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सखिल (sakhila)

 
Spoken Sanskrit
English
सखिल sakhila
adj.
 with the supplements
सपरिबृंहण saparibRMhaNa
adj.
 together with supplements
साङ्ग sAGga
adj.
 with all its aGgas or supplements
Monier Williams Cologne
English
स—खिल a
mfn.
 (for सख्° See
p.
 1130, col. 3) with the supplements,
Hariv.
सखिल b
mfn.
 (for स-खिल See
p.
 1124, col. 2) friendly,
L.
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
1 sakhila, adj. (= Pali id.
cf. sākhilya and 1 akhila), soft, smooth, once of (a garment of) cloth: sakhilā khu-dayaṃ … karpāsānāṃ paṭapilotikasaṃghāṭī, mṛdukā-dayaṃ … (same words), masinā-d-ayaṃ …, sukhumā-dayaṃ …, tanukā-d-ayaṃ …, etc., Mv 〔iii.53.17〕
this proves that the usual interpretation, friendly, cannot be right
it is of course based on the assumption of derivation from sakhi, but this is proved wrong by the Mv passage
otherwise recorded in Pali and BHS only of speech, esp. the Buddhaʼs
in Pali regularly assoc. with saṇha = ślakṣṇa and mudu = mṛdu
sakhilo glossed muduvacano DN comm. 〔i.287.3 ff.〕, and all comms. agree essentially on this, as well as on sākhalya, sākhalla (= sākhilya), which is the opposite of pharusa(-vācā etc.), e.g. Dhs. 〔1343〕
DN comm. 〔iii.981.15—22〕
sākhallena Jāt. 〔iv.57.5〕, glossed maṭṭhavacanena (note that maṭṭha is also applied to fine cloth, -sāṭaka Vism. 〔284.13〕)
the mg. therefore is smooth, and of speech suave, mild, gentle: Buddhasya sakhilā girā Mv 〔i.314.12〕 (vs), repeated below
su-sakhila-ślakṣṇa-vākyo 〔ii.395.5〕
sakhilā Mvy 〔495〕, in list of epithets of Buddhaʼs speech, = Tib. chub pa (? acc. to Das accomplished, perfected
Chin. seems to mean affecting the hearts of all creatures)
of other (pious) persons, sūrataḥ (mss. su°) sakhilo mṛduḥ Mv 〔ii.371.8〕 (vs)
su-sakhila-vācā 〔iii.280.19〕 (vs, by em.)
saṃmodako sakhilo ślakṣṇavāco (mss. °cā) 〔iii.372.4〕 (vs). The etym. of the word is obscure
BHS akhila = paruṣa, harsh (of speech), suggests interpretation as sa-khila, but may of course be a case of popular etym.
no meaning of khila is known which would seem to fit.
2 sa-khila, afflicted with hardness of heart (khila, q.v.): RP 〔35.12〕 (vs
see kiṃcana).
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2. *सखिल Adj. freundlich, Mahāvy. 20.