Kathalla, Kaṭhalla: 3 definitions

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Kaṭhalla (कठल्ल).—Gravel.

Derivable forms: kaṭhallaḥ (कठल्लः).

See also (synonyms): kaṭhalya.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Kaṭhalla (कठल्ल) or Kaṭhala or Kaṭhalya or Kaḍhalya.—m. (in Pali only kaṭhala; not in Sanskrit or Prakrit), gravel, regularly associated with śarkara, sand or pabbles; kaṭhala noted only Divyāvadāna 45.10 and Avadāna-śataka i.64.3 (v.l. °lla); kaḍhalya only Lalitavistara 39.22 (with all mss.), also v.l. Lalitavistara 276.21; kaṭhaṇṇa erroneously printed for kaṭhalla (Ārya-)Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa 37.5; 525.20; kaṭhalya Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 144.9; Divyāvadāna 155.24; Lalitavistara 301.10; Mahāvastu iii.69.11; Avadāna-śataka i.139.12; Karmavibhaṅga (and Karmavibhaṅgopadeśa) 79.4; kaṭhalla in the rest below; masc. wherever used as noun with generically distinctive forms, Mahāvyutpatti 5304 °llaḥ = Tibetan gyo mo, gravel; Mahāvastu i.308.2 aśuci-pāṣāṇa- śarkara-kaṭhallā bhūmiṃ praviśanti; (Ārya-)Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa 525.20 kaṭhal- laḥ (text °ṇṇaḥ) śarkarāṅgāraḥ; other substantival oc- currences, Laṅkāvatāra-sūtra 268.3 tṛṇa-kāṣṭha-kaṭhalleṣu yathā māyā virājate (Suzuki translation(s) bricks, which is another meaning of Tibetan gyo mo but surely inappropriate here); Mahāvastu i.15.10 macchā kaṭhalla-gatā (mss. kabhalla°) yathā, like fish on gravel; Karmavibhaṅga (and Karmavibhaṅgopadeśa) 79.4 (pṛthivyāṃ) śarkara-kaṭhalyādīni… prādurbhavanti; usually in adj. cpds., especially apagata- pāṣāṇa-śarkara- (or °sark°) -kaṭh° Mahāvastu iii.79.18; 141.16; 255.9; Divyāvadāna 45.10; 155.23—24; 441.12—13; 460.16; Avadāna-śataka i.64.3; 76.2; 97.3—4; 107.10; 139.11—12; 144.11; Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 144.9; apagata-śarkara- (°sark°)-kaṭh° Mahāvastu iii.69.11; 266.9; Lalitavistara 276.21; apagata-pāṣāṇa-kaṭh° (printed kaṭhaṇṇa)-bhas- māṅgāra- (etc.) (Ārya-)Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa 37.5; utsanna-śarkarākaṭh° Gaṇḍavyūha 328.25; ākīrṇa-śarkara-(°sark°) -kaṭh° Lalitavistara 301.10; Gaṇḍavyūha 166.18—19; -śarkara-kaṭhallākīrṇāyāṃ (…dharaṇyāṃ) Gaṇḍavyūha 226.6.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Kaṭhalla (कठल्ल):—[from kaṭh] n. idem, [ib.]

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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