pilotika 1 · pilotika 2
pilotika ( m. or nt. , in mg. 2 perhaps °kā f. ; = Pali °kā, once °ka m. or nt. , Jāt. iv.365.19 ; MIndic for plotika, ploti , qq.v. for discussion), ( 1 ) piece of cloth, rag : karpāsikaṃ paṭa-pilotikam ādāya (in becoming a monk) Mv iii.50.15 ; paṭa-pilotika-saṃghāṭī(ṃ) Mv iii.53.14, 16 ; 54.1 ff. ; ( 2 ) (gender uncertain), when modified by chinna, perh. connecting cord or thread, binding cord, bond (presumably of karman, see s.v. ploti-ka): chinnā ( mss. °ne) pilotikā Mv iii.63.10 , cut are the cords (of dharmavinaya, by the Buddha); ( Bhvr. ) daṇḍachinna-pilotiko (said of dharmavinayo) Mv iii.412.11 , whose cords are cut (as) with a stick (? no other use of daṇḍa in this connexion has been noted; note that chinna-pilotika in Pali is an ep. of dhamma, and chinna- plotika , see the latter, in BHS of dharma; here also of dharmavinaya). See also pailottaka (?), °ttika .
<b> <c c="#a00149">Pilotika</c> </b> <br>A wanderer. Jāṇussoṇi once met him returning from Jetavana, where he had gone early to wait on the Buddha. Pilotika, on being questioned, spoke very highly of the Buddha. It is this conversation which, on its being repeated by Jāṇussoṇi to the Buddha, led to the preaching of the Cullahatthipadopama Sutta. <c c="#3b6bd3">MN.i.175ff.</c> <br> <br> </deftext>
(masc, masc, from pilota) name of a wandering ascetic [lit.] old rags Construction: pilota + ikā + a pilotikā + a
(adj, adj, in comps, from pilotikā) with old cloth; having rags rag, old clothe Construction: pilota + ikā + a pilotikā + a