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Potaki 97 Porin
Potaki (°i ?) (m. f. ?) [etym. uncertain, prob. Non-Aryan]
a kind of grass, in °tiiia a kind of cotton, " grass-tuft,"
thistle-down (?) Vinii.150 ; iv.170 (id., 3 kinds of cotton,
spelt potaki here).
Potakila [etym. unknown, cp. potaki & (lexic.) Sk. potagala
a kind of reed ; the variant is potagala] a kind of
grass. Saccharum spontaneum Th i. 27 = 233 ; J vi.508
( =p.''-tinar) nama C).
Potthabba is spurious reading for photthabba (q. v.).
Potha [fr. puth, cp. pothana & potheti] is anguli° snapping
of one's fingers (as sign of applause) J v.67. Cp.
pothana & photeti.
Pothana (& Pothana) (nt.) [fr. potheti] i. striking, beating
J 11.169 (tajjana°) ; v.72 (udaka°) ; vi.41 (kappasa°dhanuka).
At all J passages th. — 2. (th) snapping
one's fingers J 1.394 (anguli°, + celukkhepa) : ThA
76 (anguli°, for acchara-sanghata Th 2, 67). Cp.
nippothana.
Pothita (& Pothita) [pp. of potheti] beaten, struck Miln
240 (of cloth, see Kern. Toev. s. potheti) ; J iir.423
(maiica; v. 1. BB pappot") KhA 173 (°tulapicu cotton
beaten seven times, i. e. very soft ; v. 1. pothita, see
App. p. 877); DhA 1.48 (su°) ; PvA
pothita.
174. — Cp. pari-
Potheti (& Potheti) [fr. puth = sputh] i. to beat, strike
Sn 682 (bhujani = appotheti SnA 485); J 1.188, 483
(th) 11.394: VI. 548 (=akoteti); DhA 1.48; n.27 (th),
67 (th) : VvA 68 (th) ; P\-A 65 (th). — 2. to snap one's
fingers as a token of annoyance D 11.96 ; or of pleasure
J III. 285 (anguliyo pothesi). — pp. pothita. — Caus. II.
pothapeti (poth°) to cause to be beaten or flogged Miln
221 ;
DhA 1.399. — Cp. pappotheti.
Pa^a^ (nt.) [=pona*?] only in cpd. danta° a tooth pick
Vin iv.go ; J
iv.69 ; Miln 15; SnA 272. As danta-
ponaka at Davs 1.57. — kQta-pona at Vism 268 read
°gona.
PoQa^ ('idj.) [fr. pa -(- ava -)- nam, cp. ninna & Vedic pravana]
i. sloping down, prone, in anupubba" gradually
sloping (of the ocean) Vin 11.237 =A iv.198 sq.=Ud 53.
— 2. (-°) sloping towards, going to. converging or
leading to Nibbana ; besides in var. phrases, in general
as tanninna tappona tappabbhara, " leading to that
end." As nibbana° e. g. at M 1.493 ; S v. 38 sq. : A
III. ; 443 cp. Vv 84^^ (nekkhamma°-nibl5ana-ninna
VvA 348); tag° Ps 11. 197; thane PvA 190; viveka°
A iv.224, 233; V.175; samadhi" Miln 38; kig°
M 1.302.
Pojjika (adj.) [fr. pona^] that which is prone, going prone ;
DA 1.23 where the passage is " tiracchana-gata-panapoijika-nikayo
cikkhallika-nikayo ti," quoted from S
III. 152, where it runs thus: " tiracchana-gata pana te
pi bhikkhave tiracchanagata pana citten' eva cittata."
The passage is referred to with ponika at KhA 12,
where we read " tiracchana-gata pana ponika-nikayo
cikkhallika-nikayo ti." Thus we may take ponikanikaya
as " the kingdom of those which go prone "
(i. e. the animals).
Pota^ [cp. Epic Sk. pota, see putta for etym.] the young
of an animal J H.406 (°sukara) ; Cp. i.io* (udda°) :
SnA 125 (siha°).
Pota^ [Epic Sk. pota :
boat Davs v.58 ;
dial, form for plota (?), of pla] a
VvA 42.
l?ota'' [etym. ?] a millstone, grindstone, only as nisada°
Vin 1.20 1 ; Vism 252.
Pfltaka {-") [fr. pota^] I. the voung of an animal M 1.104
(kukkuta°); J 1.202 (supanna"), 218 (hatthi°) : 11.288
(assa° colt); in. 174 (sakuna") ; PvA 152 (gaja°). — f.
potika J 1.207 (har)sa°) : iv.188 (miisika"). — 2. a small
branch, offshoot, twig : in amba° young mango sprout
DhA III. 206 sq. ;
arani" small firewood Miln 53.
Pottha* [?] poor, indigent, miserable J n.432 (=potthakapilotikaya
nivatthata pottho C. : v. 1. potha). See also
*ponti, with which ultimately identical.
?]
Pottha^ [later Sk. pusta. etym. uncertain ; loan-word
modelling, only in cpd. °kamma plastering (i. e. using
a mixture of earth, lime, cowdung & water as mortar)
J VI. : 459 carving DhsA : 334 and °kara a modeller in
clay J 1.71. Cp. potthaka'.
Potthaka^ [cp. Class. Sk. pustaka] i. a book J 1.2 (aya°
iv.299. 487; VvA 117. — 2. any-
ledger); in. 235, 292 ;
thing made or modelled in clay (or wood etc.). in rupa°
a modelled figure J vi.342 ; ThA 257 ;
363. 383. Cp. pottha^
DA
1.198 ; Sdhp
Potthaka' (nt.) [etym. ?] cloth made of makaci fibre
' Vin 1.306 (cp. Vin. Texts 11.247) ^ 1.246 sq. ; J iv.25i
(=ghana-sataka C. ; v. 1. sana°) ; Pug
33.
Potthanika (f.) [fr. puth?] a dagger (=potthani) Vin
II. 190 =DA 1. 1 35 (so read here with v. 1. for T. °iya).
Potthani (f.) ^fr. puth ?] a butcher's knife J vi.86 (magsakotthana°).
iii (id.).
Pothujjanika (adj.) [fr. puthujjana] belonging to ordinary
man, common, ordinal^, in 2 comb"" viz. (i) phrase
v. 2 16;
hina gamma p. anariya Vin i.io; S iv.330 ; A
(2) with ref. to iddhi Vin 11. 183 ; J 1.360 ; Vism 97. —
Cp. Vin. Texts 111.230. The BSk. forms are either
parthag-janika Lai. Vist 540, or prathub-janika MVastu
in. 331.
Pothetva at J 11. 404 (ummukkani p.) is doubtful. The
vv. 11. are yodhetira & sodhetva (the latter a preferable
reading).
Poddava see gama°.
Ponobhavika (adj.) [fr. punabbhava, with preservation of
the second o (puno>punah) see puna] leading to
rebirth M 1.48, 299, 464, 532 ; S in. 26 ; iv.186 ; D in. 57 ;
A II. 1 1 sq., 172; III. 84, 86; v.88 ; Nett 72; Vism 506;
VbhA no.
Ponti (vv. II. pothi. sonti) Th 2. 422, 423 is doubtful ; the
expl" at ThA 269 is " pilotikakkanda," thus " rags (of
an ascetic)," cp. J.P.T.S. 1884. See also pottha\ with
which evidently identical, though misread.
Poiava (adj.) [=puraiia, cp. Epic Sk. paurana] old,
S 11.267 : Sn 313 ; Dh 227
ancient, former D 1.71. 238 ;
(cp. DhA in. 328) : J 11.15 ("kale in the past); VbhA i
fatthakatha), 523 (id.); KhA 247 (°patha) ; SnA 131
(id.); DhA 1.17; PvA i (°atthakatha), 63. — Porana
(pi.) the ancients, ancient authorities or writers Vism
passim esp. Note, 764 ; KhA 123, 158 ; SnA 291, 352,
604 ; VbhA 130, 254, 299, 397, 5I3-
Pora^aka (adj.) [fr. porana] i. ancient, former, of old
(cp. purana i) J in. 16 (°pandita) PvA ; 93 (id.). 99
(id.); DhA 1.346 (kula-santaka). — 2. old, worn, much
used (cp. purana 2) J iv.471 (magga).
Porin (adj.) [fr. pora = Epic Sk. paura citizen, see pura.
Semantically cp. urbane>urbanus>urbs ; poIite =
7roAiri|i>m'iXtf. For pop. etym. see DA 1.73 & 282]
belonging to a citizen, i. e. citizenlike, urbane, polite,
usually in phrase pori vaca polite speech D 1.4, 114;
S 1.189 11.280= ; A 11.5 1 ; A in.i 14 ; Pug 57 ;
DA 1.75, 282 ; DhsA
in. 322.
1344 ;
Dhs
397. Cp. BSk. pauri vaca MVastu