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Cakka Cakkhu

wheel (of a carriage) Dh 1; PvA 65 (ratha°); Miln 27. — 2. a DhA ii.135 (°sirī). — °gabbha Vism 126: — °rajjaṁ kāresi
discus used as a missile weapon J i.74; Pgdp 36; cp. khura° a J ii.311; -viddha (nt.) a particular form of shooting J v.130;
razor as an instr. of torture. — 3. a disc, a circle: heṭṭhāpā- -samārūḷha (adj.) having mounted the wheels, i. e. their carts
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datalesu cakkāni jātāni, forming the 2 characteristic mark of (of janapadā) A i.178; iii.66, 104.
a Mahāpurisa D ii.17= iii.143; D iii.149. — J ii.331; Miln
Cakkalaka [fr. cakka] a disc or tuft (?) Vism 255 (kaḷīra°, where
51. — 4. an array of troops (under tayo vyūhā: paduma°
KhA 50 reads in same context kaḷīra — daṇḍa).
cakka° sakaṭa°) J ii.404=iv.343. — II. Applied meaning: 1.
Cakkali (f.) drapery Vin ii.174.
(a wheel as component part of a carriage, or one of a duad or
tetrad=) collection, set, part; succession; sphere, region, cycle Cakkalikā a window blind, curtain Vin ii.148.
Vin i.330 (cp. Vin. Texts ii.281); iii.96; iriyāpatha° the 4 ways
Cakkavāka [Vedic cakravāka, cp. kṛkavāku, to sound root kṛ,
of behaviour, the various positions (standing, walking, sitting,
see note on gala] the ruddy goose (Anas Casarca) J iii.520;
lying down) DA i.249; Sdhp 604. sā°, miga° the sphere or iv.70 sq. (N. of J No. 451); Pv ii.12 ; Miln 364, 401; — f.
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region of dogs & wild animals Miln 178; cakkena (instr.) in cakkavākī J iii.524; vi.189=501.
succession PvA iii. cakkaṁ kātabbaṁ, or bandhitabbaṁ
Cakkavāḷa (m. & nt.) a circle, a sphere, esp. a mythical range
freq. in Yam. and Paṭṭh, "The cycle of formulated words is
of mountains supposed to encircle the world; pl. worlds or
to be here repeated." — 2. (like the four wheels constituting
spheres J i.53, 203; vi.330; Vism 205 (its extent), 207, 367,
the moving power of a carriage=) a vehicle, instrument, means
421; DhsA 297; DhA 11. 15; iii.498; in the trope "cakkavāḷaṁ
& ways; attribute, quality; state, condition, esp. good condi-
atisambādhaṁ brahmaloko atinīco" (=the whole world cannot
tion (fit instrumentality), catucakka an instr. of four, a lucky
hold it) to express immensity DhA i.310; VvA 68.
tetrad, a fourwheeler of the body as expressing itself in the
-gabbha the interior of the C. sphere J iv.119; DA i.284;
four kinds of deportment, iriyāpathas A ii.32; S i.16, 63 (catu-
-pabbata (nt.) the C. mountains, "world's end" J iii.32; vi.272;
cakkaṁ). In this sense generalized as a happy state, consisting
-rajja (nt.) the whole world, strictly speaking the whole region
of "4 blessings": paṭirūpadesa — vāsa, sappurisûpassaya, atta
of a sphere J ii.392.
— sammāpaṇidhi, pubbe — kata — puññatā A ii.32; J v.114;
mentioned at Ps i.84. Cp. also Sn 554 sq.; 684. Esp. pro- Cakkhu (nt.) [Vedic cakṣuḥ, etym. not clear, as redupl. perhaps
nounced in the two phrases dhamma-cakka (the wheel of the to īks, akṣa eye, kṣạṇa moment, or as intens. to cit, cp. cin-
Doctrine, i. e. the symbol of conquering efficacy, or happi- teti, & see Walde, Lat. Wtb. under inquam] the eye (nom. sg.
ness implicated in the D.) and brahma — c° the best wheel, cakkhuṁ Vin i.34; S i.115; M iii.134, etc.). — I. The eye as
the supreme instrument, the noblest quality. Both with pavat- organ of sense — (a) psychologically: cakkhunā rūpaṁ disvā
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teti to start & kcep up (like starting & guiding a carriage), to set "seeing visible object (shape) with the eye" (Nd on rūpa q. v.)
rolling, to originate, to make universally known. dhamma° e. is the defin. of this first & most important of the senses (cp.
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g. S i.191; A i.23, 101; ii.34, 120; iii.151; iv.313; Sn 556 sq.; Pv ii.6 dakkhiṇa c.=the most valuable thing): the psychology
693; J iii.412; Ps ii.159 sq.; PvA 67 (see dhamma). brahma° of sight is discussed at DA i.194 sq., and more fully at Dhs
M i.71; S ii.27; A ii.9, 24; iii.9, 417; v.33; Vbh 317 sq.; 344 597 sq. (see DhsA 306 sq; Dhs trsl. 173 sq.); cp. cak khunā
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(see brahma). Cp. cakkavattin (below). — Cp. vi°. puriso ālokati rūpagatāni Nd 234. In any enumeration of the
-chinna (udaka) (water of a well) the wheel of which is senses cakkhu heads the list, e. g. Vin i.34; D i.21; ii.308,
broken Ud 83; -bhañjanin one who destroys a state of wel- 336 sq.; iii.102, 225, 244 sq.; 269; Nett 28. — See rūpa. Also
fare & good J v.112 (patirāpadesavāsādino kusala — cakkassa combd. with sota: M i.318; iii.264; A i.281. — cakkhusmiṁ
bhañjanī C.); -bheda breaking peace or concord, sowing haññati rūpehi S iv.201; hata° A i.129. passāmi naṁ manasā
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discord Vin ii.198; iii.171; -yuga a pair of wheels Vv 83 ; cakkhunā va "I see him with my mind as with my eye" Sn
-ratana the treasure of the wheel, that is of the sun (cp. Rh. 1142. — Vin i.184; S i.32, 199; iv.123; Dh 360; J iv.137; DA
D. Buddh. Suttas p. 252; Dialogues ii.197, 102) D ii.171; i.183; Nett 191. Vism 444 sq. As adj. (—°) seeing, having
iii.59 sq., 75; J i.63; ii.311; DA i.249. See also cakkavattin; or catching sight of: eka° (dvi°) one — eyed (two°) A i.128
-vaṭṭaka (nt.) a scoop — wheel (a wheel revolving over a sq.; āmisa° seeing an object of sensual enjoyment S ii.226;
well with a string of earthen pots going down empty & coming iv.159; J v.91 (=kilesalola). acakkhu blind A iii.250, 256; Ps
up full, after dredger fashion) Vin ii.122; -vattin (cp. dham- i.129. — (b) ethically: as a "sense" belonging to what is called
macakkaṁ pavatteti above) he who sets rolling the Wheel, a "body" (kāya) it shares all the qualities of the latter (see kāya),
just & faithful king (rājā hoti c. dhammiko dhammarājā cātu- & is to be regarded as an instr. only, i. e. the person must
ranto Sn p. 106, in corresp. pass. v. 1002 as vijeyya pathaviṁ not value it by itself or identify himself with it. Subduing the
imaṁ adaṇḍena asatthena dhammena — m — anusāsati). A senses means in the first place acquiring control over one's
definition is given by Bdhgh. at DA i.249. — Three sorts eyes (cp. okkhitta cakkhu, with down — cast eyes Sn 63, 411,
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of c. are later distinguished: a cakkavāla — c° a universal 972; Pv iv.3 ; & indriyesu guttadvāra; °indriya). In this con-
king, or cāturanta — c° (ruling over four great continents Sn nection the foll. passages may be mentioned: Vin i.34; D i.70;
p. 106; KhA 227), a dīpa — c° (ruling over one), a padesa — S iv.123; ii.244 (aniccaṁ, etc.); iii.255 (do.) iv.81, 128 (na
c° (ruling over part of one) Usually in phrase rājā cakka vat- tumhākaṁ); Ps I.132 (aniccatṭhaṁ). Numerous others see un-
tin: D i.88; iii.156; iv.302; v.44, 99, 342; D ii.16, 172; iii.59 der rūpa. — II. The eve as the most important channel of men-
sq., 75, 142 sq.; M iii.65; A i.76, 109 sq.; ii.37, 133, 245; tal acquiring, as faculty of perception & apperception; insight,
iii.147 sq; 365; iv.89, 105; v.22; Kh viii.12 (°sukha); J i.51; knowledge (cp. veda, ολδα to vid, to see). In connection with
ii.395; iv.119; Vbh 336; PvA 117; VvA 18; Sdhp 238, 453; ñāṇa (γη¨ωσις) it refers to the apperception of the truth (see

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