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कटच्छु (kaTacchu)

 
Spoken Sanskrit
English
कटच्छु kaTacchu
f.
 spoon
Monier Williams Cologne
English
कट—च्छु
f.
 (?) a spoon,
VarBṛS.
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
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, Iconographic, 〔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-dhūpakaṭacchukām 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-dhūpakaṭacchu-hasta-parigṛhītān Suv 〔86.3〕
dhūpa-kaṭacchukam ādāya Divy 〔398.28—29〕
(dakṣiṇahaste) dhūpa-kaṭacchukaṃ (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, (Pūraṇaṃ, q.v., dharmaśāṭapraticchannaṃ) kaṭaccha-vratabhojanam (might mean eating according to a vow of spoonfuls, 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.