Takka, Ṭākkā: 15 definitions
Introduction:
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)
: Shodhganga: The Kavyamimamsa of RajasekharaTakka (तक्क) is the name a locality mentioned in Ჹś’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 (काव्�, 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)
: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper NamesA 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
: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionarytakka : (m.) thought; reasoning; logic. (nt.), butter-milk.
: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary1) 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 (=itihītiha� 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 (°� pahāya na upeti saṅkha�) 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.
: Sutta: Pali Word Grammar from Pali Myanmar Dictionary1) takka (တက္က) [(pu) (ပ�)]�
[taka+ka．takkamhīti ettha takkoti eko ayomayo suttakantanassa upakaraṇaviseso．so hitakīyati sutta� bandhīyati etthaç etenāti vā takkoti vuccati．pā,yo,1�123．kati+ta．kati suttajanane．nīti,dhā�67．takka(2) vipallāsapru．]
[တက+က� တက္ကမှီတ� ဧတ္� တက္ကောတ� ဧကေ� အယောမယေ� သုတ္တကန္တန� ဥပကရဏဝိသေသော။ သေ� ဟိတကီယတ� သုတ္တ� ဗန္ဓီယတ� ဧတ္�,ဧတေနာတ� ဝ� တက္ကောတ� ဝုစ္စတိ။ ပါစိတ်၊ ယော၊ ၁။ ၁၂၃။ ကတ�+တ။ ကတ� သုတ္တဇနနေ။ နီတိ၊ ဓာ။ ၆၇� တက္က(�) ကဲ့သို� ဝိပလ္လာသပြု။]
2) takka (တက္က) [(pu,na) (ပု၊�)]�
[kamu (icchākantīsu)+ta．ādiantakkharavipallāsavasena saddasiddhi,yathā ]]kantanaṭṭhena takka]]nti．nīti,dhā�216�(-355)．saddatthato pana yathā kantanatthena ādiantavipallāsato takka� vuccati．thera,ṭṭha,1�6．ti+ka．takka� tu mathitaṃpyatha．tīṇi kāni jalabhāgāni ettha santīti takka�,issattaṃ� dvittañca．．．．takka� tibhāgasaṃyuttaṃ．�,ṭī．5vava．amara�19,53．catuthīvaṃgajalavasaṃyukte dadhini,gorasaje,daṇḍāhate,kālaseye．cintāmaṇi�(takra-sa�)]
[ကမ� (ဣစ္ဆာကန္တီသ�)+တ။ အာဒိအန္တက္ခရဝိပလ္လာသဝသေ� သဒ္ဒသိဒ္ဓိ၊ ယထ� ＂ကန္တနဋ္ဌေ� တက္က＂န္တိ။ နီတိ၊ ဓာ။ ၂၁၆။ (-၃၅�)� သဒ္ဒတ္ထတေ� ပ� ယထ� ကန္တနတ္ထေ� အာဒိအန္တဝိပလ္လာသတေ� တက္က� ဝုစ္စတိ။ ထေရ၊ ဋ္ဌ၊ ၁။ ၆။ တ�+က� တက္က� တ� မထိတံပျထ။ တီဏ� ကာန� ဇလဘာဂါန� ဧတ္� သန္တီတ� တက္ကံ၊ ဣဿတ္တ�,ဒွိတ္တဉ္စ။．．．တက္က� တိဘာဂသံယုတ္တံ။ ဓာန်။ ဓာန်၊ ဋီ။ ၅ဝဝ။ အမရ။ ၁၉� ၅၃� စတုထီဝံဂဇလဝသံယုက္တ� ဒဓိနိ၊ ဂေါရသဇေ၊ ဒဏ္ဍာဟတေ၊ ကာလသေယေ။ စိန္တာမဏိ။ (တက�-သ�)]
3) takka (တက္က) [(pu,na) (ပု၊�)]�
ڳٲ첹+�(,ṭī．155īپ,�281-)�(ٲī-�)
[တက္က+အ။ (ဓာန်၊ဋီ။၁၅၅။ နီတိ၊ ဓာ။ ၂၈�-ကြည့�)� (တက�-သ�)]
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
: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionaryṭakkā (टक्क�).�& ṭaŧṭōṇŧ See ṭa & ṭaŧṭōṇŧ.
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
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Ṭa첹 (टक्क):�m. a niggard (?), [Kathāsaritsāgara lxv] (cf. ṭāk, ṻ첹)
2) m. [plural] a Bāhīka people, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.] (kva).
: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)Ṭa첹 (टक्क) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Ṭa첹.
[Sanskrit to German]
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम� (ṃsṛt), 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
: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary1) Ṭa첹 (टक्क) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Ṭa첹.
2) Ṭa첹 (टक्क) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Ṭa첹.
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 (तक्क�) 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
: Alar: Kannada-English corpusṬa첹 (ಟಕ್ಕ):—[adjective] of the nature of cheating; tending to deceive (another or others).
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Ṭa첹 (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
: DDSA: University of Madras: Tamil LexiconṬākkā (டாக்கா) noun < Hindustain 岵. Basting; மேலோட்டுத் தையல�. [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
: unoes: Nepali-English DictionaryṬa첹 (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 (+19): Takka Jataka, Takkaali, Takkabikki, Takkadeshiya, Takkadi, Takkadiga, Takkadugudure, Takkagahana, Takkagama, Takkahetu, Takkai-p-puntu, Takkaippuntu, Takkaipputu, Takkaisu, Takkala Jataka, Takkalana, Takkali, Takkalisu, Takkalu, Takkamattige.
Full-text (+103): Takkadesa, Takkadeshiya, Takki, Takkola, Vitakka, Takketi, Vitakkesi, Vitakkita, Takketva, Vitakkana, Vitakketi, Takka-pikkaenal, Takkavacara, Dhammatakka, Takkasila, Vitakketva, Takkaya, Vitakketabba, Vitakkayanta, Takkayama.
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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]
Maha Buddhavamsa—The Great Chronicle of Buddhas (by Ven. Mingun Sayadaw)
Sakka’s Question (4): On how Craving arise due to Firm Opinion < [Chapter 39 - How the Āṭānāṭiya Paritta came to be Taught]
Harijans of Mehesana < [July 1960]
Taxila < [May 1939]
Turning the Wheel of Law < [July � September 1974]
The Sun-Worshipping Sakadvipiya Brahmanas (by Martina Palladino)
Kathasaritsagara (the Ocean of Story) (by Somadeva)
Chapter LXV < [Book X - Śaktiyaśas]
Tirumantiram by Tirumular (English translation)
Verse 2038: Control Senses By Jnana Yoga < [Tantra Seven (elam tantiram) (verses 1704-2121)]
Verse 2096: They Seek Not Light < [Tantra Seven (elam tantiram) (verses 1704-2121)]
Verse 615: Immortality Through Dhyana Yoga < [Tantra Three (munran tantiram) (verses 549-883)]