masculine · caraka 1 · caraka 2
Caraka 1. = cara 2 (a messenger) Ja VI 369 (attha°); adjective walking through: sabbalokaṃ° Ja V 395.2. any animal S I 106; Pv-a 153 (vana°).
caraka , m. (not noted in Pali ; rare in Skt. , see pw s.v. 1 c; but recorded in AMg. as caraga-, cpd. with parivvāyaga, just as in BHS ), one of a heretical sect of ascetics; regularly followed in comp. by parivrājaka, the two possibly (as allegedly in AMg. , above, see Ratnach. ) denoting a single sect or class of persons, rather than two: usually preceded, immediately or otherwise, by anyatīrthika ( LV 2.21 ; Mv iii.412.7 ) or anyatīrthya ( SP 276.2 ); caraka-parivrājaka- LV 2.21 ; 380.12 ; SP 276.2 ; Mv iii.412.7 ; Śikṣ 331.11 . The proper Tib. translation seems to be spyod pa pa ; so both LV passages ( Foucaux reads dpyod pa pa for 2.21 , but my photostat of the Lib. of Congr. ed. spyod … ) and SP ; spyod = car-. But Jäschke defines this by Mīmāṃsaka, the correct term for which is dpyod pa pa (both terms are given for Mīmāṃsaka in Mvy 3517 ; Mvy seems to omit caraka); dpyod = examine (mīmāṃs-); Tib. tradition has confused the two.
one who goes about or roams; a wandering ascetic
參考 Cara。
(masc, masc, agent, from carati) walker; wanderer; who frequents who walks or frequents Construction: √car + aka
(masc, masc, agent, from carati) spy Construction: √car + aka
(masc, masc, agent, from carati) roaming animal; wild beast Construction: √car + aka