Tittha, Tiṭṭha: 6 definitions
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In Hinduism
Kavya (poetry)
Tittha (तित्थ) in Prakrit (or Tīrtha in Sanskrit) refers to a “holy place”, as is mentioned in the Vividhatīrthakalpa by Jinaprabhasūri (13th century A.D.): an ancient text devoted to various Jaina holy places (tīrthas).—Cf. loia; -to reveal a holy place: titthaṃ payāsia [(9) 18.5], § 1;—bring to light a tīrtha: titthaṃ pabhāvesi [(59) 104.32], § 2;—manifest a holy place: payadam tittham kāhī [(6) 12.26], v. 56, etc.
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’.
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
tittha : (nt.) a fording or landing place; a harbour; a belief.
Tiṭṭha, (adj.) (pp. of tasati1) dry, hard, rough J. VI, 212 (°sela hard rock). (Page 301)
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Tittha, (nt.) (Vedic tīrtha, from *ter, tarate, to pass through, orig. passage (through a river), ford) 1. a fording place, landing place, which made a convenient bathing place D. II, 89=Vin. I, 230 (Gotama° the G. ford); J. I, 339, 340 (titthāraṇa); II, 111; III, 228 (°nāvika ferryman); 230 (nāvā° a ferry); IV, 379; Pv. II, 120; III, 64; IV, 122 (su°); Dāvs. V. 59 (harbour). Titthaṃ jānāti to know a “fording place, ” i.e. a means or a person to help over a difficulty or doubt M. I, 223=A. V, 349 (neg.) 2. a sect (always with bad connotation. Promising to lead its votaries over into salvation, it only leads them into error).
—âyatana the sphere or fold of a sect (cp. titthiya) Vin. I, 60, 69; II, 279; M. I, 483; A. I, 173; Pug. 22; Dhs. 381, 1003 (cp. Dhs. trsl. p. 101n); DA. I, 118; Ledi Sadaw in J. P. T. S. 1913, 117—118;—kara a “ford-maker, ” founder of a sect D. I, 47, 116; M. I, 198; Sn. pp. 90, 92; Miln. 4, 6, etc.;—ññutā knowledge of a ford, in fig. sense of titthaṃ jānāti (see above) Nett 29, 80. (Page 302)
1) tittha (တိတ္ထ) [(na) (န)]—
[tara+tha=．tara taraṇe,assa ittaṃ,pararūpādi,tarantunenāti titthaṃ,najjādiṃ yenāvataranti,taṃ．ṇvādi．88．(-nīti,dhā．15va．sūci．dhātvattha．159)．(tīthī-saṃ)]
[တရ+ထ=ထက်။ တရ တရဏေ၊ အဿ ဣတ္တံ၊ ပရရူပါဒိ၊ တရန္တုနေနာတိ တိတ္ထံ၊ နဇ္ဇာဒိံ ယေနာဝတရန္တိ၊ တံ။ ဏွာဒိ။ ၈၈။ (-နီတိ၊ ဓာ။ ၁၅ဝ။ သူစိ။ ဓာတွတ္ထ။ ၁၅၉)။ (တီထီ-သံ)]
2) tiṭṭha (တိဋ္ဌ) [(kri) (ကြိ)]—
[ṭhā+a+hi．hi- khye．(ka．479．rū．452．nīti,sutta．96va-)．]
[ဌာ+အ+ဟိ။ ဟိ-ကို ချေ။ (ကစ္စည်း။ ၄၇၉။ ရူ။ ၄၅၂။ နီတိ၊ သုတ္တ။ ၉၆ဝ-ကြည့်)။]
[Pali to Burmese]
1) tittha—
(Burmese text): (၁) ဆိပ်၊ (က) ရေဆိပ်၊ ရေချိုးဆိပ်၊ ရေခပ်ဆိပ်။ (ခ) ရေသောက်ဆိပ်။ ပါနတိတ္ထ-လည်းကြည့်။ (ဂ) လှေ-စသော ရေယာဉ် ဆိုက်ကပ်ရာရေစပ်။ (ဃ) လှည်းစသော ကုန်းယာဉ်စခန်းချရာကုန်းဆိပ်။ (၂) ဆိပ်ကမ်း။ တိတ္ထဂါမ-ကြည့်။ (၃) ရေဆိပ်နှင့်တူသော။ (၄) ရေ၊ (က) ဆိပ်ကမ်း၏ အနီး၌ဖြစ်သောရေ။ (ခ) စင်ကြယ်-သန့်ရှင်း-သော ရေ။ (၅) ၆၂-ပါးသော မိစ္ဆာအယူ၊ အယူ-ဝါဒ-လမ်းစဉ်-မှား။ တိတ္ထကရ-(၁)-လည်းကြည့်။ (၆) အယူ-ဝါဒ-လမ်းစဉ်-မှန်။ တိတ္ထကရ-(၁)-ကြည့်။ (၇) ရေချိုးဆိပ်၌ စွန့်ပစ်အပ်သော-အဝတ်ဟောင်း-အဝတ်ပိုင်း။ တိတ္ထစောဠ,တိတ္ထစောဠက-တို့ကြည့်။ (ဂ) စတုပါရိသုဒ္ဓိသီလ။ (၉) အရိယမဂ်၊ အရဟတ္တမဂ်။ (၁ဝ) နာယူ-သင်ကြား-အပ်သော ပရိယတ်တရား။ ဓမ္မတိတ္ထ-လည်းကြည့်။ (၁၁) ပရိယတ်တရားရှိသူ၊ အကြားအမြင်များသူ၊ ဗဟုဿုတပုဂ္ဂိုလ်၊ ဆရား။ တိတ္ထညူ-လည်းကြည့်။ (၁၂) အကြောင်း 'ဥပါယ်'။ (၁၃) ရေဆိပ်ပမာသက်ဝင်သင့်သောအရာ။ တိတ္ထကုသလ-ကြည့်။ (၁၄) ကျမ်းဂန်။
(Auto-Translation): (1) Shore, (a) River shore, bathing shore, waterway shore. (b) Drinking water shore. See also "Panadita." (c) Vessels such as boats anchoring at the shore. (d) Ferries, such as to ferry passengers, anchoring at the shore. (2) Port. See "Taik Tagama." (3) Similar to a river shore. (4) Water, (a) Water that is near the port. (b) Pure and clean water. (5) The 62 heretical beliefs, mistaken doctrinal paths. See "Taik Takara" - (1) also. (6) Correct doctrinal path. See "Taik Takara" - (1). (7) Old clothes thrown away at the bathing shore. See "Taik Tasokha," "Taik Tasokha" also. (h) The Four Pillars of Disciplinary Conduct. (9) Arahant, the revered one. (10) The teaching of the principles that are instructed while suffering. See also "Dhamma Taik Ta." (11) One who possesses principles, one with insight, the ordinary person, the speaker. See also "Taik Nyoo." (12) The reason 'Upay.' (13) Things that are essential for surviving by the river shore. See also "Taik Kuthala." (14) Scripture.
2) tiṭṭha—
(Burmese text): (က) တည်နေလော့။ (ခ) ရပ်-မတ်တတ်ရပ်-လော့။ (ဂ) သည်းခံလော့။ တိဋ္ဌတိ-(၁)-ကြည့်။
(Auto-Translation): (a) Stand still. (b) Stop and think. (c) Be patient. Focus on the details.
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) Tittha (तित्थ) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Trittha.
2) Tittha (तित्थ) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Tryartha.
3) Tittha (तित्थ) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Tīrtha.
4) Tittha (तित्थ) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Tīrtha.
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.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Hi, A, Tara, Tha, Ta.
Starts with (+18): Tittha Jataka, Tittha Sutta, Titthabhimukha, Titthabhiseka, Titthacola, Titthacolaka, Titthagama, Titthagama Vihara, Titthagamanakala, Titthagu, Titthahamana, Titthahi, Titthaka, Titthakaka, Titthakara, Titthakila, Titthakusala, Titthamagga, Titthamana, Titthanava.
Full-text (+93): Upatthahi, Patitthahi, Atittha, Navatittha, Gaya Phaggu, Titthiya, Talanigama Tittha, Natitthabhaddantika, Kacchaka Tittha, Titthayatana, Nahanatittha, Tikonamalatittha, Patitittha, Tittha Jataka, Titthakara, Annatitthiya, Badaratittha, Akitti Tittha, Timbarutittha, Titthahi.
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