pilotika (9543)

pilotika
Entry 9543, Page 346, Col. 1

(pilotika, pilotika)
pilotika¦ (m. or nt., in mg. 2 perhaps °kā f.; = Pali °kā, once °ka m. or nt., Jāt. iv.365.19; MIndic for plotika, ploti, qq.v. for discussion), (1) piece of cloth, rag: karpā- sikaṃ paṭa-pilotikam ādāya (in becoming a monk) Mv iii.50.15; paṭa-pilotika-saṃghāṭī(ṃ) Mv iii.53.14, 16; 54.1 ff.; (2) (gender uncertain), when modified by chinna, perh. connecting cord or thread, binding cord, bond (presumably of karman, see s.v. ploti-ka): chinnā (mss. °ne) pilotikā Mv iii.63.10, cut are the cords (of dharmavinaya, by the Buddha); (Bhvr.) daṇḍachinna-pilotiko (said of dharmavi- nayo) Mv iii.412.11, whose cords are cut (as) with a stick (? no other use of daṇḍa in this connexion has been noted; note that chinna-pilotika in Pali is an ep. of dhamma, and chinna-plotika, see the latter, in BHS of dharma; here also of dharmavinaya). See also pailottaka (?), °ttika.

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