The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

K!)!rika see ka)!rika.
K!veyya
K!veyya (nt.) [grd. fr. k!vyate fr. kavi poet cp. Sk. k!vya] 1. poetry, the making of poems, poetry as
business. one of the forbidden occupations D i.11 (= DA i.95 kabba -- kara*a) -- 2. poetry, song, poem (of
suttanta) A i.72=iii.107. -- matta intoxicated with poetry, musing, dreaming S i.110, 196.
K!sa
K!sa1 [cp. Sk. k!$a] a kind of reed, Saccharum sponta- neum S iii.137.
K!sa
K!sa2 [cp. Sk. k!sa] cough; in list of diseases under !b!dh! A v.110=Nd2 3041.
K!s!ya
K!s!ya and K!s!va (adj.) [Sk. k!+!ya from the P!li; k!s!ya prob. fr. Sk. $y!ma or $y!va brown=P!li s!ma,
with k!=kad, a kind of, thus meaning a kind of brown, i. e. yellow. See further under s!ma and cp. k!la] 1.
K!s!ya as attr. of vatth!ni, the yellow robes of the Buddhist mendicant, in phrase k!s!y!ni v˚ acch!detv!
ag!rasm! anag!riya' pabbajitv!, describing the taking up of the "homeless state" D i.60, 61, 63, 115; M
ii.67; A i.107; ii.208; iv.118, 274, 280; Pug 57; Nd2 172. ˚vattha (adj.) with yellow robes Sn 64; cp.
!nivattha J iii.179 (dressed in yellow, of the executioner: see Fick, Soziale Gliederung p. 104 & cp. k!s!ya
-- niv!sana J iii.41; k!s!viya J iv.447); PvA 20; ˚v!sin dressed in yellow Sn 487. -- 2. K!s!va (vattha) the
yellow robe (never in above formula) Vin i.287; S iv.190=v.53=301; Dh 9, 10=Th 1, 969, 970=J ii.198
=v.50; Miln 11. ˚ka*&h! (pl.) the "yellow necks" those whose necks are dressed in yellow Dh 307 (= DhA
iii.480)=It 43; ˚pajjota glittering with yellow robes Vbh 247; Miln 19.
K!s!vaka
K!s!vaka [fr. k!s!va] a yellow robe DhA ii.86.
K!s!viya
K!s!viya [fr. k!s!va] one who is dressed in yellow, esp. of the royal executioner (cp. k!s!ya -- vattha) J
iv.447 (=cora -- gh!taka C.).
K!sika
K!sika (adj.) [cp. Sk. k!$ika & in a diff. sense a..ha -- k!sika] belonging to the K!s" country, or to
Benares; in ˚uttama (scil. vattha) an upper garment made of Benares cloth Pv i.108; J vi.49 (where to be
read k!sik' uttama for k!si -- kuttama). ˚vattha Benares muslin A i.248; iii.50; Pug 34; Miln 2; DhA i.417;
Vism 115.
K!su
K!su [cp. Sk. kar+(, fr. k%+] a hole; only in cpd. ang!ra- k!su a cinderhole, a fire -- pit, usually understood
as a pit of glowing cinders J i.232. Mostly found in similes, e. g. S iv.56, 188; Sn 396; Sdhp. 208; and in
k!m! ang!rak!s' ûpam! metaphor A iv.224=v.175; see also k!ma.
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