TIL

Pali Dictionary

by U Kyaw Tun, et. al.

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Contents of this file: kalala | kalāpa | kali-yuga |

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ka-la

kalala

{ka.la.la.}

UMK-USL p2
n. embryo

PTS p198
kalala --
1. mud,
2. residue of sesame oil,
3. "soil", placenta,
4. fetus, appl. to an egg i.e. the yolk

UKT: The meaning "residue of sesame oil", probably means the oil cake left after pressing out the oil from sesame seeds. At least in Myanmar, sesame oil was the only cooking oil available in my early childhood. Even when peanut oil was introduced, Myanmars prefer to use sesame oil because it is believed that it has medicinal properties. The oil cake is stored as dried slabs to be used as a fertilizer and also as an animal feed. For feeding animals, the dried cake is boiled together with broken rice. The paste is then mixed with cut straw (rice straw or corn straw) and fed to the cattle. For use as a fertilizer, the cakes are soaked in water in a pot and left until the mush had become fully putrefied. This is done away from residences because of the strong odor produced. The mush is then mixed with water and spread out in the field. Cattle manure (again after being putrefied) is the only animal dung used as fertilizer. Human and pig excreta was never used.

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kalāpa

{ka.la-pa.}

UMK-USL p2
n. cell formed of a minimum of eight constituents
i.e. the four essential principles of matter plus appearance, odour, taste and nutriment.
mahā-bhūta -- the four essential principles of matter:
1. paṭhavi -- extension (represented by Earth)
2. āpo -- cohesion or fluidity (represented by Water)
3. tejo -- heat (represented by Fire)
4. vāyo -- motion (represented by Wind)

PTS p196
kalāpa -- 1. anything that comprises a number of things of the same kind; a bundle, a bunch; sheaf; a row, multitude; usually of grass, bamboo or sugar-cane, sometimes of hair and feathers. 2. quiver. 3. in philosophy, a group of qualities pertaining to the material body.

kalápa, 'group', 'unit': 1. 'corporeal unit' (s. rúpa-kalápa); 2. It has the meaning of 'group of existence' (khandha) in kalápasammasana (s. sammasana), i.e. 'comprehension by groups', which is the application of 'methodical (or inductive) insight' (naya-vipassaná) to the comprehension of the 5 aggregates (khandha) as impermanent, painful and not-self. It is a process of methodical summarization, or generalization, from one's own meditative experience that is applied to each of the 5 aggregates, viewed as past, present, future, as internal and external, etc. In Vis.M. XX, where the 'comprehension by groups' is treated in detail, it is said to constitute 'the beginning of insight' as it leads to the 'knowledge of rise and fall', being the first of the 8 insight knowledges (s. visuddhi VI). It is necessary for accomplishing the 5th purification (s. visuddhi V; Vis.M. XX, 2, 6ff.). -- NBD