Kappa: 11 definitions
Introduction:
Kappa means something in Buddhism, Pali, the history of ancient India, Marathi, Jainism, Prakrit, biology. 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)
cf. Kappa (“cosmogony”).
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).
India history and geography
Kappa.—(EI 33), Kannaḍa; same as Sanskrit śulka or kara. (SITI), Tamil-Telugu-Kannaḍa; periodical and custo- mary payments by persons engaged in some professions. Note: kappa is defined in the “Indian epigraphical glossary” as it can be found on ancient inscriptions commonly written in Sanskrit, Prakrit or Dravidian languages.
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Kappa.—(EI 33), Kannaḍa; tolls; Note: kappa is defined in the “Indian epigraphical glossary” as it can be found on ancient inscriptions commonly written in Sanskrit, Prakrit or Dravidian languages.
The history of India traces the identification of countries, villages, towns and other regions of India, as well as mythology, zoology, royal dynasties, rulers, tribes, local festivities and traditions and regional languages. Ancient India enjoyed religious freedom and encourages the path of Dharma, a concept common to Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.
Biology (plants and animals)
Kappa in India is the name of a plant defined with Ficus tinctoria in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Ficus parasitica Willd. (among others).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Florulae Insularum Australium Prodromus (1786)
· Journal of Ethnopharmacology (1996)
If you are looking for specific details regarding Kappa, for example side effects, health benefits, extract dosage, diet and recipes, pregnancy safety, chemical composition, have a look at these references.
This sections includes definitions from the five kingdoms of living things: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Monera. It will include both the official binomial nomenclature (scientific names usually in Latin) as well as regional spellings and variants.
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
Kappa, (adj. n.) (Sk. kalpa, see kappeti for etym. & formation) anything made with a definite object in view, prepared, arranged; or that which is fit, suitable, proper. See also DA. I, 103 & KhA 115 for var. meanings.—I Literal Meaning.—1. (adj.) fitting, suitable, proper (cp. °tā) (=kappiya) in kappâkappesu kusalo Th. 1, 251, °kovido Mhvs 15, 16; Sn. 911; as juice Miln. 161. ‹-› (-°) made as, like, resembling Vin. I, 290 (ahata°); Sn. 35 (khaggavisāṇa°); hetu° acting as cause to Sn. 16; Miln. 105;—a° incomparable Mhvs 14, 65;— 2. (nt.) a fitting, i.e. harness or trapping (cp. kappana) Vv 209 (VvA. 104);— a small black dot or smudge (kappabindu) imprinted on a new robe to make it lawful Vin. I, 255; IV, 227, 286: also fig. a making-up (of a trick): lesa° DA. I, 103; VvA. 348.—II. Applied Meaning. ‹-› 1. (qualitative) ordinance, precept, rule; practice, manner Vin. II, 294, 301 (: kappati singiloṇa-kappo “fit is the rule concerning ... ”); cp. Mhvs 4, 9; one of the chalaṅga, the 6 disciplines of Vedic interpretation, VvA. 265;— 2. (temporal) a “fixed” time, time with ref. to individual and cosmic life. As āyu at DA. I, 103 (cp. kappaṃ); as a cycle of time=saṃsāra at Sn. 521, 535, 860 (na eti kappaṃ); as a measure of time: an age of the world Vin. III, 109; Miln. 108; Sdhp. 256, 257; PvA. 21; It. 17=Bdhd 87=S. II, 185. There are 3 principal cycles or aeons: mahā°, asaṅkheyya°, antara°; each mahā° consists of 4 asaṅkheyya-kappas, viz. saṃvaṭṭa° saṃvaṭṭaṭṭhāyi° vivaṭṭa° vivaṭṭaṭṭhāyi° A. II, 142; often abbreviated to saṃvaṭṭa-vivaṭṭa° D. I, 14; It. 15; frequent in formula ekampijātiṃ, etc. Vin. III, 4=D. III, 51, 111= It. 99. On pubbanta° & aparanta°, past & future kappas see D. I, 12 sq. paṭhama-kappe at the beginning of the world, once upon a time (cp. atīte) J. I, 207. When kappa stands by itself, a Mahā-kappa is understood: DA. I, 162. A whole, complete kappa is designated by kevala° Sn. pp. 18=46~125; Sn. 517; also dīgha° S. II, 181; Sdhp. 257. For similes as to the enormous length of a kappa see S. II, 181 & DA. I, 164=PvA. 254.—Acc. kappaṃ adv. : for a long time D. II, 103=115= Ud. 62, quot. at DA. I, 103; Vin. II, 198; It. 17; Miln. 108; mayi āyukappaṃ J. I, 119, cp. Miln. 141. Cp. saṅkappa.
1) kappa (ကပ္ပ) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[kappa+gatikā．kappaṃ gacchatīti kappagatā,sā eva kappagatikā．pā,yo．12va．]
[ကပ္ပ+ဂတိကာ။ ကပ္ပံ ဂစ္ဆတီတိ ကပ္ပဂတာ၊ သာ ဧဝ ကပ္ပဂတိကာ။ ပါစိတ်၊ ယော။ ၁၂ဝ။]
2) kappa (ကပ္ပ) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[kappa+vināsa]
[ကပ္ပ+ဝိနာသ]
3) kappa (ကပ္ပ) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[kappa+a．kappasaddo panāyaṃ saupasaggo anupasaggo cāti adhippāyena okappaniyapade labbhamānaṃ kappasaddamattaṃ dasseti,aññathā kappapadaṃ anidassanameva siyā．saṃ,ṭī,1．43．]
[ကပ္ပ+အ။ ကပ္ပသဒ္ဒေါ ပနာယံ သဥပသဂ္ဂေါ အနုပသဂ္ဂေါ စာတိ အဓိပ္ပါယေန ဩကပ္ပနိယပဒေ လဗ္ဘမာနံ ကပ္ပသဒ္ဒမတ္တံ ဒဿေတိ၊ အညထာ ကပ္ပပဒံ အနိဒဿနမေဝ သိယာ။ သံ၊ ဋီ၊ ၁။ ၄၃။]
[Pali to Burmese]
1) kappa—
(Burmese text): (၁) ကြံစည်ခြင်း၊ ဝိတက်။ (၂) တဏှာ,ဒိဋ္ဌိ။ (၃) စီရင်ခြင်း။ (၄) (က) ကပ္ပထေရ်။ (ခ) ကပ္ပလုလင်။ (၅) ကြံဆသူ (ရသေ့)။ (၆) အချိန်ကာလ။ (၇) ရဟန်းတို့၏ ကပ္ပိခြင်း (သမဏဝေါဟာရ)။ (၈) ထက်ဝန်းကျင်။ (၉) ပဒပူရဏ၊ ဖြည့်ပုဒ်။ (၁ဝ) ယုံကြည်ခြင်း။ (၁၁) ဖြတ်ခြင်း။ (၁၂) ယှဉ်ခြင်း၊ ကပ်ရောက်ခြင်း။ (၁၃) ကပ္ပဗိန္ဒု၊ ကပ္ပဗိန္ဒုထိုးခြင်း (ဝိနည်းကံ)။ (၁၄) အမြွက်၊ အကြောင်းမဟုတ်ပဲ အကြောင်းပြစရာအနည်းငယ် တစ်စုံတစ်ခု။ (ယိုးမယ်ဖွဲ့ခြင်း)။ (၁၅) တစ်မျိုးတစ်ဖုံ ကြံဆခြင်း၊ အဓိပ္ပါယ် တစ်မျိုး ကောက်ယူခြင်း။ (၁၆) အပ်စပ်သောပစ္စည်း။ (၁၇) ကပ္ပကျမ်း၊ ယဇ်ပူဇော်ခြင်း အစီအရင်ကို ညွှန်ပြသော ကျမ်း။ (၁၈) သွားခြင်းစသော ဟန်ပန်အမူအရာ။ (၁၉) အခွင့်၊ အမိန့်။ (၂ဝ) ပျက်စီးစေလိုခြင်း၊ ညှဉ်းဆဲလိုခြင်း။ (၂၁) ယုဂ် (ဗေဒင်သုံး 'သက္ကရာဇ်'တစ်မျိုး)။ (၂၂) အသက် အပိုင်း အခြား၊ အာယုကပ်၊ သက်တမ်း။ (၂၃) အန္တရကပ်။ (၂၄) အသင်္ချေယျကပ်။ (၂၅) မဟာကပ်။ (၂၆) ကပ်၊ ကမ္ဘာ။ (၂၇) အကိုင်းအခက်။ (တိ) (၂၈) အတူ။ (၂၉) စဉ်းငယ် ယုတ်လျော့သော။ မူရင်းကြည့်ပါ။
(Auto-Translation): (1) Planning, strategy. (2) Intelligence, wisdom. (3) Decision-making. (4) (a) Capital letter. (b) Capital city. (5) Planner (progenitor). (6) Time period. (7) The capital of monks (Buddhist terminology). (8) Environment. (9) Restatement, completion phrase. (10) Belief. (11) Cutting. (12) Comparison, correlation. (13) Capital punishment, capital punishment substitution (divisional astrology). (14) Substance, a minor justification for something unrelated. (Joke formation). (15) Various methods of planning, deriving one meaning. (16) Attached items. (17) Capital scriptures, a scripture indicating offerings and worship. (18) Behavior such as going. (19) Opportunity, command. (20) Desire for destruction, urgency. (21) Yoga (a type of 'era' in astrology). (22) Vitality segment, longevity capital, lifespan. (23) Anti-capital. (24) Asynchronous capital. (25) Maha capital. (26) Capital, world. (27) Adherence. (Exact) (28) Together. (29) Hesitant, negative. Please refer to the original.
2) kappa—
(Burmese text): ကမ္ဘာပျက်ခြင်း။
(Auto-Translation): World destruction.
3) kappa—
(Burmese text): အပ်သည်၏အဖြစ်သို့ ရောက်ပြီးသော၊ ရဟန်းပြုပေးကောင်းသော၊ သူ။ (တိတ္ထိတို့ထံ ရှင်ပြုဖူးသော မိန်းမ၊ အခြားသော ဘိက္ခုနီတို့ထံ ရှင်ပြုဖူးသော မိန်းမ)။
(Auto-Translation): He who has reached the state of enlightenment, a noble one, (the woman who has paid respect to the Buddha, the woman who has paid respect to other enlightened beings).
Kappa (in Pali) can be associated with the following Chinese terms:
1) 劫 [jié]: “eon”.
2) 所至 [suǒ zhì]: “accepted”.
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.
Marathi-English dictionary
kappā (कप्पा).—& kappī See kapā & kapī.
Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.
Prakrit-English dictionary
1) Kappa (कप्प) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Kṛṣ.
2) Kappa (कप्प) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Kalpa.
3) Kappa (कप्प) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Kalpya.
4) Kappa (कप्प) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Kalpa.
5) Kappa (कप्प) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Kalpa.
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.
Kannada-English dictionary
Kappa (ಕಪ್ಪ):—[noun] a regular payment of money, etc., made by one ruler or nation to another as acknowledgment of subjugation, for protection from invasion, etc.; tribute.
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Kappa (ಕಪ್ಪ):—[noun] a ring of gold or silver wire for the wrist or ankle, worn as an ornament or as the sign of a vow to a deity.
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Kappa (ಕಪ್ಪ):—
1) [noun] a hole, pit in the ground made to catch wild animals.
2) [noun] a deep, broad ditch dug around a farm, garden etc. for avoiding cattle coming in.
3) [noun] a water way for excess rain water to flow out of a areca field.
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Kappa (ಕಪ್ಪ):—
1) [noun] (dial.) a kind of bag made of woven or plaited hemp, straw, rope, etc.
2) [noun] a small compartment in a cupboard.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Nepali dictionary
Kappa (कप्प):—adv. (of sweets, etc.) to bolt;
Nepali is the primary language of the Nepalese people counting almost 20 million native speakers. The country of Nepal is situated in the Himalaya mountain range to the north of India.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches (+0): Gatika, Kappa, Vinasha, A.
Starts with (+26): Kappa kaluva, Kappa Sutta, Kappa thivva, Kappa-kolahala, Kappa-mavakuru, Kappa-mavu, Kappabhava, Kappabindu, Kappadigha, Kappagata, Kappaggi, Kappahalahala, Kappajala, Kappakala, Kappakappa, Kappakarana, Kappakasaya, Kappakata, Kappakoti, Kappakumara.
Full-text (+924): Kappavinasa, Akappa, Kappavinasaudaka, Kappura, Upakappati, Upakappa, Vikappana, Kappiya, Kappatthitika, Acinnakappa, Kalpa, Ayukappa, Kappavinasaka, Antarakappa, Pakappana, Vivatta Kappa, Mandakappa, Upakappatu, Pakappeti, Kappana.
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