Candaka · neuter
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Chandaka a voluntary collection (of alms for the Saṅgha), usually as °ṃ saṃharati to make a voluntary collection Vin IV 250; Ja I 422; II 45, 85 (saṃharitvā v.l.; text saṅkaḍḍhitvā), 196, 248; III 288 (nava°, a new kind of donation); cf. BHS chandaka-bhikṣana Avś vol. II 227.
chandaka , ( 1 ) nt. (= Pali id. ; from chanda plus ka; see also chanda-yācaka ), ‘free-will offering’, general collection of alms for the community of monks, made by going the rounds of the town and inviting subscriptions from all citizens ( Av ii.39.4 ff. describes this); chandakāni Av i.269.9 ; otherwise only chandaka-bhikṣaṇa ( nt. ) in same mg. , MSV i.61.19 ; ii.77.15 ; Av i.257.8, 11 ; 313.9 ; 314.2, 4 ; 317.16 ; ii.39.4 ff. ; in i.264.2 (see Speyerʼs Index ) read chandaka-( ed. chandana)-bhikṣaṇa ( ms. and ed. bhikṣa; but the missing -ṇa is read in line 7 below); ( 2 ) in Av ii.55.3 … indriyair avikalatvasya kuśaladharmachandakasya āścaryādbhuto loke prādurbhāvaḥ, Speyer, Index , renders -chandaka by gathering (of merit); but cf. Pali dhamma-chanda, desire for the Law , opp. to kāmachanda, desire for lusts ; this is certainly the word involved; either chandaka = chanda (ka svārthe), or, perhaps better, read -chandatvasya, which matches the preceding series of nouns in -tva-sya, the appearance in the world of a state of desiring meritorious (or, felicitous ) dharma (Law, or states of being ?) is a prodigious marvel ; ( 3 ) in Mvy 2225 text tīvreṇa chandakaḥ, presumably adj. , desiring (vehemently) ; but v.l. chandena, and so Mironov without v.l. (also Index of Kyoto ed. lists this reference under chanda, not under chandaka); this is prob. the true reading: with vehement desire ( chanda ); ( 4 ) n. of the Bodhisattvaʼs charioteer (in Pali Channa; here rarely Chanda , q.v. ); sometimes even when the meter seems to demand Chanda, Chandaka is written, as in Mv i.154.9 ; this is the regular form in prose and vs ; Mv i.154.5 (prose), 6, 9; 155.14 ; ii.25.12 (prose); 114.5 (prose); 159.12 ff. ; 189.1 ff. ; iii.91.7 ; 262.8 ; LV 94.13 ; 95.10 ; 123.8 ; 210.3 ff. ; 228.17 ff. ; 237.18 ; Divy 391.22 ; sent with Kālodāyin by Śuddhodana as messenger to Buddha after his enlightenment, Mv ii.233.11 ff.
a free-will offering; a general collection
【中】 投票，自願托缽（給僧團）。
(nt, nt, from chanda) contribution; donation; offering voluntary collection; free-will offering; general collection Construction: √chand + a + ka chanda + ka