Pāli Dictionary

paccaya

patiprefixirootasuffix

Part of speech

noun · masculine

Root

i1go; come

Synonyms

vaṇṇa, hetu, patiṭṭha, parikkhāra, paṭibandha, upanissaya, ṭhitika

Antonyms

appaccaya, apaccaya

doctrine

  • cause; condition; ground; supporting condition; relation (in the Abhidhamma system of conditional relations)

monastic

  • requisite; support; means of help; (especially) the four requisites of a monastic (robes, almsfood, lodging, medicine)

mind

  • trust; confidence; reliance; faith

general

  • (grammar) affix; suffix; verbal ending

  • (as adjective) dependent (on); reliant (on); based (on); supported (by)

  • MN 56

    atha kho upāli gahapati diṭṭhadhammo pattadhammo viditadhammo pariyogāḷhadhammo tiṇṇavicikiccho vigatakathaṃkatho vesārajjappatto aparappaccayo satthusāsane bhagavantaṃ etadavoca, handa ca dāni mayaṃ, bhante, gacchāma, bahukiccā mayaṃ bahukaraṇīyā'ti.

paccayā

approximate

patiprefixirootasuffix

Part of speech

indeclinable

Root

i1go; come

doctrine

  • conditioned by; because of; due to (as in the formula ‘X paccayā Y’ - conditioned by X, Y arises)

  • MN 38

    avijjāpaccayā saṅkhārā, saṅkhārapaccayā viññāṇaṃ, viññāṇapaccayā

  • AN 10.61

    purimā, bhikkhave, koṭi na paññāyati avijjāya, ito pubbe avijjā n'āhosi, atha pacchā samabhavī'ti. evañ'c'etaṃ, bhikkhave, vuccati, atha ca pana paññāyati, idappaccayā avijjā'ti

Encyclopedia

2 entries

Paccaya
Person

  • An Arahant of noble birth from Rohī who renounced the world after hearing the Buddha teach from a jewelled pavilion in the sky, and who, ninety-one world-cycles earlier, had offered a fig to the Buddha Vipassī.

Thag 3.2
Paccaya2
Person

  • The state elephant of Prince Vessantara, brought to the royal stall on the day of his birth.

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