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Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper Names

1. Kosika, Kosiya - A rock near Himava where Narada Kassapa had a hermitage. Ap.ii.381.

2. Kosiya: The wicked wife of the Kosiya Jataka 1.

3. Kosiya, Kosiyagotta: The name of a brahmin clan. In the Pacittiya it is given as one of the lower gottas. (Vin.iv.8; but it is also Sakkas gotta, and is therefore generally regarded as a high one; see e.g., Thag.415; ThagA.i.452).

Katiyanas father was a Kosiyan, but he married a woman of the Katiyana family (ThagA.i.452). The Bhuridatta Jataka (J.vi.181; Mtu.ii.49) mentions a sage Kosiya, who taught Alambayana the Naga spell. The scholiast says he belonged to the Kosiyagotta. The Salikedara Jataka (J.iv.278f) mentions a brahmin of Salindiya, called Kosiyagotta, probably for the same reason.

The Kosiya Jataka (J.i.465f) speaks of a Kosiya brahmani. All these are either addressed or spoken of as Kosiya in their different contexts. The name Kosiya is also used twice in speaking of Sakka - once by the Buddha (D.ii.270), once by Maha Moggallana (M.i.252) - and again by Guttila (J.ii.252) and by Maha Kassapa (Ud.iii.7; UdA.200; DhA.i.429).

4. Kosiyagotta: An arahant. He is mentioned in a list of theras who handed down the Abhidhamma up to the Third Council. DhsA., p.32.

5. Kosiya - See Macchari Kosiya.

6. Kosiya Thera - An arahant. He belonged to a brahmin family in Magadha and was called by his gotta name. He often listened to the preaching of Sariputta and, joining the Order, in due course won arahant ship. He was a gate keeper of Bandhumati and in the time of Vipassi Buddha gave to the Buddha a piece of sugar cane. (Thag.370-4; ThagA.i.431f).

He is probably identical with Ucchukandika of the Apadana. Ap.ii.393.

7. Kosiya - See Nanda Manava.

context information

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).

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Pali-English dictionary

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

Kosiya, an owl J. II, 353, cp. Np. Kosiyāyana J. I, 496. Biḷārakosika (and °kosiya) J. IV, 69. (Page 230)

Source: Sutta: Pali Word Grammar from Pali Myanmar Dictionary

1) kosiya (ကောသိယ) [(pu,na) (ပု၊န)]—
[kosa+iya．kosiya+ṇa．kosasaṅkhātāni dhanāni santiyassa so kosiyo,]]kosiyagottatāya kosiyo]]ti ca vadanti．,ṭī．2va．]
[ကောသ+ဣယ။ ကောသိယ+ဏ။ ကောသသင်္ခါတာနိ ဓနာနိ သန္တိယဿ သော ကောသိယော၊ ＂ကောသိယဂေါတ္တတာယ ကောသိယော＂တိ စ ဝဒန္တိ။ ဓာန်၊ဋီ။၂ဝ။]

2) kosiya (ကောသိယ) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[kusa+ṇya．koṭara+iya．kusa akkose,yassa amanāpatāya saddena lokā kosanti,so kosiyoç kositabboti katvā,koṭare vasatīti vā kosiyo,nerutto．,ṭī．638．]
[ကုသ+ဏျ။ ကောဋရ+ဣယ။ ကုသ အက္ကောသေ၊ ယဿ အမနာပတာယ သဒ္ဒေန လောကာ ကောသန္တိ၊ သော ကောသိယော,ကောသိတဗ္ဗောတိ ကတွာ၊ ကောဋရေ ဝသတီတိ ဝါ ကောသိယော၊ နေရုတ္တော။ ဓာန်၊ဋီ။၆၃၈။]

context information

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.

Prakrit-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary

1) Kosiya (कोसिय) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Kauśika.

2) Kosiyā (कोसिया) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Kośikā.

context information

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.

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