Pakkhipati: 2 definitions

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Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionary

pakkhipati : (pa + khip + a) puts in; encloses in; throws into.

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

Pakkhipati, (pa+ kṣip, in sense of putting down carefully cp. nikkhipati & BSk. prakṣipati to start a ship Divy 334) 1. to put down into (with Loc. of receptacle), place into, enclose in (often used for ceremony of putting a corpse into a shell or mount) D. II, 162 (tela-doṇiyā Bhagavato sarīraṃ p.); S. II, 85; J. II, 210 (mukhe); Miln. 247 (Amat’osadhaṃ); PvA. 41 (atthikāni thūpe p.); DhA. I, 71 (the corpse into the fire).—2. to throw into, hurl into, in Niraya-passage at M. III, 183=A. I, 141= Nd2 304III; cp. nikkhipati.—3. (fig.) to include in, insert, arrange, interpolate Miln. 13 (Abhidhammapiṭakaṃ kusalā dhammā, akusalā dh. , avyākatā dh. ti tīsu padesu p.).—Caus. II. pakkhipāpeti J. I, 467; DA. I, 136.—pp. pakkhitta (q. v.). (Page 381)

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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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