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Kadamba 13 Kanta
smallness, e. g. kakanika, k§purisa, see also kanUia &
kappata), kig°, ku.° For relation of ku > ka cp. kutra >
kattha & kada.
-anna bad food Kacc 178. -asana id. Kacc 178.
-dukkha (?) great evil (= death) VvA 316 (expl'' as
maraija, cp. katuka).
Kadamba (cp. Sk. kadamba] the kadamba tree, Naudea
cordifolia (with orange-coloured, fragrant blossoms)
J- VI. 535, 539; Vism 206; DhA 1.309 ("puppha);
Bilhvs 25, 48 (id).
Kadara (adj.) miserable ] 11. 136 (cxpl'' as liikha, kasira).
Kadariya (adj.) [cp. Sk. kadarya, kad + arya ?] mean,
miserly, stingy, selfish ;
DhA
usually expl"' by thaddhamacchari
(PvA 102 ;
JI1.189, 313), and mentioned
with maccharl, freq. also with paribhasaka S 1.34, 96
A U.59 ; IV. 79 sq. ; Dh 177, 223; J
v.273 ; Sn 663;
Vv 29*. As cause of Peta birth freq. in Pv., e. g.
1.9'; II. 7'; rv.i**; PvA 25, 99, 236. — (nt.) avarice,
stinginess, selfishness, grouped under macchariya
Dhs 1 122 ; Sn 362 (with kodha).
Xadariyatt (f.) [abstr. fr. last] stinginess, niggardliness
D 11.243 ; Miln 180 ; PvA 45.
Kadala (nt.) the plantain tree Kacc 335.
KadalP (f-) [Sk. kadadi] — i. the plantain, Musa sapientium.
Owing to the softness and unsubstantiality of
its trunk it is used as a frequent symbol of unsubstantiality,
transitoriness and worthlessness. As the
plantain or banana plant always dies down after producing
fruit, is destroyed as it were by its own fruit, it
is used as a simile for a bad man destroyed by the fruit
of his own deeds: S i.i54 = Vin ii.i88=S ii.24i=A 11.73
= DhA III. 1 56 ; cp. Miln 166 ; — as an image of unsub-
stantiality, Cp. III. 2*. The tree is used as ornament on
great festivals: J i.ii ; vi.590 (in simile), 592 : VvA 31.
— 2. a flag, banner, i. e. plantain leaves having the
appearance of
cpds. kadali°.
banners (-dhaja) J v. 195; vi.412. In
-khandha the trunk of the plantain tree, often in
similes as symbol of worthlessness. e. g. M 1.233 =
S Iii.i4i = rv.i67 ; Vism 479; Nd* 680 A".; J vi.442 ;
as symbol of smoothness and beauty of limbs VvA 280 ;
-taru the plantain tree Davs v. 49 ; •torana a triumphal
arch made of pi. steins and leaves Mhbv 169 ; -patta a
pi. leaf used as an improvised plate to eat from J v. 4
DhA 1.59 ; -phala the fruit of the plantain J v.37.
Kadall* (f.) a kind of deer, an antelope only in °miga
J V.405, 416; VI. 539; DA 1.87; and "pavara-paccattfaarana
(nt.) the hide of the k. deer, used as a rug or
cover D l.7!=A l.i8i = Vin 1.192 = 11.163, 169; sim.
D. II. 187; (adj.) (of pallanka) A i.i37=iii.5o=iv.394.
Kadi (indecl.) [Vedic kada. Cp. tada, sada in Pali, and
perhaps Latin quando]. interr. adv. when ? (very often
foil, by fut.) Th i, iogi-1106; J 11. 212 ; vi. 46 ; DhA
1.33 ; PvA 2. — Comb*" with -ssu J v. 103, 215 ; vi.49 sq.
-ci [cid] indef. — i. at some time A iv.ioi. — 2. sometimes
J 1.98; PvA 271. — 3. once upon a time Davs
1.30. — 4. perhaps, may be J 1.297; VI. 364. + eva;
kadScideva VvA 213; -kadaci kadaci from time to
time, every now and then J 1. 216; Iv. 120 ; DhsA 238 ;
PvA 253. -kadaci karahaci at some time or other, at
times A 1.179 ; Miln 73 ; DhA III. 362. -na kadaci at no
time, never S 1.66 ; J v. 434 ; vi.363 ; same with ma k°
J VI. 310; Mhvs 25, 113; cp. kudicana. —kadSc-
-uppattika (adj.) happening only sometimes, occasional
Miln 114.
IT/erivation unknown. Sk. kardama] mud,
mire, filth Nd* 374 (=panka); J 1. 100; 111.220 (written
kadamo in verse and kaddemo in gloss) ; vi.240, 390
PvA 189 ( = panka), 215; compared with moral im-
purities J 111.290 & Miln 35.
a" free from mud or dirt,
clean Vin 11.201, of a lake J ill. 289 ; fig. pure of character
J 111.290. kaddamlkata made muddy or dirty, defiled
J VI. 59 (kilesehi).
-odaka muddy water Vin 11:262 ; Vism 127. -parikha
a moat filled with mud, as a defence J vi. 390 ; -babula
(adj.) muddy, full of mud DhA 1.333 ;
Kanaka (nt.) [cp. Sk. kanaka ; Gr. Kvqror yellow ; Ags.
hunig=£. honey. See also kailcana] gold, usually as
uttatta" molten gold ; said of the colour of the skin
Bu 1.59; Pv III. 3'; J V.416; PvA 10 suvanna).
-agga gold-crested J v. 156; -chavin of golden com-
-pabha golden
plexion J VI. 13 ; -taca (adj.) id. J v. 393 ;
splendour Bn xxiii.23 ; -vimana a fairy palace of gold
VvA 6 ; PvA 47, 53 ; -sikhari a golden peak, in °r5ja
king of the golden peaks (i. e. Himalayas) : Davs iv.30.
Kanittba (adj.) [Sk. kani^tba ; compar. &. superl. ; see
kafifla] younger, youngest, younger bom Vin 111.146
(isi the younger) ; J 11. 6 ; PvA 42, 54 ; esp. the younger
brother (opp. jettha, "ka) J 1.132 ; DhA 1.6, 13; Mhvs.
9, 7 ; PvA 19, 55. Comb"" with jet^haka the elder &
younger brothers J 1.253 ; sabba- k. the very youngest
J 1-395- f- kanittha the youngest daughter DhA 1.396.
— fig. later, lesser, inferior, in °phala the lesser fruit
(of sanctification) Pv iv.i'*. — akaniftha "not the
smaller " i. e. the greatest, highest ; in akanittbagamin
going to the highest gods (cp. parinibbayin) S v. 237 =
285, etc. "bhavana the abode of the highest gods
J. 111.487.
Kanittbaka (adj.) younger (opp. jettha) A iv.93 = J 11.348 ;
DhA 1.152; the younger brother Mhvs 5, 33, 8, 10;
35. 49 ; 36, 116 ; -°ika and °aka a younger sister, Mhvs
1, 49; Pv i.ii' (better read for kaniuba).
Kanit^batta (nt.) the more recent and therefore lower, less
developed state (of sanctification) DhA 1.152.
Kanittbl (i) a younger sister Mhvs 7, 67.
Kaniya (adj.) [compar. of kan°, Sk. kaniyags] younger,
less, inferior Kacc 122 (only as a grammarian's construction,
not in the living language where it bad
coalesced with •kanya=kaiifiS).
Kanta^ [Sk. kanta, pp. of kSmeti] — i. (adj.) in special
sense an attribute of worldly pleasure (cp. kama,
kSmaguija) : plea.sant, lovely, enjoyable ; freq. in foim.
ittha kanta manapa, referring to the pleasures of the
senses S 1.245 ; 11.192 ; iv.60, 158. 235 sq. ; v. 22, 60, 147 ;
A 11.66 sq.; M 1.85; Sn 759; It 15; Vbh 2, 100, 337;
bala° (lovely in the opinion of the ignorant) Sn 399. —
D 11.265 I1I-227 (ariya°); J in. 264 ; v. 447; with ref. to
the fruit of action as giving pleasure : °phala Kvu 35,211,
PvA 277 (hatthi-) k° pleasing to elephants; of manta
1.163. — 2. be-
DhA 1.163 ; of Vina J vi.255, 262 ; DhA
loved by, ifavourite of, charming J vi.255, 262 ; DhA
1. 163. — 3. (n.) the beloved one, the husband J vi.370
(wrongly written kan tena) ; of a precious stone Miln
118; Sdhp 608, rp. suriya", canda"—kanta (f.) the
beloved one, the wife J v. 293 ; kantena (instr.) agree-
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ably, with kind words A 11.213 J v. 486 (where porisadassa
kante should te read as porisadassak' ante).
— a" undesired, disagreeable, unpleasant, in same form
as kanta, e. g. D 11.192; in other comb" J v.295
Vbh 100; Neit 180; PvA 193. — akantena with unpleasant
words A II. 2 3. —kantatara compar. 1 J 111.260.
-bhava the state of being pleasant DA 1.76 ; VvA 323.
Kanta' [pp. of kantati', Sk. kftta. kanta is analogyform,
after pres. kantati, regularly we should expect
katta. See also avakanta. It may be simply misreading
for katta, cp. kern, Toev. under parikanta.] cut,
cut out or of! Th 2, 223 (°salla=samucchinna-rag'-adi-
salla ThA 179) cp. katta & pari".