Cakkavala, Cakkavāḷa, Cakkavāla: 6 definitions
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Cakkavala means something in Buddhism, Pali, Jainism, Prakrit. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
In Buddhism
Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper NamesThe name given to a whole world system, there being countless such systems.
Each Cakkavala is twelve hundred and three thousand, four hundred and fifty yojanas in extent and consists of the earth, two hundred and four thousand nahutas of yojanas in volume, surrounded by a region of water four hundred and eight thousand nahutas of yojanas in volume. This rests on air, the thickness of which is nine hundred and sixty thousand nahutas of yojanas. In the centre of the Cakkavala is Mount Sineru, one hundred and sixty eight yojanas in height, half of which is immersed in the ocean.
Around Sineru are seven mountain ranges, Yugandhara, Isadhara, Karavika, Sudassana, Nemindhara, Vinataka and Assakanna. The mountains are inhabited by the Regent Gods (Maharajas) and their followers, the Yakkhas.
Within the Cakkavala is the Himava mountain, one hundred leagues high, with eighty four thousand peaks. Surrounding the whole Cakkavala is the Cakkavalasila. Belonging to each Cakkavala is a moon, forty nine leagues in diameter, a sun of fifty leagues, the Tavatimsabhavana, the Asurabhavana, the Avicimahaniraya and the four mahadipas - Jambudipa, Aparagoyana, Pubbavideha and Uttarakuru, each mahadipa surrounded by five hundred minor dipas.
Between the Cakkavalas exist the Lokantarika niraya (SA.ii.442f.; DhsA.297f).
In each Cakkavala are four Regent Gods (Cattaro Maharaja) (AA.i.439).
A sun can illuminate only one Cakkavala; the rays of light from the Buddhas body can illuminate all the Cakkavalas (AA.i.440).
Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionarycakkavāḷa : (m.; nt.) a world-circle; a solar system.
: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English DictionaryCakkavāḷa, (m. & nt.) a circle, a sphere, esp. a mythical range of mountains supposed to encircle the world; pl. worlds or spheres J. I, 53, 203; VI, 330; Vism. 205 (its extent), 207, 367, 421; DhsA. 297; DhA 11. 15; III, 498; in the trope “cakkavāḷa� atisambādha� brahmaloko atinīco� (=the whole world cannot hold it) to express immensity DhA. I, 310; VvA. 68.
: Sutta: Pali Word Grammar from Pali Myanmar Dictionary1) cakkavāḷa (စက္ကဝါ�) [(pu) (ပ�)]�
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2) cakkavāḷa (စက္ကဝါ�) [(na) (�)]�
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[စက္ကဝါ�+ဏ။ သာရတ္ထ၊ ၁။ ၂၅၂။ ဝိသုဒ္ဓိ၊ ဋီ၊ ၁။ ၂၄�-ကြည့်။ စက္က+အာဝါဋ။ အာကိ� ရဿပြု၊ �-ကို�-ပြု။ တတ္ထစက္ကဝါဠန္တ� စက္ကာဝါဋန္တ� ဝတ္တဗ္ဗ� စက္ကဝါဠန္တ� ဝေါဟာရံဂတံ။ ယသ္မ� ရထစက္က� ဝိ� သမဝဋ္ဋ� ကူပ� ဝိ� အာဝါဋာကာရံ။ ဋကာရဉ္� ဠကာရ� ကတံ။ တသ္မ� စက္ကဝါဠန္တ� ဝုစ္စတိ။ ဝိနာလင်္ကာရဋီ။ ၅၆။]
3) cakkavāḷa (စက္ကဝါ�) [(pu) (ပ�)]�
[cakka+vāḍa+a．ḍa-ḷa-pru．cakkamiva vāḍati veṭhayati．vi,pi,�2�34va．thomanimi�(cakravāḍa (la) sa�)]
[စက္က+ဝါ�+အ။ �-ကို�-ပြု။ စက္ကမိ� ဝါဍတ� ဝေဌယတိ။ ဝိ၊ ပိ၊ ဓာန်။ ၂။ ၃၄ဝ။ ထောမနိမိလည်းကြည့်။ (စကြဝါ� (�) သ�)]
Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.
Prakrit-English dictionary
: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionaryCakkavāla (चक्कवा�) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: 䲹.
Prakrit is an ancient language closely associated with both Pali and Sanskrit. Jain literature is often composed in this language or sub-dialects, such as the Agamas and their commentaries which are written in Ardhamagadhi and Maharashtri Prakrit. The earliest extant texts can be dated to as early as the 4th century BCE although core portions might be older.
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Partial matches: A, Vada, Na, Vata, Sakka.
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