Pakkhika: 4 definitions
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Pakkhika means something in Buddhism, Pali. 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.
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Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionarypakkhika : (adj.) belonging to a faction; siding with; fortnightly.
Source: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English DictionaryPakkhika, (adj.) (for pakkhiya=Ved. pakṣya of pakkha1 3) 1. belonging or referring to the (2) lunar fortnights, fortnightly, for a fortnight or in the (specified) fortnight of the month (cp. Vin. Texts III, 220). As one special provision of food mentioned in enumeration of five bhojanāni, viz. niccabhatta, salākabhatta, pakkhika, uposathika, pāṭipadika, Vin. I, 58=II. 175; IV, 75; J. II, 210; Vism. 66.—2. (cp. pakkha 2 & pakkhin 2) contributing to, leading to, associated with, siding with (-°) Vism. 130, in phrase vighāta° anibbāna-saṃvattanika associated with destruction, etc. M. I, 115; DhsA. 382. Also in mūga° leading to deafness J. I, 45 (V. 254). ‹-› DhA. I, 82 (paramattha-sacca°). (Page 381)
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Pakkhika, (adj.) (for pakkhiya=Ved. pakṣya of pakkha1 3) 1. belonging or referring to the (2) lunar fortnights, fortnightly, for a fortnight or in the (specified) fortnight of the month (cp. Vin. Texts III, 220). As one special provision of food mentioned in enumeration of five bhojanāni, viz. niccabhatta, salākabhatta, pakkhika, uposathika, pāṭipadika, Vin. I, 58=II. 175; IV, 75; J. II, 210; Vism. 66.—2. (cp. pakkha 2 & pakkhin 2) contributing to, leading to, associated with, siding with (-°) Vism. 130, in phrase vighāta° anibbāna-saṃvattanika associated with destruction, etc. M. I, 115; DhsA. 382. Also in mūga° leading to deafness J. I, 45 (V. 254). ‹-› DhA. I, 82 (paramattha-sacca°). (Page 381)
Source: Sutta: Pali Word Grammar from Pali Myanmar Dictionary1) pakkhika (ပက္ခိက) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[pakkha+ika．]ika] amarhi．]
[ပက္ခ+ဣက။ 'ဣက' အနက်မရှိ။]
2) pakkhika (ပက္ခိက) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[pakkha(1)+ika]
[ပက္ခ(၁)+ဣက]
[Pali to Burmese]
Source: Sutta: Tipiṭaka Pāḷi-Myanmar Dictionary (တိပိဋက-ပါဠိမြန်မာ အဘိဓာန်)1) pakkhika—
(Burmese text): (၁) အသင်းအပင်း၌-ဖြစ်သော-ပါဝင်သော။ (၂) ပက္ခရက်တို့၌ ပေးလှူအပ်သော၊ နေ့ထူး နေ့မြတ်ဟူ၍ သတ်မှတ်ထားအပ်သော ၅-ရက်,၈-ရက်,၁၄-ရက်,၁၅-ရက် နေ့တို့၌ ပေးလှူအပ်သော၊ တပက္ခ-၁၅ရက်-တစ်ကြိမ်ပေးလှူအပ်သော (ဆွမ်း)။
(Auto-Translation): (1) In the assembly - participating - included. (2) On specific days designated as special or significant, such as the 5th, 8th, 14th, and 15th days, offerings are made, with donations given once every 15 days (alms).
2) pakkhika—
(Burmese text): ဆွံ့သော၊ ခြေမသန်စွမ်းသော၊ မထနိုင် မသွားနိုင်သော၊ သူ။
(Auto-Translation): Pathetic, powerless, unable to stand or walk, that person.
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.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Starts with: Pakkhikabhatta, Pakkhikayana.
Full-text: Matapitipakkhika, Vighatapakkhika, Ulukapakkhika, Pakkhikabhatta, Apakkhika, Upacarajjhanapakkhika, Dassanapakkhika, Appativibhagapakkhika, Niyyanikapakkha, Kusalapakkha, Ulukapakshika, Pratipakshika, Pakkhin, Patipadaka, Bodhipakshya, Sambodha, Bodhipakshika, Bodhi, Vassa.
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