karaka 1 · karaka 2
Karaka [Etymology unknown. The Sanskrit is also karaka, and the medieval koṣas give as meaning, besides drinking vessel, also a coco-nut shell used as such (with which may be compared Latin carīna, nutshell, keel of a boat; and Greek κἇρνα, nut.) It is scarcely possible that this could have been the original meaning. The coconut was not cultivated, perhaps not even known, in Kosala at the date of the rise of Pāli and Buddhism] 1. Water-pot, drinking-vessel (= pānīya-bhājana Pv-a 251). It is one of the seven requisites of a samaṇa Vin II 302. It is called dhammakaraka there, and at II 118, 177. This means "regulation waterpot" as it was provided with a strainer (parissavana) to prevent injury to living things. See also Miln 68; Pv III 2 24 ; Pv-a 185. 2. hail (also karakā) Ja IV 167; Miln 308; Mhv 12, 9. -vassa a shower of hail, hailstorm Ja IV 167; Miln 308; Dhp-a I 360.
karaka , ( 1 ) = prec. , in same cpd. : Divy 37.1—2 ; 341.29 ; Av i.3.5 ; Speyer, Index , takes kara(ka) in this cpd. as = Skt. and Pali karaka, water-pot , but see s.v. kāṭaka , which may be related (in cpd. pātra-k°), and even if not related, seems to disprove Speyer ; ( 2 ) (= AMg. karaga; in Skt. kāraka, not karaka, is used in this sense, as also in Pali ) doer, one who does : LV 340.4 ( vs ) karakavedaka-vītivṛttāḥ (most mss. kāraka, unmetr. ); Dbh.g. 27(53).11 karak'apeta, without a doer ; in view of Dbh 49.6 (prose) kāraka-vedaka-virahita, the short a is prob. m.c. despite the following, all from prose, where to be sure the word is adjectival, making, producing : bodhi-karakair dharmaiḥ Av i.69.12 ; 75.4 etc. ; bodhisattva-karakair dharmaiḥ Av i.86.15 .
【中】 1. 杯子，飲料容器。2. 【陽】 石榴樹。
(nt, nt) drinking vessel
(masc, masc) pomegranate tree