The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

Bilanga
Bilanga [etym. doubtful; one compares both Sk. vi.anga the plant Embelia ribes, and vilanga the plant
Erycibe paniculata] sour gruel J vi.365 (=kañjiya); usually in stock phrase ka*!jaka bilanga -- dutiya (seed -
- cake?) accompanied by sour gruel Vin ii.77, 78; S i.90; A i.145; iv.392; J i.228; iii.299; SnA 94; DhA
iii.10 (v. l. pilanka -- ˚aka'); iv.77; VvA 222, 298 (bilanka˚). -- th!lika a certain torture, called "gruel --
pot" (should there be any relation to bila -- kata under bila2?) A i.47; ii.122; Nd2 604 (v. l. khil˚); Miln 197,
290, 358 (all passages in standard setting).
Bilangika
Bilangika (adj.) living on sour gruel; N. of a class of br!hma*as at R!jagaha S i.164.
Billa
Billa [cp. Ved. bilva] fruit of the Bilva tree, Aegle mar- melos or Bengal quince, only in one stock phrase
where its size is compared with sizes of smaller fruits, and where it is preceded by !malaka S i.150=A
iv.170
-- 488 --
(vv. ll. villa, bila, be)u, bil!la)=Sn p. 125 (vv. ll. pill! bill!, billa; T. reading after SS billi). Cp. derivations
bella & beluva.
Bi)!ra
Bi)!ra [etym. uncertain, prob. a loan -- word; cp. late Sk. bi.!la & see also P. bi)!la. The Prk. forms are
bir!la & vir!la, f. bir!l"] a cat D ii.83; M i.128, 334; S ii.270; A iii.122 (vi)!ra); v.202, 289; Th 1, 1138; J
i.461 (as representing deceit), 480; v.406, 416, 418; Miln 118; DhA ii.152; PugA 225. On bi)!ra in similes
cp. J.P.T.S. 1907, 116. -- nissakkana ( -- matta) (large enough) for a cat to creep through A v.195. -- bhast!
(a bag of) catskin M i.128 (expld by Bdhgh as "bi)!ra -- camma -- pasibbako"); Th 1, 1138. At both
passages in similes.
Bi)!rik!
Bi)!rik! (f.) [cp. Sk. bi.!lik!] a she -- cat J iii.265.
Bi)!la
Bi)!la1 [see bi)!ra] a cat J i.110; ii.244; vi.593. pakkha a flying fox J vi.538.
Bi)!la
Bi)!la2 [see bila3] a kind of salt Abhp 461.
Bi)!l"
Bi)!l" (f.) [f. of bi)!la=bi)!ra, cp. Sk. bi.!l", also N. of a plant, see on Prk. chira -- bir!l"=Sk. k+"ra -- bi.!l"
Pischel Gr. § 241] a bulbous plant, a tuber J iv.46 (=˚vall"kanda, cp. gloss lat!tanta on kalamba), 371
(=˚kanda Com. p. 373); vi.578. Cp. takka)a.
Bi)ibi)ik!