 - On Medicaments]

show preview

The story of Belaṭṭhakaccāna < [6. Medicine (Bhesajja)]

The story of Soṇa Kuṭikaṇṇa < [5. Leather (Camma)]

The five boons for Mahākaccana < [5. Leather (Camma)]

+ 3 more chapters / show preview

The Madhura Sutta

Preface

show preview