Alternative spellings of this word include Kachilindika.

In Buddhism

Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: academia.edu: A Study and Translation of the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā

Kācilindika (काचिलिन्दिक) refers to a “soft cloth”, according to the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: the eighth chapter of the Mahāsaṃnipāta (a collection of Mahāyāna Buddhist Sūtras).—Accordingly: “[...] Then the Bodhisattva Āśupratibhāna made a wish: ‘I have seen a lotus flower called Sarvaprabhāvavairocana in the Padmavyūha universe of the Tathāgata Śrīratnotpala. It would be one krośa wide, consisting of hundred koṭis of young and tender petals, is pleasant to touch like soft cloth (kācilindika), has a fragrance that fills up the Buddha-fields, and has many hundred thousand colors. When the Bodhisattvas see this lotus flower, they are in rapture and unable to take their eyes off it. By seeing the lotus flower and by smelling its fragrance, the Bodhisattvas attain concentration. Please pour down the rain of such lotus flowers on us’ [...]”.

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Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Kācilindika (काचिलिन्दिक) or Kācalindika.—q.v.

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Kācilindika (काचिलिन्दिक).—nt. (also kāca°, Mahāvyutpatti 5879, both edd.; Mahāvastu i.152.16; ii.29.13; 262.4 (mss.); and v.l. i.226.10; the readings kākaciñcika, kāciñ°, cited by [Boehtlingk and Roth] from Lalitavistara, are worthless corruptions found once each in Calcutta (see LV.) but in no mss.), name of some kind of very soft textile stuff; Mahāvyutpatti 5879 °kam (Tibetan transliterates, adding gos, general word for cloth, clothing); mṛdu(ka)-kācalindika-praveṇi- Mahāvastu i.152.16 = 226.10 (kāci°, v.l. kāca°) = ii.29.13; Mahāvastu i.235.19 (text troublesome, but has kācilindika without v.l., clearly applied to clothes); °dika-mṛdu-sama-cittatāṃ Mahāvastu ii.261.2; 262.4 (so with mss., except that in 261.2 they read pama for sama); mṛdukā keśā kācilindika-sādṛśā (m.c. for sadṛśā) Mahāvastu ii.307.2 (verse); °dika-mṛdu-sparśopama-cittā Mahāvastu iii.225.5; °dika-prāvaraṇa-Śikṣāsamuccaya 208.11; very often in [compound] kācilindika-sukha-saṃsparśa ([bahuvrīhi]) Lalitavistara 17.12; 27.4; 64.8; 65.15; 82.21; 163.3; 276.22; 286.6; Gaṇḍavyūha 194.10; Sukhāvatīvyūha 43.11; Śatasāhasrikā-prajñāpāramitā 11.16.

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

Kācilindika (काचिलिन्दिक):—[from kācilindi] and kācilindi vv.ll. for kāka-ciñcika, [Lalita-vistara]

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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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Full-text: Kacilindi, Kakacincika, Kacalindika, Sadrisha, Kundala.

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