tattaka (6800)

tattaka
Entry 6800, Page 248, Col. 1

(tattaka, tattaka)
tattaka¦, f. °ikā, adj. (also, rarely, written tātaka, tāttaka, tātuka, and in mss. sometimes with nt for tt; = Pali tattaka, Geiger 111.6; perh. analog. to Pali kittaka, BHS kettaka, and Pali, BHS ettaka, if Geiger is right in deriving these from kiyat-, iyat-; cf. yattaka), sg. so great, so much, pl. so many; in most texts only in vss, but in Mv common in prose, and KP has tāttaka, q.v., in prose: na ca vīrya sya tattakaṃ SP 254.3 (vs; Kashgar rec., La Vallée-Poussin, JRAS 1911.1073.1, tātakam); gaṇanā yeṣa tattikā (Kashgar rec. tātikāḥ) SP 304.9 (vs), f. pl., so many; gaṇanāya tattakāḥ (v.l. tāta°) 330.11 (vs), m. pl.; tattakaṃ, so great, so much, Mv i.364.1; ii.90.15; 276.2, 7 (these and most of our Mv citations are prose); tattaka (m. acc. pl.) Dbh.g. 41(67).16, 17; rarely in mg. (only) so much = so little, tattakaṃ āhāraṃ (…yathā) Mv ii.242.2, 3; in correlation with yattaka, mostly pl., as many…so many, Mv i.266.1; 267.8; 314.1; ii.99.3--4; tattaka before yattaka Mv i.359.22 (both pl.); adverbs, yattakaṃ…tattakaṃ, as often, as many times as… every time, Mv i.246.5--6.