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तत्तक (tattaka)

 
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
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., LaVallée-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〕.