Mokkhacika, Mokkhacikā: 3 definitions
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: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English DictionaryMokkhacika, (m. or °ā f.) (see on attempt at etym. Morris in J. P. T. S. 1885, 49 who takes mokkha as fr. muc “tumbling� & cika=“turning� fr. cak=cik. The word remains obscure, it must be a dialectical expression, distorted by popular analogy & taken perhaps from a designation of a place where these feats or toys had their origin. More probable than Morris’etym. is an analysis of the word (if it is Aryan) as mokkha= mokkha2, in meaning “head, top, � so that it may mean “head over, � top-first� & we have to separate *mokkhac-ika the °ika representing °iya “in the manner of, like� & —a being the adv. of direction as contained in Sk. prāñc=pra-ñ. ) tumbling, turning somersaults, an acrobatic feat; in list of forbidden amusements at D. I, 6 (cp. DA. I, 86; samparivattaka-kīḷana�, i.e. playing with something that rolls along, continuously turning? The foll. sentence however seems to imply turning head over heels: “ākāse vā daṇḍa� gahetvā bhūmiya� vā sīsa� ṭhapetvā heṭṭh-upariya (so read!) —bhāvena parivattana-kīḷanaṃ�; i.e. trapeze-performing. Cp. Dial. I. 10 & Vin. Texts II. 184). The list re-occurs at Vin. II, 10 (°āya: f. ! kīḷanti); III, 180; M. I, 266≈and A. V, 203 (with important v. l. mokkhaṭika, which would imply mokkha & ending tiya, and not °첹 at all. The Cy. on this passage explains as: daṇḍaka� gahetvā heṭṭh-uppariya (sic. as DA. I, 86; correct to upariya?) —bhāvena parivattana-kīḷana�). The word is found also at Vin. I, 275, where the boy of a Seṭṭhi in Bārāṇasī contracts injuries to his intestines by “mokkhacikāya kīḷanto, � playing (with a) m.—According to its use with īḷaپ & in Instr. mokkhacikena (Nd2 219) may be either a sort of game or an instrument (toy), with which children play. (Page 541)
: Sutta: Pali Word Grammar from Pali Myanmar Dictionarymokkhacikā (မောက္ခစိက�) [(thī) (ထ�)]�
[mokkha+ci+ṇvu+ā．hatthapādāna� mokkhena mocanena cayati parivattati etāyāti mokkhacikā．sī,ṭ�,,1�362．]
[မောက္�+စ�+ဏွ�+အာ။ ဟတ္ထပါဒါန� မောက္ခေ� မောစနေ� စယတ� ပရိဝတ္တတ� ဧတာယာတ� မောက္ခစိကာ။ သီ၊ဋီ၊သစ်၊၁။၃၆၂။]
[Pali to Burmese]
: Sutta: Tipiṭaka Pāḷi-Myanmar Dictionary (တိပိဋက-ပါဠိမြန်မ� အဘိဓာန�)ǰ�
(Burmese text): ရှေ့နောက်ပြန်လှန်၍ ကစားခြင်း၊ ထက်အောက်ပြန်လျှိုးကျွမ်းထိုးကစားခြင်း။ တန်းကစားခြင်း။ ကျွမ်းထိုးကစားခြင်း။
(Auto-Translation): Playing backward, playing under the top, playing in formation, playing skillfully.
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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