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भैक्षाक (bhaikSAka)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
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भैक्षाक
n.
mendicancy,
Bcar.
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
bhaikṣāka (to Skt. and BHS bhikṣāka plus -a), as adj., relating to a mendicant: Buddhacarita 〔xii.46〕 °kaṃ liṅgam āśritaḥ, and as n. mendicancy, ib. 〔x.23〕
〔xiii.10〕
in BHS bhaikṣāka-kula, nt., a family that (regularly) gives almsfood (to a monk), is to be read for bhaikṣākulaṃ Divy 〔263.2〕 (yad apy asmākam ekaṃ °kulaṃ, tad api śramaṇo Gautamo 'nvāvartayati, said by a non-Buddhist), for bhaikṣyāka-kula MSV 〔iv.226.17〕, and for bhekṣāka-kula KP 〔114.2, 5〕, where a monk is warned not to cultivate such relations. Tib. on KP zas ster (baḥi) khyim.