Vikalabhojana, Vikala-bhojana, Vikālabhojana: 6 definitions

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[«previous next»] — Vikalabhojana in Pali glossary

vikālabhojana : (nt.) taking food in the afternoon and night.

Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionary

Vikālabhojana refers to: taking a meal at the wrong time, i, e. in the afternoon Vin. I, 83; D. I, 5; A. I, 212; II, 209; Sn. 400; DA. I, 77. (Page 612)

Note: vikālabhojana is a Pali compound consisting of the words vikāla and bhojana.

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

vikālabhojana (ဝိကာလဘောဇန) [(na) (န)]—
[vikāla+bhojana+ajjhoharaṇa.ajjhoharaṇa-kye.vikāla+bhojana.vimati,2.115.]
[ဝိကာလ+ဘောဇန+အဇ္ဈောဟရဏ။ အဇ္ဈောဟရဏ-ပုဒ်ကျေ။ ဝိကာလ+ဘောဇန။ ဝိမတိ၊၂။၁၁၅။]

Source: Sutta: Pali Word Grammar from Pali Myanmar Dictionary

[Pali to Burmese]

vikālabhojana—

(Burmese text): (၁) နေလွဲသောအခါ၌ ဘောဇဉ်ကို-ဘုဉ်းပေး-သုံးဆောင်-စားသောက်-မျို-ခြင်း။ (၂) နေလွဲသောအခါ၌-ဘုဉ်းပေး-သုံးဆောင်-စားသောက်-ခြင်း။

(Auto-Translation): (1) When the sun sets, offering food to the spirits - preparing food - consuming - eating - is necessary. (2) When the sun sets - offering food to the spirits - consuming - is necessary.

Source: Sutta: Tipiṭaka Pāḷi-Myanmar Dictionary (တိပိဋက-ပါဠိမြန်မာ အဘိဓာန်)

Vikālabhojana (in Pali) can be associated with the following Chinese terms:

1) 非時食 [fēi shí shí]: “eating at the inappropriate time”.

Note: vikālabhojana can be alternatively written as: vikāla-bhojana.

Source: DILA Glossaries: Pali-Chinese-English (dictionary of Buddhism)
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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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