Gahapati, Gaha-pati, Gahappati: 4 definitions
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: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionarygahapati : (m.) master of a house.
: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English DictionaryGahapati, (gaha+pati. Vedic gṛhapati, where pati is still felt in its original meaning of “lord, � “master, � implying dignity, power & auspiciousness. Cp. Sk. dampati=dominus=despόths; and pati in P. senāpati commander-in-chief, Sk. jāspati householder, Lat. hospes, Obulg. gospoda=potestas, Goth. brūp-faps, bride-groom, hunda-faps=senāpati. See details under pati.) the possessor of a house, the head of the household, pater familias (frequent+seṭṭhi).�1. In formulas: (a) as regards social standing, wealth & clanship: a man of private (i.e. not official) life, classed w. khattiyā & brāhmaṇ� in kh°-mahāsālā, wealthy Nobles, brahm°mahāsālā, do. Brahmins, gah° —m° well-to-do gentry S.I, 71; Nd2 135; DhA.I, 388.—kh°-kula, br°-kula, g°-kula the kh°, etc. clans: Vin.II, 161; J.I, 218. kh°, amaccā, br°, g.° D.I, 136.�(b) as regards education & mode of life ranking with kh°, br°, g.° and samaṇ� Vin.I, 227; A.I, 66; Nd2 235, see also cpd.—paṇḍita.�-� 2. Other applications: frequent in combination brāhmaṇagahapatikā priests & yeomen: see gahapatika. In combination w. gahapatiputta (cp. kulaputta) it comprises the members of the g. rank, clansmen of the (middle) class, and implies a tinge of “respectable people� esp. in addresses. So used by the Buddha in enumerating the people as gahapati vā gah°-putto vā aññatarasmi� vā kule paccājāto D.I, 62; M.I, 344. gahapatī ca gahapatāniyo householders and their wives A.II, 57. In sg. the Voc. gahapati may be rendered by “Sir� (Miln.17 e.g. and frequent), & in pl. gahapatayo by “Sirs� (e.g. Vin.I, 227; M.I, 401; A.II, 57).—As regards occupation all resp. businesses are within the sphere of the g., most frequently mentioned as such are seṭṭhino (see below) & cp. seṭṭhi° Vin.I, 16, but also kassaka, farmer A.I, 229, 239 sq.; and dārukammika, carpenter A.III, 391. Var. duties of a g. enum. at A.I, 229, 239.—The wealth & comfortably-living position of a g. is evident from an expression like kalyāṇa-bhattiko g. a man accustomed to good food Vin.II, 77=III, 160.—f. 貹ī Vin.III, 211, 213 sq., 259 (always w. gahapati); DhA.I, 376; pl. gahapatāniyo see above.—Note. The Gen. sg. of gahapati is °ino (J.I, 92) as well as —issa (Vin.I, 16; D.III, 36).�3. Single cases of gahapatis, where g. almost assumes the function of a title are Anāthapiṇḍika g. Vin.II, 158 sq.; S.I, 56; II, 68; A.II, 65; J.I, 92; PvA.16; Meṇḍaka g. Vin.I, 240 sq.; Citta S.IV, 281 sq.; Nakulapitā S.II, 1 sq.; Potaliya M.I, 359; Sandhāna D.III, 36 sq.; Hāliddikāni S.II, 9.—See next.
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Gahapati refers to: see sep. (Page 247)
Note: gahapati is a Pali compound consisting of the words gaha and pati.
[Pali to Burmese]
: Sutta: Tipiṭaka Pāḷi-Myanmar Dictionary (တိပိဋက-ပါဠိမြန်မ� အဘိဓာန�)1) gahapati�
(Burmese text): (�) အိမ်ရှင်၊ တရာ၊ အိမ်ရာတည်ထောင� လူ့ဘောင်၌ နေသူ၊ သူကြွယ်။ (�) အရှင်သခင်၊ လင်ယောက်ကျား။ ဂဟပတဂ္ဂ�-ကြည့်။ (�) နေ။ �
(Auto-Translation): (1) House owner, landlord, someone who resides in a household, a person of wealth. (2) Master, husband. See household details. (3) Exist.
2) gahapati�
(Burmese text): လ�-တက�-တို� လှူသောကျောင်း၊ ဂဟပတိကုဋိ။ ကပ္ပိယကုဋ�-လည်းကြည့်။
(Auto-Translation): The school that people contribute to, the Gahapatipakuti. Also take a look at the Kapiniya Kuti.
3) gahappati�
(Burmese text): (�) အိမ်ရှင်၊ တရာ၊ အိမ်ရာတည်ထောင� လူ့ဘောင်၌ နေသူ၊ သူကြွယ်။ (�) အရှင်သခင်၊ လင်ယောက်ကျား။ ဂဟပတဂ္ဂ�-ကြည့်။ (�) နေ။ �
(Auto-Translation): (1) A house owner, a resident, and a person living in a community; a wealthy person. (2) A master or lord, a male. Refer to the household structure. (3) To live.
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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