kaṭacchu (4336)

kaṭacchu
Entry 4336, Page 164, Col. 2

(kawacCu, kawacCu)
kaṭacchu¦, m. or f., °chuka (once nt.) and °chukā (?), also °cha and °chaka (app. = Pali kaṭacchu, spoon, ladle; cf. Deśīn. 2.7 kaḍacchū, comm. ayodarvī), in most occurrences could be either spoon or bowl; it seems that Tib. and Chin. sources support mg. bowl, vessel; so Mvy 9013 kaṭacchuḥ, Tib. nal ze, which I do not find in Dictt., but nal may be connected with na li, bowl, basin (of iron or china, Jä.), while Chin. gives (1) pillow (often made of porcelain), or (2) bowl, basin; on Suv 86.3 and Mmk 65.2 Tib. is cited as snod, vessel (Mmk ap. Lalou, Icono- graphic, p. 84, line 11, who nevertheless translates cuiller, pp. 37, 44); in favor of mg. spoon may be cited (besides the Pali and Deśī words) Megh 310.10 sapta-dhūpa- kaṭacchukām utkṣiped ākāśe (hardly bowlful! if text is right acc. sg. f., but perhaps this represents °kān, acc. pl. m.); most commonly in cpds. preceded by dhūpa-, incense-spoon (? -bowl), generally as held in the hand by a painted image, dhūpa-kaṭacchuka-vyagra-hasta Mmk 65.2; 69.12, etc.; 322.25 (here °kaṭacchaka°); eka-dhūpa- kaṭacchu-hasta-parigṛhītān Suv 86.3; dhūpa-kaṭacchukam ādāya Divy 398.28--29; (dakṣiṇahaste) dhūpa-kaṭacchu- kaṃ (n. sg. nt.!) kartavyaṃ Kv 74.20; dhūpa-°ke dhūpaś copasthāpayitavyaḥ MSV iii.97.16; in Divy 165.18 acc. to Index vessel, but this seems less than certain, (Pūra- ṇaṃ, q.v., dharmaśāṭapraticchannaṃ) kaṭaccha-vrata- bhojanam (might mean eating according to a vow of spoon- fuls, i.e. of limiting his food to a definite number of them, rather than eating by a vow of the begging-bowl). In Divy 475.21 kāṇḍa-kaṭacchu-pūra-kūrca-bhaiṣajya-sthavikāś is obscure to me at more than one point; the cpd. evidently lists articles pertaining to children, and either spoon or bowl is conceivable.

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