Takka, Ṭākkā: 15 definitions
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Takka means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit, Marathi, Jainism, Prakrit, Tamil. 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 Hinduism
Kavya (poetry)
Takka (तक्क) is the name a locality mentioned in Rājaśekhara’s 10th-century Kāvyamīmāṃsā.—This region laying between two rivers the Vipāsā and the Sindhu. It was the country of Vāhikas. Sakala was the capital of the Takka-deśa, which included the Madra and Aratta countries. Kalhaṇa in his Rājatarañginī locates this region on the banks of the Chenab or Candrabhāga. To Rājaśekhara, the people of this region used to talk in a language which had an admixture of Apabhraṃśa.
Kavya (काव्य, kavya) refers to Sanskrit poetry, a popular ancient Indian tradition of literature. There have been many Sanskrit poets over the ages, hailing from ancient India and beyond. This topic includes mahakavya, or ‘epic poetry’ and natya, or ‘dramatic poetry’.
In Buddhism
Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
A city in India twelve leagues from Kavirapattana. It was the residence of monks. Ras.ii.108.
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).
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
takka : (m.) thought; reasoning; logic. (nt.), butter-milk.
1) Takka, 2 (nt.) (Should it not belong to the same root as takka1?) buttermilk (with 1/4 water), included in the five products from a cow (pañca gorasā) at Vin. I, 244; made by churning dadhi Miln. 173; J. I, 340; II, 363; DhA. II, 68 (takkâdi-ambila). (Page 292)
2) Takka, 1 (Sk. tarka doubt; science of logic (lit. “turning & twisting”) *treik, cp. Lat. tricæ, intricare (to “trick, ” puzzle), & also Sk. tarku bobbin, spindle, Lat. torqueo (torture, turn)) doubt; a doubtful view (often= diṭṭhi, appl. like sammā°, micchā-diṭṭhi), hair-splitting reasoning, sophistry (=itihītihaṃ Nd2 151). Opp. to takka (=micchā-saṅkappo Vbh. 86, 356) is dhammatakka right thought (: vuccati sammā-saṅkappo Nd2 318; cp. Dhs. 7, 298), D. I, 16 (°pariyāhata); M. I, 68 (id.); Sn. 209 (°ṃ pahāya na upeti saṅkhaṃ) 885 (doubt), 886; Dhs. 7, 21, 298 (+vitakka, trsl. as “ratiocination” by Mrs. Rh. D.); Vbh. 86, 237 (sammā°) 356; Vism. 189. See also vitakka.
1) takka (တက္က) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[taka+ka．takkamhīti ettha takkoti eko ayomayo suttakantanassa upakaraṇaviseso．so hitakīyati suttaṃ bandhīyati etthaç etenāti vā takkoti vuccati．pā,yo,1．123．kati+ta．kati suttajanane．nīti,dhā．67．takka(2) vipallāsapru．]
[တက+က။ တက္ကမှီတိ ဧတ္ထ တက္ကောတိ ဧကော အယောမယော သုတ္တကန္တနဿ ဥပကရဏဝိသေသော။ သော ဟိတကီယတိ သုတ္တံ ဗန္ဓီယတိ ဧတ္ထ,ဧတေနာတိ ဝါ တက္ကောတိ ဝုစ္စတိ။ ပါစိတ်၊ ယော၊ ၁။ ၁၂၃။ ကတိ+တ။ ကတိ သုတ္တဇနနေ။ နီတိ၊ ဓာ။ ၆၇။ တက္က(၂) ကဲ့သို့ ဝိပလ္လာသပြု။]
2) takka (တက္က) [(pu,na) (ပု၊န)]—
[kamu (icchākantīsu)+ta．ādiantakkharavipallāsavasena saddasiddhi,yathā ]]kantanaṭṭhena takka]]nti．nīti,dhā．216．(-355)．saddatthato pana yathā kantanatthena ādiantavipallāsato takkaṃ vuccati．thera,ṭṭha,1．6．ti+ka．takkaṃ tu mathitaṃpyatha．tīṇi kāni jalabhāgāni ettha santīti takkaṃ,issattaṃç dvittañca．．．．takkaṃ tibhāgasaṃyuttaṃ．．,ṭī．5vava．amara．19,53．catuthīvaṃgajalavasaṃyukte dadhini,gorasaje,daṇḍāhate,kālaseye．cintāmaṇi．(takra-saṃ)]
[ကမု (ဣစ္ဆာကန္တီသု)+တ။ အာဒိအန္တက္ခရဝိပလ္လာသဝသေန သဒ္ဒသိဒ္ဓိ၊ ယထာ ＂ကန္တနဋ္ဌေန တက္က＂န္တိ။ နီတိ၊ ဓာ။ ၂၁၆။ (-၃၅၅)။ သဒ္ဒတ္ထတော ပန ယထာ ကန္တနတ္ထေန အာဒိအန္တဝိပလ္လာသတော တက္ကံ ဝုစ္စတိ။ ထေရ၊ ဋ္ဌ၊ ၁။ ၆။ တိ+က။ တက္ကံ တု မထိတံပျထ။ တီဏိ ကာနိ ဇလဘာဂါနိ ဧတ္ထ သန္တီတိ တက္ကံ၊ ဣဿတ္တံ,ဒွိတ္တဉ္စ။．．．တက္ကံ တိဘာဂသံယုတ္တံ။ ဓာန်။ ဓာန်၊ ဋီ။ ၅ဝဝ။ အမရ။ ၁၉၊ ၅၃။ စတုထီဝံဂဇလဝသံယုက္တေ ဒဓိနိ၊ ဂေါရသဇေ၊ ဒဏ္ဍာဟတေ၊ ကာလသေယေ။ စိန္တာမဏိ။ (တကြ-သံ)]
3) takka (တက္က) [(pu,na) (ပု၊န)]—
[takka+a．(,ṭī．155．nīti,dhā．281-)．(takī-saṃ)]
[တက္က+အ။ (ဓာန်၊ဋီ။၁၅၅။ နီတိ၊ ဓာ။ ၂၈၁-ကြည့်)။ (တကီ-သံ)]
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.
Marathi-English dictionary
ṭakkā (टक्का).—& ṭakkēṭōṇapē See ṭakā & ṭakēṭōṇapē.
Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.
Sanskrit dictionary
1) Ṭakka (टक्क):—m. a niggard (?), [Kathāsaritsāgara lxv] (cf. ṭāka, ṭhakka)
2) m. [plural] a Bāhīka people, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.] (kva).
Ṭakka (टक्क):—m. wohl Geizhals, Filz [Kathāsaritsāgara 65, 140. 143. fg. 152. 154.] ṭhaka im Mahrattischen bedeutet a knave, rogue, cheat.
Ṭakka (टक्क):—m. wohl Geizhals , Filz.
Ṭakka (टक्क) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Ṭakka.
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
Prakrit-English dictionary
1) Ṭakka (टक्क) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Ṭakka.
2) Ṭakka (टक्क) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Ṭakka.
3) Takka (तक्क) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Tark.
4) Takka (तक्क) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Takra.
5) Takka (तक्क) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Tarka.
6) Takkā (तक्का) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Tarka.
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.
Kannada-English dictionary
Ṭakka (ಟಕ್ಕ):—[adjective] of the nature of cheating; tending to deceive (another or others).
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Ṭakka (ಟಕ್ಕ):—
1) [noun] a man who cheats; a cheat; a deceiver.
2) [noun] a man who steals, esp. secretly and without violence.
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Takka (ತಕ್ಕ):—
1) [adjective] suited to its purpose; being in accordance with; appropriate; fitting; apt.
2) [adjective] as much as needed; equal to what is specified or required; enough.
3) [adjective] legally or officially qualified or designated; competent.
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Takka (ತಕ್ಕ):—
1) [noun] a man who is suited for a purpose; an able, competent man.
2) [noun] a good, honourable, respectable man.
3) [noun] (masc.) a friend or well-wisher.
4) [noun] (masc.) the chief of a village or town.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Tamil dictionary
Ṭākkā (டாக்கா) noun < Hindustain tāgnā. Basting; மேலோட்டுத் தையல். [melottuth thaiyal.] Local usage
Tamil is an ancient language of India from the Dravidian family spoken by roughly 250 million people mainly in southern India and Sri Lanka.
Nepali dictionary
Ṭakka (टक्क):—adv. to stop suddenly; to come to a standstill;
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)
Partial matches: Ka, A, Takka, Taka.
Starts with (+21): Dhakkamukki, Takka Jataka, Takka-pikkaenal, Takkaali, Takkabharita, Takkabharitacati, Takkabhati, Takkabikki, Takkabindu, Takkabuddhi, Takkabyakaranadisippa, Takkacati, Takkacca, Takkadadhibindu, Takkadesa, Takkadeshiya, Takkadi, Takkadiambilasamayoga, Takkagahana, Takkagama.
Full-text (+144): Takkadesa, Takkadeshiya, Takki, Takkola, Vitakka, Takkaya, Takkasila, Vitakketi, Takketi, Vitakkana, Vitakkita, Vitakkesi, Vitakkessasi, Vitakketva, Takketva, Takka-pikkaenal, Atakka, Anuvitakketi, Takkahetu, Takkavacara.
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Buddhist records of the Western world (Xuanzang) (by Samuel Beal)
Chapter 1 - Country of Tseh-kia (Takka) < [Book IV - Fifteen Countries]
Chapter 8 - Country of Ho-lo-she-pu-lo (Rajapuri) < [Book III - Eight Countries]
The Sun-Worshipping Sakadvipiya Brahmanas (by Martina Palladino)
Harijans of Mehesana < [July 1960]
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Chapter LXV < [Book X - Śaktiyaśas]
Dictionaries of Indian languages (Kosha)
Page 867 < [Hindi-Malayalam-English Volume 1]
Page 300 < [Tamil-English-Bengali (1 volume)]
Page 587 < [Hindi-Malayalam-English Volume 1]
Maha Buddhavamsa—The Great Chronicle of Buddhas (by Ven. Mingun Sayadaw)
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