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Pali-English dictionary

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

Mutoḷī, (?) a doubtful word occurring only in one stock phrase, viz. “ubhato-mukhā m. pūrā nānā-vihitassa dhaññassa” at M. I, 57 (vv. ll. putoḷi, mūṭolī)=III, 90 (mūtoḷī)=D. II, 293 (T. mutoli, v. l. muṭoli; gloss K pūtolī). The Dial. II. 330 trsl. “sample bag” (see note on this passage; with remark “spelling uncertain”). Neumann, Mittlere Sammlung I. 101 translates “Sack. ” ‹-› Kern, Toev. s. v. mutoḷī tries to connect it with BSk. moṭa (Hindi moṭh), bundle, which (with vv. ll. mūḍha, muṭa, mūṭa) occurs only in one stock phrase “bharaiḥ motaiḥ piṭakaiḥ” at Divy 5, 332, 501, 524. The more likely solution, however, is that mutoḷī is a distortion of puṭosā (puṭosa), which is found as v. l. to puṭaṃsa at all passages concerned (see puṭaṃsa). Thus the meaning is “bag, provision-bag. ” The BSk. moṭa (muṭa) remains to be elucidated. The same meaning “provision-bag” fits at Vism. 328 in cpd. yāna°, where spelling is T. °paṭṭoli, v. l. BB °putoḷi, but which is clearly identical with our term. We should thus prefer to read yāna-puṭosi “carriage-bag for provisions. ” (Page 537)

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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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