cArikA · feminine
cārikā (in mg. 2 = Pali id. ), ( 1 ) = cari , q.v. , course of conduct , esp. a religious course leading to enlightenment , pursued by Bodhisattvas; repeatedly used in prose, hence not exclusively m.c. ; usually with a form of the cognate verb carati: caranti ete varabodhi-cārikāṃ SP 131.12 ( vs ); puruṣottama-cārikām acari, so bodhisattva-caryāṃ (note use together of the synonymous forms cārikā and caryā!) … saṃsarati Mv i.3.9 (prose); duṣkara-cār° ( cf. duṣkara-cariṃ LV 276.1 ) Mv ii.130.12 (°kāye, instr. , prose); 237.17 (°kāṃ carantaṃ, prose); bodhisattvacārikāṃ caranto ii.356.19 (prose); caranto bodhicārikāṃ ii.362.20 ( vs ); jinacārikā(ye) ii.375.12 ( vs ); carann uttamabodhicārikāṃ RP 50.2 ( vs ); cariṣye varabodhicārikāṃ Sādh 29.7 ( vs ); otari cārika- (a m.c. )-kalpa-samudrāṃ Bhad 29 ; bodhisattvacārikā Śikṣ 316.18 (prose) and °kaṃ ( prob. misprint for °kāṃ) carantaṃ Gv 423.22 (prose); praṇidhisi cārīkām (ī m.c. for i) asamām (referring to the course of Bodhisattvas) Gv 57.15 ( vs ); saṃsāracārikaiṣā, naiṣā bodhisattvacārikā AsP 329.15 (prose); eka-cārikā Laṅk 291.13 ( vs ), the solitary religious course (of Pratyekabuddhas); ( 2 ) journey, wandering (also = Skt. caryā, which varies with this in the same passages; Pali cārikā id. ), commonly as object of carati or another verb of going ; the place of the journey is either in the loc. or preceding in comp. : magadheṣu cārikāṃ prakrāmat LV 246.2 (prose), cf. magadheṣu caryāṃ (best ms. cārikāṃ) caran 246.6 ; caryāṃ caran kāśiṣu janapadeṣu cārikāṃ ( v.l. caryāṃ) prakrāmat 405.2—3 ; janapadeṣu cārikāṃ prakramet(su) Mv i.231.3 (prose), set out on a journey over the countryside ; cārikāṃ caramāṇo 6; gacchantam … cārikāṃ 234.14 ( vs ); janapadacārikāṃ caramāṇo 244.12 (prose); kāśīṣu cārikāṃ prakrāmi 323.10 (prose); magadheṣu °kāṃ caramāṇo iii.47.10 (prose); °kāṃ pratipannasya, embarked on a journey , 94.3 ( vs ); janapada-cārikā Mvy 9355 ; Kauśaleṣu janapadeṣu °kāṃ caran Divy 80.11 ; °kāṃ cariṣyati 92.8 ; Buddha-cārikā, the journey of a Buddha , 92.25 ; 93.2 ; śmaśānacārikāṃ gantu(ṃ) 267.8, 9 , to go on a trip to a cemetery ; dakṣiṇāgiriṣu janapade °kāṃ caritvā Av i.3.3 ; janapadacārikāṃ caran RP 5.2 (prose); (Pāñcāleṣu janapadeṣu) janapadacārikāṃ caramāṇo Suv 202.3 (prose); also used of journeys to other worlds or states of existence, inferior or superior: nirayacārikāṃ gacchati Mv i.4.15 (prose) went on a trip to (the) hell(s) ; caranto narakacārikāṃ 5.2 ; so also tiracchānacārikāṃ gacchati 27.2 , and caranto tir° °kāṃ 4, a trip among the animal-existences ; pretacārikāṃ 28.3, 5 ; asura-c° 30.1, 3 ; deveṣu °kāṃ gacchati 30.16 ; 31.16 ; and with acc. instead of loc. , devāṃ (= °ān) cār° ga° 33.4 , went on a trip to the gods ; deveṣu cārikāṃ caramāṇena Mv ii.190.17 ; naraka-cārikāṃ carataḥ Av i.241.9 , preta-c° c° 10; ( 3 ) cārikā or cārakā, stream, course (of a river): nadīcārikām avatīrṇaḥ, went down into a river-stream , Av ii.86.3 ; nadīcārakāyāḥ ( ms. , Speyer em. °cārik°) pāre vṛkṣaḥ 4; nadīcārikām uttīrṇaḥ, crossed a river-stream , ii.116.13 ; nadyāṃ cārakāyāṃ (so Speyer ; ms. naṃdyā cārakāyā; read nadyāś, or, semi- MIndic , nadyā, gen. ?) patitas, fell into the stream of a river , or if nadyāṃ is correct, into a river, into its stream , ii.181.17 .
a journey; a going about; a tour
【陰】 旅程，遊蕩。
(fem, fem, from carati) walking tour; walking journey Construction: √car > cār + *ikā