Pacchima, stage.zoweg.nl: 7 definitions
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Pacchima means something in Buddhism, Pali, Jainism, Prakrit. 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
Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)
Pacchimā (“west”) represents one of the “ten directions” (diś in Sanskrit or disā in Pali) according to an appendix included in the 2nd century Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra (chapter XIV). Pacchimā is a Pali word which is known in Sanskrit as paścimā, in Tibetan as nub and in Chinese as si.
Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
pacchima : (adj.) latest; hindmost; lowest; western.
Pacchima, (adj.) (Sk. paścima, superl. formation fr. *paśca, cp. pacchato & pacchā) 1. hindmost, hind-, back-, last (opp. purima), latest D. I, 239; M. I, 23 (°yāma the last night watch); DA. I, 45 sq. (id. °kicca duties or performances in the 3rd watch, corresp. to purima° & majjhima°); Sn. 352; J. IV, 137 (°pāda); VI, 364 (°dvāra); PvA. 5, 75.—2. western (opp. purima or puratthima) D. I, 153 (disā); S. I, 145.—3. lowest, meanest Vin. II, 108; M. I, 23; S. II, 203. (Page 386)
pacchima (ပစ္ဆိမ) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[pacchā+ima．anitthyanto pariyanto,pantoca pacchima]ntimā．．714．pacchābhavo pacchimo．,ṭī．714．pacchā jāto pacchimo．pa．353．rū．378．nīti,sutta．767．]
[ပစ္ဆာ+ဣမ။ အနိတ္ထျန္တော ပရိယန္တော၊ ပန္တောစ ပစ္ဆိမ'န္တိမာ။ ဓာန်။၇၁၄။ပစ္ဆာဘဝေါ ပစ္ဆိမော။ ဓာန်၊ဋီ။၇၁၄။ ပစ္ဆာ ဇာတော ပစ္ဆိမော။ ပစ္စည်း။ ၃၅၃။ရူ။၃၇၈။ နီတိ၊သုတ္တ။၇၆၇။]
[Pali to Burmese]
pacchima—
(Burmese text): (၁) နောက်၌-နောက်ဆုံး-ဖြစ်သော (က) အသေး-အငယ်-ဆုံးဖြစ်သော။ (ခ) အနည်းဆုံးဖြစ်သော။ (ဂ) အနည်းကပ်ဆုံးဖြစ်သော။ (ဃ) အယုတ်-အညံ့-ဆုံးဖြစ်သော။ (င) နောက်၌ဖြစ်သော-ယုတ်ညံ့သော-လိင်၊ ဣတ္ထိလိင်။ (၂) အနောက်၊ အနောက်အရပ်၌ ဖြစ်သော။
(Auto-Translation): (1) Last - the final (a) smallest. (b) least. (c) least negligible. (d) most undesirable. (e) last in terms of undesirable gender, particularly gender. (2) Western, occurring in the western area.
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
1) Pacchima (पच्छिम) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Paścima.
2) Pacchimā (पच्छिमा) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Paścimā.
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.
Nepali dictionary
1) Pacchima (पच्छिम):—n. → पश्चिम [paścima]
2) Pacchimā (पच्छिमा):—adj. → पश्चिमा [paścimā]
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)
Starts with (+28): Pacchima Bodhi, Pacchima dhamma, Pacchimaangappadesa, Pacchimabandhana, Pacchimabhaga, Pacchimabhava, Pacchimabhimukha, Pacchimabhitti, Pacchimabuddhavacana, Pacchimacakkadvaya, Pacchimacakkavala, Pacchimacakkavalapabbata, Pacchimacankamanakoti, Pacchimacatukka, Pacchimacetana, Pacchimachaya, Pacchimacitta, Pacchimacivara, Pacchimadasaka, Pacchimadassana.
Full-text (+132): Pacchimadesa, Pacchimika, Pacchimuttara, Pacchimanisajja, Pacchimachaya, Pacchimabhitti, Pacchimacankamanakoti, Pacchimakoti, Pabbajjapacchimaka, Pacchimaka, Pacchimasimappamana, Dakkhinapacchimadisa, Pashcima, Pacchimarama, Pacchimapassa, Pacchimasana, Pacchimavada, Pacchimacakkavalapabbata, Pacchimavakya, Pacchimatthana.
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Patthana Dhamma (by Htoo Naing)
Chapter 13 - Upanissaya paccayo (or decisive support condition)
Chapter 9 - Samanantara paccayo (or contiguity condition)
Chapter 15 - Paccchājāta paccayo (or postnascence condition)
Vinaya Pitaka (1): Bhikkhu-vibhanga (the analysis of Monks’ rules) (by I. B. Horner)
Monks’ Expulsion (Pārājika) 2: Origin story < [Monks’ Expulsion (Pārājika) 2]
Monks’ Forfeiture (Nissaggiya) 1
Monks’ Expulsion (Pārājika) 1: The origin of the Vinaya < [Monks’ Expulsion (Pārājika) 1]
Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra (by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön)
Appendix 2 - The ten directions (diś) < [Chapter XIV - Emission of rays]
Vinaya (3): The Cullavagga (by T. W. Rhys Davids)
Cullavagga, Khandaka 5, Chapter 3 < [Khandaka 5 - On the Daily Life of the Bhikkhus]
Maha Buddhavamsa—The Great Chronicle of Buddhas (by Ven. Mingun Sayadaw)
Part 2 - Five Series of The Buddha’s Activities < [Chapter 29 - The Buddha’s Eleventh Vassa at Brahmin Village of Nāḷa]
Part 1 - Introduction (story of Māra near Pañcasālā) < [Chapter 35 - Story of Māra]
Chapter 34d - The Buddha’s Twentieth Vassa at Rājagaha < [Volume 4]
Buddhist Perspective on the Development of Social Welfare (by Ashin Indacara)
5. The Duty of House Wife and Balanced Livelihood < [Chapter 3 - The Accomplishment of Balanced Livelihood (Sama-jīvitā or Jīvikatā)]