Kaccayana, Kaccāyana, Kaccayana-na: 4 definitions
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Kaccayana 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.
In Buddhism
Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
1. Kaccayana Thera - Author of the Kaccayanavyakarana, the oldest of the Pali grammars extant. Orthodox tradition identifies him with Maha Kaccana.
He was probably a South Indian and belonged to the Avanti school founded by Maha Kaccana (P.L.C.179ff; Gv.66; Svd.1233f). He was, perhaps, also the author of the Nettippakarana.
Kaccayana probably belongs to the fifth or sixth century A.D.
The Gandhavamsa (p.59) ascribes to Kaccayana the authorship of the
Kaccayanagandha, Mahaniruttigandha, Culaniruttigandha, Petakopadesagandha, Nettigandha and Vannanitigandha.2. Kaccayana Thera - An arahant. He was a disciple of Padumuttara Buddha, and was declared by him to be chief among those who could expound in detail what the Buddha stated in brief. It was this declaration made in the presence of Maha Kaccana, which made the latter, in that birth an ascetic in Himava, wish for a like proficiency for himself under a future Buddha. Ap.ii.464; ThagA.i.484.
3. Kaccayana - In the Vidhurapandita Jataka, the Yakkha Punnaka calls himself and is addressed as Kaccayana (J.vi.273), Kaccana (J.vi.283, 286, 301, 327) and Katiyana (J.vi.299, 306, 308). The scholiast seems to offer no explanation.
4. Kaccayana - See also Kaccana.
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
Prakrit-English dictionary
Kaccāyaṇa (कच्चायण) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Kātyāyana.
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.
Pali-English dictionary
1) kaccāyana (ကစ္စာယန) [(na) (န)]—
[kaccāyana+ṇa]
[ကစ္စာယန+ဏ]
2) kaccāyana (ကစ္စာယန) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[kacca+ṇāyana．thīnitea kaccāyanī．]
[ကစ္စ+ဏာယန။ ထီ၌ ကစ္စာယနီ။]
[Pali to Burmese]
1) kaccāyana—
(Burmese text): ကစ္စမည်သောသူ၏-သား-သမီး-အမျိုး-အနွယ်။ ကစ္စာန-ကြည့်။ (က) ကစ္စာယနမျိုး၌ဖြစ်သော၊ သူ။ (ခ) ကစ္စာယနထေရ်၊ ဧတဒဂ်ရ အရှင်မဟာကစ္စည်းထေရ်။ ကစ္စာနတ္ထေရ-လည်းကြည့်။ (ဂ) ကစ္စာယနဆရာ၊ ဆသတ္ထာရတွင် ပါဝင်သော ပကုဓကစ္စာယနဆရာ။ (ဃ) ကစ္စာယနထေရ်၊ သဘိယကစ္စာယနထေရ်။ (င) ကစ္စာယနလုလင်၊ ကစ္စည်းလုလင် (ပုဏ္ဏကဘီလူး၏ ဘဝဟောင်းအမည်)။
(Auto-Translation): The descendants of the person who will be a kisam. Look at kisama. (a) The one who is in the kisama lineage. (b) Kisama with the great lord atadagya mahasisthara. Also, look at kisamanathar. (c) Kisama teacher, the practitioner of the sacred kisama teachings. (d) Kisama, the teacher of the great kisama teachings. (e) Kisama lulin, the kisama lulin (the old name of the being Punnekabilu).
2) kaccāyana—
(Burmese text): ကစ္စည်း (သဒ္ဒါ) ကျမ်း။ ကစ္စာယနပ္ပကရဏ-လည်းကြည့်။
(Auto-Translation): Kit-siri (Sadhdha) scripture. Also check Kit-saya-nappakarana.
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 (+0): Nayana, Kaccayana, Kacca, Na.
Starts with (+0): Kaccayana Vyakarana, Kaccayanabheda, Kaccayanagandha, Kaccayanagottaniddittha, Kaccayanamata, Kaccayanappakarana, Kaccayanasamyutta, Kaccayanasara, Kaccayanavannana, Kaccayanayoga.
Full-text (+44): Mahakaccayana, Kaccayanamata, Kaccayanagottaniddittha, Kaccayanappakarana, Kaccayanasamyutta, Katyayana, Kaccayana Vyakarana, Suttaniddesa, Mahakatyayana, Kaccayanagandha, Saddhammanasini, Pubba Kucayana, Saratthavikasini, Sirisaddhammavilasa, Vannanitigandha, Kaccayanavannana, Chanda, Kaccayanayoga, Vacakopadesa, Pakudha Kaccayana.
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Acaranga Sutra (critical study) (by Shobha Surana)
Part 4.2 - Mahāvīra and Pakudha Kaccāyana (Kakuda Kātayāyana) < [Chapter 3 - Religious aspect of Ācārāṅga-sūtra]
Vinaya (2): The Mahavagga (by T. W. Rhys Davids)
Mahavagga, Khandaka 5, Chapter 13 < [Khandaka 5 - Rules for Foot-clothing, Seats, Vehicles, etc.]
The View From the Center (by Ajahn Amaro)
Dhammapada (Illustrated) (by Ven. Weagoda Sarada Maha Thero)
Verse 94 - The Story of Venerable Mahākaccāyana < [Chapter 7 - Arahanta Vagga (The Saints)]
Verse 318-319 - The Story of the Disciples of Non-Buddhist Teachers < [Chapter 22 - Niraya Vagga (Hell)]
Verse 167 - The Story of a Young Monk < [Chapter 13 - Loka Vagga (World)]
Mahayana Buddhism and Early Advaita Vedanta (Study) (by Asokan N.)
Chapter 2.10 - The Psychological attitude of Buddhist Philosophy
Maha Buddhavamsa—The Great Chronicle of Buddhas (by Ven. Mingun Sayadaw)
Part 2 - The Sandal-Wood Bowl < [Chapter 24 - The Buddha’s Sixth Vassa at Mount Makula]
Biography (17): Soṇa Kuṭikaṇṇa Mahāthera < [Chapter 43 - Forty-one Arahat-Mahatheras and their Respective Etadagga titles]
Biography (10): Kaccāyana Mahāthera < [Chapter 43 - Forty-one Arahat-Mahatheras and their Respective Etadagga titles]