piRqapAta · masculine
collection of alms
piṇḍapāta , m. (see pāta ), or °pātra (the latter very often, esp. in mss. , tho editors often em. , cf. Speyer Av i.13 note 1 ; Index to Divy suggests two different words, ‘often confused’, but note that even in the cliché list of [Page345-a] pariskāra , q.v. , piṇḍapāta occurs as always in Pali , beside °pātra, the latter e.g. Suv 112.9 ; Śikṣ 41.18 ; Sukh 27.1 ; LV 2.22 ; also mss. at Av i.13.4 et alibi , Speyer, note ad loc. ; it seems that both forms mean simply alms-food ( -attainment , put into a monkʼs bowl), as is quite obvious in Pali , see Childers and PTSD , and in some BHS passages; the BHS °pātra was doubtless due to popular etym. , association with pātra = Pali patta, bowl ; tho secondary and unoriginal it occurs so often that it seems probably to have been used in BHS tradition, by the side of °pāta), food thrown into a monkʼs almsbowl ; see also (besides s.v. pariṣkāra ) s.v. paścādbhakta : °pāta Mvy 2374 ; 8571 ; 8581 ; 8591 ; 8671 ; Divy 188.24 ; 236.28 ; 262.23 ; 553.3, 10 ; 573.10 ; Jm 19.25 ; RP 29.13 ; Śikṣ 128.2, 8 ; 215.7 ; Prāt 500.4 ff. (so regularly in Prāt ); Bhīk 23a.1 ; °pāta-cārika, living by alms-begging , RP 57.10 (= °pātika ), °pātra, besides cases in cpds. cited above, Śikṣ 312.14 ; v.l. in Mvy 8571, 8581, 8591 , above; ekapiṇḍapātreṇa Mv iii.225.10, 13, 21 , with nothing but (a bowl of) almsfood . —See Rahder, Hobogirin 158 .
a collection of alms
(masc, masc, comp) alms food collection of alms [lit.] lump dropping Construction: piṇḍa + pāta