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Pali Dictionary

by U Kyaw Tun, et. al.

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kā-ya

kāya

{ka-ya.} 

UMK-USL p9
n. body; corporal entity consisting of: 1. the physical organism made up of 32 constituent parts such as hair, body-hair, blood-cells, etc.; 2. the body, location of the sense organs; 3. psyshomotor functions of the body.

kāya -- group, heap, collection, aggregate, body. PTS p207-209 gives an extensive meanings and explanations on kāya.
Literal meanings:
mahājana-kāya -- a collection of people, a crowd
bala-kāya -- a great crowd
hatthi-kāya -- a herd of elephants
ratha-kāya -- a group of carriages
patti-kāya -- a company of soldiers
Applied meanings: kāya under the physical aspect is an aggregate of a multiplicity of elements which finally can be reduced to the four "great" elements, viz. earth, water, fire and air.
Compare with khandha PTS p232

PTS p232
khandha -- Applied meanings: the body of, a collection of, mass or parts of; in collective sense "all that is composed under"; forming the substance of, e.g. dukkha khandha   -- all that goes to make up or forms the substance, the idea of "ill".

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