Pāli Dictionary

kāyadhātu

kāyaprefixdhātustem

Part of speech

noun · feminine

Synonyms

sarīra, deha, samussaya, kaḷevara, kaḷebara, sandeha, bhastā, gahaka

doctrine

  • the body-element; the sensitive body-base that is the physical faculty of touch (one of the eighteen elements)

  • MN 115

    aṭṭhārasa kho imā, ānanda, dhātuyo, cakkhudhātu, rūpadhātu, cakkhuviññāṇadhātu, sotadhātu, saddadhātu, sotaviññāṇadhātu, ghānadhātu, gandhadhātu, ghānaviññāṇadhātu, jivhādhātu, rasadhātu, jivhāviññāṇadhātu, kāyadhātu, phoṭṭhabbadhātu, kāyaviññāṇadhātu, manodhātu, dhammadhātu, manoviññāṇadhātu.

approximate

Compound structure

analyses: 1

kāyādhātu
  1. kāyākāya

    body; the physical body (also as the organ of touch and the agent of bodily action)

  2. dhātu

    element; property (the four great elements; the six elements; the eighteen elements of experience)

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