neuter ~ā, .f · kiriya 1 · kiriya 3
Kiriya, Kiriyā and Kriyā [abstract from karoti] 1. (noun) (a) (—°) action, performance, deed; the doing = fulfilment; cf. °karaṇa, anta°, making an end of, putting a stop to (dukkhassa) S III 149; IV 93; Snp 454, 725; — kāla° "fulfilment of one's time" i.e. death S III 122; Pv I 10 12 ; Snp 694; Pp 17; kusala° performance of good actions S I 101; V 456; dāna° the bestowing of gifts Pv-a 123; pāpa° commission of sin Pp 19 = 23; puñña° the performance of good works S I 87 = 89 = A III 48; a° Pv-a 54 maṅgala° celebration of a festival Pv-a 86; massu-kiriyā the dressing of the beard Ja III 314 (cf. m.-karaṇa and kappanā); sacchi k. realization, see sub voce — akiriyā the non-performance of, omission, abstaining from (a° akaraṇa = veramaṇī) Ja III 530; Vibh 285. (b) an act in a special sense = promise, vow, dedication, intention, pledge: Pv-a 18; justice: Miln 171; kiriyaṃ bhindati to break one's vow Miln 206. (c) philosophically: action ineffective as to result, non-causative, an action which ends in itself (Mrs. Rh.D. in BMPE ci), inoperative (see Cpd. 19). In this sense it is grouped with kamma. (cf. for relation to kamma: kiriyā = German sache: ursache). Thus is the theory of Makkhali: n'atthi kammaṃ, n'atthi kiriyaṃ n'atthi viriyan ti = there is no karma, no after-effect and no vigour in this world A I 286 (different at D I 53); n'atthi kiriyā it does not matter M I 405. 2. (adjective) (a) making no difference, indefinite; of no result, as definition of avyākatā {216} dhammā Vibh 106, 182 = 302 = Dhs 566 and 989 (manodhātu kiriyā n'eva kusalā nākusalā na ca kamma-vipākā: indifferent, neither good nor bad and having no fruit of kamma), same of jhāna Vibh 268 = 281; As 388. (b) indecisive, in akiriyaṃ vyākaroti to give an indecisive answer, to reply evasively D I 53 -pada (technical term in grammar) the verb (i.e. that which supplies the action) Vv-a 315; -vāda (adjective) promulgating the (view of a) consequence of action, believing in merit and demerit, usually combined with kammavāda (q.v.) also °vādin: D I 115 (of Gotama) A I 62; Vin I 71; a° denying the difference between merit and demerit A IV 174 = Vin I 234; 242, III 2; A IV 180 f.; S III 73. (+ n'atthikavāda); -vādin adjective to preceding A I 62; -hetu being a cause of discrimination Dhs 1424 f.
doing; performance; action, activity; what one does or has done; way of acting; morally significant activity which produces effects
【中】 kriyā, kiriyā,【陰】 行動，行爲，表現。~vāda,【陽】 信念行動是有結果的。~vādī,【陽】 傳播 kiriyavāda 主義者。
(nt, nt, in comps, from karoti) making; doing; performing action, deed, performance Construction: √kar > kir + iya
(nt, nt) (gram) verb, predicate Construction: √kar > kir + iya
(nt, nt) action of an arahant, not kamma Construction: √kar > kir + iya