chandaka, (1) (6388)

chandaka, (1)
Entry 6388, Page 235, Col. 1

(Candaka, Candaka)
chandaka, (1)¦ nt. (= Pali id.; from chanda plus ka; see also chanda-yācaka), ‘free-will offering’, general collection of alms for the community of monks, made by going the rounds of the town and inviting subscriptions from all citizens (Av ii.39.4 ff. describes this); chandakāni Av i.269.9; otherwise only chandaka-bhikṣaṇa (nt.) in same mg., MSV i.61.19; ii.77.15; Av i.257.8, 11; 313.9; 314.2, 4; 317.16; ii.39.4 ff.; in i.264.2 (see Speyer's Index) read chandaka-(ed. chandana)-bhikṣaṇa (ms. and ed. bhikṣa; but the missing -ṇa is read in line 7 below); (2) in Av ii.55.3…indriyair avikalatvasya kuśaladharma- chandakasya āścaryādbhuto loke prādurbhāvaḥ, Speyer, Index, renders -chandaka by gathering (of merit); but cf. Pali dhamma-chanda, desire for the Law, opp. to kāma- chanda, desire for lusts; this is certainly the word involved; either chandaka = chanda (ka svārthe), or, perhaps better, read -chandatvasya, which matches the preceding series of nouns in -tva-sya, the appearance in the world of a state of desiring meritorious (or, felicitous) dharma (Law, or states of being ?) is a prodigious marvel; (3) in Mvy 2225 text tīvreṇa chandakaḥ, presumably adj., desiring (vehe- mently); but v.l. chandena, and so Mironov without v.l. (also Index of Kyoto ed. lists this reference under chanda, not under chandaka); this is prob. the true reading: with vehement desire (chanda); (4) n. of the Bodhisattva's charioteer (in Pali Channa; here rarely Chanda, q.v.); sometimes even when the meter seems to demand Chanda, Chandaka is written, as in Mv i.154.9; this is the regular form in prose and vs; Mv i.154.5 (prose), 6, 9; 155.14; ii.25.12 (prose); 114.5 (prose); 159.12 ff.; 189.1 ff.; iii.91.7; 262.8; LV 94.13; 95.10; 123.8; 210.3 ff.; 228.17 ff.; 237.18; Divy 391.22; sent with Kālodāyin by Śuddhodana as messenger to Buddha after his enlightenment, Mv ii.233. 11 ff.