The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

Vakka
Vakka2 (nt.) [Vedic v%kka] the kidney Sn 195; Kh iii.; Miln 26; DhsA 140. In detail described as one of the
32 !k!ras at Vism 255, 356; VbhA 60, 239, 356. -- pañcaka the series of five (constituents of the body)
beginning with the kidney. These are vakka, hadaya, yakana, kilomaka, pihaka: VbhA 249.
Vakkanga
Vakkanga [vakka'+ga] a term for bird, poetically for saku*a J i.216 (tesa' ubhosu passesu pakkh! vank!
j!t! ti vakkang! C.).
Vakkhati
Vakkhati is fut. of vac: he will say, e. g. at Vin ii.190; iv.238. See vatti.
Vakkala
Vakkala [cp. BSk. valkala (e. g. Jtm 210): see v!ka] 1. the bark of a tree J ii.13 (˚antara); iii.522. -- 2. a
bark garment (worn by ascetics): see vakkali.
Vakkalaka
Vakkalaka ("bark -- like," or "tuft"?) is at KhA 50 as the Vism reading, where KhA reads da*.a. The P.T.S.
ed. of Vism (p. 255) reads wrongly cakkalaka.
Vakkali
Vakkali [in compn for in] wearing a garment of bark, an ascetic, lit. "barker" J ii.274 (˚sadda the sound of
the bark -- garment -- wearer). See also Np. Vakkali.
Vakkalika
Vakkalika (adj.) ( -- ˚) [fr. vakkala] in danta˚ peeling bark with one's teeth, designation of a cert. kind of
ascetics DA i.271.
Vagga
Vagga1 [Vedic varga, fr. v%j; cp. Lat. volgus & vulgus (=E. vulgar) crowd, people] 1. a company, section,
group, party Vin i.58 (du˚, ti˚), 195 (dasa˚ a chapter of 10 bhikkhus). -- 2. a section or chapter of a
canonical book DhA i.158 (eka -- vagga -- dvi -- vagga -- mattam pi); DhsA 27. -- uposatha celebration (of
the uposatha) in groups, "incomplete congregation" (trsln Oldenberg) Dpvs 7, 36. More likely to vagga2! --
gata following a (sectarian) party (Bdhgh identifies this with the 62 di&&higatik! SnA 365) S i.187; Sn 371. -
- bandha, in instr. ˚ena group by group Mhvs 32, 11. -- bandhana banded together, forming groups DhA
iv.93, 94. -- vagga in crowds, confused, heaped up J vi.224; PvA 54. -- v!daka taking somebody's part Vin
iii.175. -- s!rin conforming to a (heretic) party Sn 371, 800, 912; Nd1 108, 329.
Vagga
Vagga2 (adj. -- nt.) [vi+agga, Sk. vyagra; opposed to samagga] dissociated, separated; incomplete; at
difference, dissentious Vin i.111 sq., 129, 160; iv.53 (sangha); A i.70 (paris!); ii.240. -- instr. vaggena
separately, secessionally, sectariously Vin i.161; iv.37, 126. -- !r!ma fond of dissociation or causing
separation M i.286; It 11 (+adhamma -- &&ha; trsln Seidenstücker not quite to the point: rejoicing in parties,