Caccara: 7 definitions
Introduction:
Caccara means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Buddhism, Pali, Jainism, Prakrit. 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.
Alternative spellings of this word include Charachara.
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionarycaccara : (nt.) a courtyard; a cross road.
: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English DictionaryCaccara, (nt.) (Sk. catvara, cp. Trenckner, Notes, p. 56) a quadrangular place, a square, courtyard; a place where four roads meet, a cross road Vin. III, 151; IV, 271; Miln. 1 (+catukkasiṅghāṭaka), 330 (do.); J. I, 425 (°raccha). (Page 260)
: Sutta: Pali Word Grammar from Pali Myanmar Dictionarycaccara (စစ္စ�) [(na) (�)]�
[cara+cara．ra- ca-pru．caranti etthāti caccara�,vīthi catukka� aṅgaṇañca．ṇvādi�152．cara gatibhakkhaṇesu,caro,rassaco,caccara�,aṅgaṇavācako cāyaṃ．,ṭī．2va3．cacca+ara．cacco bhūcugatyakkosa,kathane cañcu yāyane．dhātvatthasaṅgaha�112�(catvara-sa�)]
[စ�+စရ။ �-ကိ� �-ပြု။ စရန္တ� ဧတ္ထာတ� စစ္စရံ၊ ဝီထ� စတုက္က� အင်္ဂဏဉ္စ။ ဏွာဒိ။ ၁၅၂။ စ� ဂတိဘက္ခဏေသု၊ စရော၊ ရဿစော၊ စစ္စရံ၊ အင်္ဂဏဝါစကေ� စာယံ။ ဓာန်၊ ဋီ။ ၂ဝ၃� စစ္�+အရ။ စစ္စေ� ဘူစုဂတျက္ကောသ၊ ကထန� စဉ္စ� ယာယနေ။ ဓာတွတ္ထသင်္ဂဟ။ ၁၁၂။ (စတွ�-သ�)]
[Pali to Burmese]
: Sutta: Tipiṭaka Pāḷi-Myanmar Dictionary (တိပိဋက-ပါဠိမြန်မ� အဘိဓာန�)�
(Burmese text): (�) ခရီးလမ်� �,�,�-ခုတို့၏ အဆုံ၊ ခရီးလမ်းဆုံ။ (�) လမ်းကြား၊ လမ်းငယ်၊ လမ်းသွယ်။ (�) အိမ်အပြင်၊ ကြမ်းပြင်၊ ကွင်းပြင်၊ တလင်းပြင်။
(Auto-Translation): (1) Junctions of routes 2, 3, and 4, intersections. (2) Alley, small road, path. (3) Outside the house, surface, field, plain.
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.
Sanskrit dictionary
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryCaccara (चच्च�).�(m. or nt.; = Pali id., Sanskrit catvara), square, four-crossroads: so it seems that the mss. must read, or intend, at ṇḍī첹 88.1 (verse), where KN sthitu catvarasmin (kept by WT without note), but with note over the final letter: ‘O. care the others caresmin�. This very imperfect annotation seems to mean that the Nepalese mss. have cac- caresmin (*cacaresmin or *caresmin would be unparallelled, morphologically and semantically incomprehensible, and metrically impossible); caccare, seemingly the reading of ‘O� = Kashgar recension, would be metrically defective, lacking the necessary last syllable.
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) Caccara (चच्च�) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Catvara.
2) Caccāra (चच्चार) also relates to the Sanskrit word: .
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 corpusCaccara (ಚಚ್ಚ�):�
1) [noun] the quality of being quick, swift, prompt, etc.; quickness; swiftness.
2) [noun] the quality of being thoughtful, cautious; carefulness; meticulousness.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Cara.
Starts with: Caccarai, Caccaram, Caccaramdale, Caccaranissita, Caccararacchaditthana, Caccaravu.
Full-text: Caccaram, Caccararacchaditthana, Caccaranissita, Caccarike, Yanaiccaccaram, Catvara, Upalabh, Cara Sutta.
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