paccaya

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Etymology

    Inherited from Sanskrit प्रत्यय (pratyaya).

    Noun

    paccaya m

    1. cause, motive
      • 2017 July 19, Vinodh Rajan, Ben Mitchell, Martin Jansche, Sascha Brawer, “Proposal to Encode Lao Characters for Pali (revised)”, in Unicode Document Register L2017/17106r (PDF), page 20:
        ...ເຈຕະສິກາ ຘັມມາ ຈິຕຕະສະມຸຏຖານັງ ຣູປາບັງ ອະວິຄະຕະປັຈຈະ
        ເຍນະ ປັຈຈະໂຍ
        cetasikā dhammā cittasamuṭthānaṃ rūpānaṃ avigatapaccayena paccayo
        Mental factors are a cause of the forms of origination in the mind via the non-disappearance condition.
    2. requisite
      • 2017 July 19, Vinodh Rajan, Ben Mitchell, Martin Jansche, Sascha Brawer, “Proposal to Encode Lao Characters for Pali (revised)”, in Unicode Document Register L2017/17106r (PDF), page 20:
        ຣູປາຍະຕະນັງ ສັທຘາຍະຕະນັງ
        ຆັນຘາຍະຕະນັງ ຣະສາຍະຕະນັງ ໂຜຏຖັພພາຍະຕະນັງ ມະໂນຘາຕຸຍາ
        ຕັງ ສັມປະຍຸຕຕະການັຎຈະ ຘັມມານັງ ອະວິຄະຕະປັຈຈະເຍນະ ປັຈ
        ຈະໂຍ
        rūpāyatanaṃ saddhāyatanaṃ ghandhāyatanaṃ rasāyatanaṃ phoṭthabbāyatanaṃ manodhātuyā taṃ sampayuttakānañca dhammānaṃ avigatapaccayena paccayo
        Visible object, sound, odour, taste, and tangible object are the cause of the factors of the mind-element and its concomitants via the non-disappearance condition
    3. means
    4. support
    5. (grammar) affix
      • c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar]‎ (overall work in Pali), page 291; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:
        वचवसवहादीनं उकारो वस्स ये ॥६॥
        वच, वस, वह इच्चेवमादीनं धातूनं वकारस्स उकारो होति य पच्चये परे । उच्चते, वुच्चति; वुस्सति; वुय्हति ॥
        6. Vacavasavahādīnaṃ ukāro vassa ye
        Vaca, vasa, vaha iccevamādīnaṃ dhātūnaṃ vakārassa ukāro hoti ya paccaye pare.Uccate, vuccate; vussati; vuyhati.
        Vac, vas, vah etc. which have 'u' for 'va'
        Roots vac, vas, vah and so on etc. have 'u' from 'va' next to the ending 'ya'.
        Exx: uccate, vuccate; vussati; vuyhati.

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