Kakaca: 4 definitions

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Kakaca 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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Pali-English dictionary

Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionary

kakaca : (m.) a saw.

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

Kakaca, (onomat. to sound root kṛ, cp. note on gala; Sk. krakaca) a saw Th. 1, 445; J. IV, 30; V, 52; VI, 261; DA. I, 212; in simile °-ūpama ovāda M. I, 129. Another simile of the saw (a man sawing a tree) is found at Ps. I, 171, quoted & referred to at Vism. 280, 281.

Source: Sutta: Pali Word Grammar from Pali Myanmar Dictionary

1) kakaca (ကကစ) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[kaca+a.kaca bandhane dvittaṃ kakaco.,ṭī.58va.]
[ကစ+အ။ ကစ ဗန္ဓနေ ဒွိတ္တံ ကကစော။ ဓာန်၊ ဋီ။ ၅၈ဝ။]

2) kakaca (ကကစ) [(pu,na) (ပု၊န)]—
[ka+kaca+a.ka iti kacati pāṭayatīti kaco.,ṭī.528.]
[က+ကစ+အ။ က ဣတိ ကစတိ ပါဋယတီတိ ကစော။ ဓာန်၊ ဋီ။ ၅၂၈။]

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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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