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Kaṃsa [cf. Sanskrit kaṃsa; of uncertain etymology, perhaps of Babylonian origin, cf. hirañña 1. bronze Miln 2; magnified by late commentators occasionally into silver or gold. Thus Ja VI 504 (silver) and Ja I 338; IV 107; VI 509 (gold), considered more suitable to a fairy king. 2. a bronze gong Dhp 134 (Dhp-a III 58). 3. a bronze dish Ja I 336; āpānīya° a bronze drinking cup, goblet M. I 316. 4. a "bronze," i.e. a bronze coin worth 4 kahāpaṇas Vin IV 255, 256. See RhD., Coins and Measures §§12, 22. — "Golden bronze" in a fairy tale at Vv 5 4 is explained by Dhammapāla Vv-a 36 as "bells." — It is doubtful whether brass was known in the Ganges valley when the earlier books were composed; but kaṃsa may have meant metal as opposed to earthenware. See the compounds -upadahāraṇa (noun a.) metal milk-pail (?) in phrase: dhenusahassāni dukūla-sandanāni (?) kaṃsūpadhāraṇāni D II 192; A IV 393; Ja VI 503 (explained at 504). Kern ( Toev. page 142) proposes correction to kaṃsūpadohana (= Sanskrit kāṃsyopodohana), i.e. giving milk to the extent of a metal pailful; -kaṇṭaka metal thorns, bits of sharp metal, nails Ja V 102 (cf. sakaṇṭaka) -kūta cheating with false or spurious metal D I 5 (= Sv I 79: selling brass plates for gold ones); -tāla bronze gong Dhp-a I 389; As 319 (°tāḷa); Vv-a 161 or cymbals Ja VI 277. 411; -thāla metal dish, as distinguished from earthenware D I 74 (in simile of dakkho nahāpako = A III 25) cf. Sv I 217; Vism 283 (in simile); Dhp-a III 57 (a gong); Sv I 217; Dhp-a IV 67 = Ja III 224; reading at Miln 62 should be °tāla (see JPTS 1886, 122); -pattharika a dealer in bronze ware Vin II 135; -pāti and °pātī a bronze bowl, usually for food: M I 25; A IV 393; Snp 14; Pv-a 274; -pūra full of metal Ja IV 107; -bhaṇḍa brass ware Vin II 135; -bhājana a bronze vessel Vism 142 (in simile); -maya made of bronze Vin I 190; II 112; -mallaka metal dish, e.g. of gold Ja III 21; -loha bronze Miln 267.
(masc, masc) bronze; metal
(masc, masc) (bronze) plate; bowl plate to eat from
(masc, masc) (bronze) cup; goblet; chalice
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