vi + kir + a
scatter
scatters; spreads; sprinkles
Vikirati [vi + kirati] to scatter about, sprinkle, spread, mix up (transitive and intransitive) M I 127; S III 190 (in simile of playing children: paṃsvāgārakāni hatthehi ca pādehi ca vikiranti [mix up] vidhamanti [fall about] viddhaṃsenti [tumble over] vikīḷanikaṃ karonti, describing the scrambling and crowding about. In quite a different interpretation applied to Arahantship: see under vikiraṇa, as also in the same chapter (S III 190 §11 f. ) in phrase rūpaṃ vikirati vidhamati etc. where it is meant in transative sense of "destroy"; thus vi° in the same verb in meaning (vi° 1 and 2); S IV 41 (kāyo vikiri [came to pieces] seyyathāpi bhusa-muṭṭhi); Ja I 226; Pv II 3 8 (vikiri, v.l. for okiri); Miln 101, 237 (loka-dhātu vikireyya, would fall to pieces; combined with vidhameyya and viddhaṃseyya "drop and tumble," denoting total confusion and destruction. Similarly on page 250 = 337 "vāri pokkhara-patte vikirati vidhamati viddhaṃsati": the water scatters, drops and falls off; applied figuratively to bad qualities at same passage); Pj II 172. — passive vikiriyyati and vikirīyati may be {549} taken either to vikirati or vikaroti (cf. kiriyati); As 19 (suttena saṅgahitāni pupphāni na vikirīyanti na viddhaṃsiyanti: get scattered and fall off); present participle vikirīyamāna Pv-a 271 (with sprawling or confused limbs); imperative vikiriyyatu Ja III 368. — past participle vikiṇṇa.
(vi + kir + a), 分散,散佈,灑。【過】 vikiri。【現分】 ~ranta, vikiramāna。【獨】 ~ritvā。
(pr, pr) scatters; spreads; disperses; strews scatters, spreads, sprinkles Construction: vi + kira + ti