kahApaRa · masculine, neuter
coin
Kahāpaṇa [doubtful as regards etymology; the (later) Sanskrit kārṣāpaṇa looks like an adaptation of a dialect form] 1. A square copper coin M II 163; A I 250; V 83 f.; Vin II 294; III 238; As 280 (at this passage included under rajataṃ, silver, together with loha-māsaka, dāru-māsaka and jatu-māsaka); S I 82; A I 250; Vin II 294; IV 249; Ja I 478, 483; II 388; Mhv 30, 14. The extant specimens in our museums weigh about 5/6 of a penny, and the purchasing power of a k. in our earliest records seems to have been about a florin. — Frequent numbers as denoting a gift, a remuneration or alms, are 100,000 (Ja II 96); 18 koṭis (Ja I 92); 1,000 (Ja II 277, 431; V 128, 217; Pv-a 153, 161); 700 (Ja III 343); 100 (Dhp-a III 239); 80 (Pv-a 102); 10 or 20 (Dhp-a IV 226); 8 (which is considered, socially, almost the lowest sum Ja IV 138; I 483). A nominal fine of 1 k. = a farthing) Miln 193. — ekaṃ k° pi not a single farthing Ja I 2; similarly eka-kahāpaṇen'eva Vism 312. — Various qualities of a kahāpaṇa are referred to by Buddhaghosa in similes at Vism 437 and 515. Black kahāpaṇas are mentioned at Dhp-a III 254. — See Rh.D, On the Ancient Coins and Measures of Ceylon ; Buddhist India , pages 100-102, figurative 24; Q.K.M. I 239. -gabbha a closet for storing money, a safe Dhp-a IV 104; -vassa a shower of money Dhp 186 (= Dhp-a III 240).
kahāpaṇa (= Pali id. , for Skt. kārṣāpaṇa, a coin), only in °ṇa-māṃsika, nt. , or °kā, f. , or °kaṃ, adv. (so read for Senart ʼs text °māsikaṃ, see esp. the ms. reading at iii.260.14 ), cutting from the body pieces of flesh the size of a small coin , a form of torture, called in Pali kahāpaṇaka: Mv iii.258.18 (kāmaṃ) khalu me śākyā kāyaṃ tīkṣṇena śastreṇa kahāpaṇa-māṃsikaṃ (°kāṃ?) pi chindetsuḥ; in Pali lists of tortures, e.g. MN i.87.16 , kahāpaṇakaṃ [Page175-a] is regularly preceded by balisa-maṃsikaṃ (baḷ°), see s.v. biliśa- ; in Mv iii.260.14 , verse version of the same passage, Senart reads kahāpaṇa-, but the single ms. obviously read kārṣāpaṇa-māṃsikaṃ (°kāṃ?), i.e. the Sktized form; see this, and kārṣāpaṇa-chedikam , another expression for the same.
a certain coin (made of various metals); money
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(masc, masc) silver coin coin whose value is about a half-crown [lit.] karsa-weight