mahallaka (11651)

mahallaka
Entry 11651, Page 421, Col. 2

(mahallaka, mahallaka)
mahallaka¦, f. °ikā, adj. and subst. (= prec.; etym. Pischel 595, wrongly PTSD; = Pali and AMg. id., both mgs.), (1) old; an old person, elder; oftenest of humans: commonly after jīrṇo vṛddho, in stock phrase, SP 72.2; 102.10; 322.3; LV 102.12; Mv ii.150.18; 425.17; Mvy 4097; 7657; Kv 48.12; Av i.228.3 (prec. by jīrṇa-vṛddho); Suv 176.5 (prec. by vṛddho jīrṇo); jīrṇānāṃ vṛddhānāṃ °llakānāṃ Divy 112.22; mahallaka-mahallikāḥ Śākyā(ḥ) LV 100.11; 118.3, the male and female Śākya-elders; daharā ca madhyā ca °llakā ca Mv i.262.18; °llakas Mmk 593.25 (vs; see mahalla); °kaḥ Mvy 8722, a senior monk (? Tib., rgan zhugs, lit. having entered when old; Chin. also seems to mean one who entered the order after middle life); of an elephant, °ko hastināgas Divy 370.26, and °ke (without noun) 'bhiruhya 27; grāme °kāḥ Mv i.302.3, the elders in the village; not clear in corrupt line Mv ii.63.7 (mss. mahallikāya, or maharddhikāya, perh. referring somehow to Hrī?); at end of cpds., yakṣa-mahallako vā yakṣa- mahallikā vā Mmk 395.1, a male or female yakṣa-elder; so in Māy 225.14 ff. deva-mahallaka and °likā, and a long series of other such cpds.; (2) large (so AMg., and Pali, at least with vihāra, e.g. Vin. ii.166.20; iii.156.15; this use ignored PTSD, tho noted in Childers), noted only as ep. of a vihāra: MSV ii.128.12; Mvy 8375 °kaḥ, sc. vihāraḥ, and °ka- MSV iii.88.1, referring to the saṃ- ghāvaśeṣa sin of Prāt 481.4, where lacuna in BHS text but Chin. (une) grande (demeure), = Pali Vin. iii.156.15 °kaṃ…vihāraṃ; also °kaṃ…vihāraṃ Prāt 506.10 = id. Pali Vin. iv.47.22.

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