The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

in two forms, viz. ric as "virecane" (No. 396; cp. Dhtm 517 "khara*e," i. e. flowing; 610 "recane"), and riñc
as "riñcane" (No. 44)] to leave, abandon, leave behind, give up, neglect Vin i.190 (also fut. riñcissati); M
i.155 (riñcissati), 403; S iv.206; A iii.86 sq., 108 sq., 343 sq., 366 sq., 437; Th 1, 1052; Sn 156; Miln 419; J
v.403. -- ppr. med. with neg.: ariñcam!na Sn 69; ger. riñcitv! (for Sk. riktv!) Th 2, 93. -- pp. ritta. -- Pass.
riccati [Sk. ricyate] to be left: see ati˚.
Riñcana
Riñcana (nt.) [fr. riñc] leaving behind, giving up Dhtp 44.
Ritta
Ritta [pp. of riñcati; cp. atireka] devoid, empty, free, rid (of) M i.207 (+tuccha), 414; Vin i.157=ii.216; Sn
823 (emancipated: ritto muni=vivitta etc. Nd1 158), 844 (opp. to aritta); Th 2, 265 (see rindi); J i.29 (v.
222); iii.492; Miln 383. -- ass!da finding one's taste in empty things A i.280 (+b!hir -- ass!da. Kern, Toev.
s. v. reads ritt!sa and trsls "impure (of food)," not according to the sense at all). -- !sana an empty seat Sn
963 (expld at Nd1 481 as "opportunity for sitting down which is free from unbefitting sights"). -- pesu*a
free fr. slander Sn 941 (expld at Nd1 422: "yassa pesuñña' pah"na'" etc.). -- mu&&hi an empty fist (˚sadisa:
comparing someone as regards ignorance) SnA 306=DhA iv.38. -- hattha (adj.) empty -- handed J v.46;
Sdhp 309.
Rittaka
Rittaka (adj.) [ritta+ka] empty, void, without reality Th 1, 41; 2, 394 (= tucchaka anto -- s!ra -- rahita ThA
258); Pv iii.65 (of a river=tuccha PvA 202); PvA 139 (=suñña, virahita). Usually in combn with tucchaka
as a standing phrase denoting absolute emptiness & worthlessness, e. g. at D i.240; M i.329; S iii.141.
Rind"
Rind" at Th 2, 265 is doubtful. The T. reading is "te rind" va lambante 'nodaka," said of breasts hanging
down in old age. The C. compares them with leather water bottles without water (udaka -- bhast! viya). We
have to read either with Morris, J.P.T.S. 1884, 94 "ritt" va" (=ritt! iva), "as it were, empty," or (preferably)
with ThA 212 "ther" ti va" ("like an old woman"). The trsln (Sisters, p. 124) takes the C. expln of udaka --
bhast! as equivalent to T. reading rindi, in saying "shrunken as skins without water"; but rind" is altogether
doubtful & it is better to read ther" which is according to the context. We find the same meaning of ther"
("old woman") at Pv ii.116.
Rissati
Rissati [Vedic ri+, ri+yati] to be hurt, to suffer harm M i.85 (.!'sa -- makasa -- v!t' !tapa -- siri'sapa --
samphassehi rissam!no; where Nd2 199 in same passage reads samphassam!na).
Ruka
Ruka in cpd. a..ha˚ at Vin ii.134, referring to the shape of a beard, is doubtful. The v. l. is "duka." Could it
correspond to Vedic rukma (a certain ornament worn on the chest)?
Rukkha
Rukkha [Vedic v%k+a. See Geiger, P.Gr. § 13, with note. Pischel, Prk. Gr. § 320 puts rukkha to Sk. ruk+a
(shining which as Pischel, following Roth. says has also the meaning "tree" in ]gveda). The Prk. form is
rukkha. Cp. Wackernagel, Altind. Gr. 1, § 184 b. We find a byform rakkha at J iii.144. Cp. Brethren, pp.
185, 416, where the Bn MS. has rukkha kath! the meaning being rakkha˚] a tree. In the rukkha -- m(lik'