Katapunna, Katapuñña, Kata-punna: 4 definitions

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katapuñña : (adj.) one who has performed meritorious actions.

Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionary

Katapuñña refers to: one who has done good deeds, a good man D. II, 144; Dh. 16, 18, 220; Pv III, 52; Miln. 129; PvA. 5, 176; a° one who has not done good (in previous lives) Miln. 250; VvA. 94.

Note: katapuñña is a Pali compound consisting of the words kata and puñña.

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

katapuñña (ကတပုည) [(na) (န)]—
[kata+puñña]
[ကတ+ပုည]

Source: Sutta: Pali Word Grammar from Pali Myanmar Dictionary

[Pali to Burmese]

katapuñña—

(Burmese text): (၁) ပြုခဲ့-ဆည်းပူးခဲ့-ပြီးသော ကုသိုလ်ကောင်းမှု။ (တိ) (၂) ပြုခဲ့-ဆည်းပူးခဲ့-သော ကုသိုလ်ကောင်းမှုရှိသော၊ ကုသိုလ်ကောင်းမှုကို ပြုခဲ့ပြီးသော၊ ဆုတောင်းနှင့်ပြည့်စုံသော၊ သူ။

(Auto-Translation): (1) The good deed that has been done and completed. (2) The one who has the good deed that has been done, who has completed the good deed, and who is full of blessings.

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