The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

Kapalla
Kapalla at Vin i.203, is an error for kajjala, lamp -- black, used in preparation of a collyrium (cp. J.P.T.S.
1887, 167).
Kapalla
Kapalla (nt.) [Sk kap!la; orig. skull, bowl, cp. kapola & Lat. caput, capula, capillus, Goth. haubi, E. head] 1. a bowl in form of a skull, or the shell of reptiles; see kap!la. -- 2. an earthenware pan used to carry
ashes J i.8; vi.66, 75; DhA i.288. -- 3. a frying pan (see cpds. & cp. ang!ra -- kapalla) Sn 672. -- kapalla is
only a variant of kap!la. -- p!ti an earthen pot, a pan J i.347=DhA i.371; -- p(va a pancake J i.345; DhA
i.367; VvA 123; Mhvs 35, 67.
Kapallaka
Kapallaka -- 1. a small earthen bowl J vi.59; DhA i.224. -- 2. a frying pan J i.346.
Kap!la
Kap!la (nt.) [Sk. kap!la, see kapalla] -- 1. a tortoise- or turtle -- shell S i.7=Miln 371; S iv.179; as ornament
at DA i.89. -- 2. the skull, cp. ka&!ha in s"saka&!ha. 3. a frying pan (usually as ayo˚, of iron, e. g. A
iv.70; Nd2 304iii; VvA 335) J ii.352; Vv 845; DhA i.148 (v. l. ˚kapalla); Bdhd 100 (in simile). -- 4. a
begging bowl, used by certain ascetics S iv.190; v.53, 301; A i.36; iii.225; J i.89; PvA 3. -- 5. a potsherd J
ii.301. -- !bhata the food collected in a bowl A i.36; -- kha*.a a bit of potsherd J ii.301; -- hattha "with a
bowl in his hand," begging, or a beggar, Th 1, 1118; J i.89; iii.32; v.468; PvA 3.
Kap!laka
Kap!laka -- 1. a small vessel, bowl J i.425. -- 2. a beggar's bowl J i.235; DhA ii.26.
Kap!sa
Kap!sa=kapp!sa, q. v. D!vs ii.39.
Kapi
Kapi [Sk. kapi, original designation of a brownish colour, cp. kapila & kapota] a monkey (freq. in similes)
Sn 791; Th 1, 1080; J i.170; iii.148, cp. kavi. -- kacchu the plant Mucuna pruritus Pv ii.310; ˚phala its fruit
PvA 86; -- citta "having a monkey's mind," capricious, fickle J iii.148=525; -- naccan! Npl., Pv iv.137; --
nidd! "monkey -- sleep," dozing Miln 300.
Kapiñjala
Kapiñjala [Derivation unknown. Sk. kapiñjala] a wild bird, possibly the francolin partridge Kvu 268; J
vi.538 (B.B. kapiñjara).
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Kapi&hana
Kapi&hana the tree Thespesia populneoides Vin iv. 35.