The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

suffix ter=Sk. tara, as in uttara) & Gr. decitero/s; cp. also Goth. taihswa (right hand), Ohg. zeso & zesawa.
See dakkha for further connections] 1. right (opp. v!ma left), with a tinge of the auspicious, lucky &
prominent: Vin ii.195 (hattha); PvA 112, 132 (id.); Ps i.125. hattha, p!da, etc. with ref. to a Tath!gata's
body); J i.50 (˚passa the right side); PvA 178 (id.), 112 (˚b!hu); Sn p. 106 (b!ha); PvA 179
(˚j!numa*.alena with the right knee: in veneration). -- 2. skilled, well-trained (=dakkha) J vi.512 (Com.
susikkhita). -- 3. (of that point of the compass which is characterized through "orientation" by facing the
rising sun, & then lies on one's right:) southern, usually in combn with dis! (direction): D iii.180 (one of the
6 points, see dis!), 188 sq. (id.); M i.487; ii.72; S i.145, etc. -- !vattaka (adj.) winding to the right D ii.18
(of the hairs of a Mah!purisa, the 14th of his characteristics or auspicious signs; cp. BSk. dak+i*!varta a
precious shell, i. e. a shell the spiral of which turns to the right Av- i.205; Divy 51, 67, 116); J v.380; --
janapada the southern country the "Dekkan" (=dakkhi*a') D i.96, 153 (expld by Bdhgh as "Gang!ya
dakkhi*ato p!ka&a -- janapado" DA i.265); -- samudda the southern sea J i.202.
Dakkhi*!
Dakkhi*! (f.) [Vedic dak+i*! to dak+ as in da$asyati to honour, to consecrate, but taken as f. of dakkhi*a &
by grammarians expl. as gift by the "giving" (i. e. the right) hand with popular analogy to d! to give
(dad!ti)] a gift, a fee, a donation; a donation given to a "holy" person with ref. to unhappy beings in the
Peta existence ("Manes"), intended to induce the alleviation of their sufferings; an intercessional, expiatory
offering, "don attributif" (Feer) (see Stede, Peta Vatthu, etc. p. 51 sq.; Feer Index to Av- p. 480) D
i.51=iii.66 (d. -- uddhaggik!), cp. A ii.68 (uddhagg! d.); A iii.43, 46, 178, 259; iv.64 sq., 394; M iii.254 sq.
(cuddasa p!&ipuggalik! d. given to 14 kinds of worthy recipients) Sn 482, 485; It 19; J i.228; Pv i.44 (=d!na
PvA 18), i.59 (pet!na' d ˚' dajj!), iv.151; Miln 257; Vism 220; PvA 29, 50, 70, 110 (p(jito dakkhi*!ya).
guru -- d. teacher's fee VvA 229, 230; dakkhi*a' !disati (otherwise uddisati) to designate a gift to a
particular person (with dat.) Vin i.229=D ii.88. -- âraha a worthy recipient of a dedicatory gift Pv ii.86; --
odaka water to wash in (orig. water of dedication, consecrated water) J i.118; iv.370; DhA i.112; PvA 23; --
visuddhi. purity of a gift M iii.256 sq.=A ii.80 sq.=D iii.231, cp. Kvu 556 sq.
Dakkhi*eyya
Dakkhi*eyya (adj. -- n.) [grd. -- formation fr. dakkhi*! as from a verb *dak+i*!ti=p(jeti] one worthy of a
dakki*!. The term is expl. at KhA 183, & also (with ref. to brahmanic usage) at Nd2 291; -- S i.142, 168,
220; M i.37, 236 sq.; 446; A i.63, 150; ii.44; iii.134, 162, 248; iv.13 sq.; D iii.5; It 19 (annañ ca datv!
bahuno dakkhi*eyyesu dakkhi*a' . . . sagga' gacchanti d!yak!); Sn 227, 448 sq., 504, 529; Nd2 291 (as
one of the 3 constituents of a successful sacrifice, viz. yañña the gift, phala the fruit of the gift, d. the
recipient of the gift). Cp. i.105 (where also adj. to be given, of d!na). Pv iv.133; VvA 120, 155 (Ep. of the
Sangha= ujubh(ta); PvA 25, 125, 128, 262. -- aggi the (holy) fire of a good receiver of gifts; a metaphor
taken from the brahmanic rite of sacrifice, as one of the 7 fires (=duties) to be kept up (or discarded) by a
follower of the Buddha A iv.41, 45; D iii.217; -- khetta the fruitful soil of a worthy recipient of a gift PvA
92; -- puggala an individual deserving a donation J i.228; there are 7 kinds enumd at D iii.253; 8 kinds at D
iii.255; -- sampatti the blessing of finding a worthy object for a dakkhi*! PvA 27, 137 sq.
Dakkhi*eyyat!
Dakkhi*eyyat! (f.) [abstr. fr. prec.] the fact of being a dakkhi*eyya Miln 240 (a˚).
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Dakkhita
Dakkhita [Vedic d"k+ita pp. of d"k+, Intens to da$ayati: see dakkha1] consecrated, dedicated J v.138. Cp.
dikkhita.