Ragacarita, 岵ٲ, Raga-carita, Rāgacaritā: 5 definitions
Introduction:
Ragacarita means something in Buddhism, Pali. 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.
Alternative spellings of this word include Ragacharita.
In Buddhism
Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
: Pali Kanon: Manual of Buddhist Terms and Doctrinesthe 'greedy-natured'; s. carita.
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 Dictionary岵ٲ : (adj.) of lustful behaviour.
: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary岵ٲ refers to: one whose habit is passion, of passionate behaviour Miln. 92; Vism. 105 sq. (in det.), 114 (+dosa°, moha°), 193; KhA 54 (colour of the blood of his heart, cp. Vism. 409)
Note: 岵ٲ is a Pali compound consisting of the words 岵 and carita.
[Pali to Burmese]
: Sutta: Tipiṭaka Pāḷi-Myanmar Dictionary (တိပိဋက-ပါဠိမြန်မ� အဘိဓာန�)1) 岵ٲ�
(Burmese text): ရာ�-ရာဂစရိုက�-ပြေ�-မျာ�-လွန်က�-အားကြီ�-သော၊ များသေ�-ရာ�-ရာဂစရိုက�-ရှိသော၊ သူ။ (က) ရာဂ၏ အစွမ်းဖြင့� အာရုံ၌ ကျက်စားခြင်းရှိသော၊ သူ။ (�) ရာဂနှင့� တကွဖြစ်သည့� အလေ့အကျင့်ရှိသော၊ သူ။ (�) ရာဂသည� ဖြစ်စေအပ်သော၊ သူ။ (�) ရာဂဟူသေ� ပင်ကိုယ်သဘောရှိသော၊ သူ။မူရင်းကြည့်ပါ။
(Auto-Translation): Raga - Raga Sanyukta - Speech - Excessively powerful - He who has many - Raga - Raga Sanyukta; (a) He who has an influence on awareness due to Raga; (b) He who has habits that arise with Raga; (c) He who is born from Raga; (d) He who has an intrinsic nature called Raga.
2) 岵caritā�
(Burmese text): ရာဂဟူသေ� ပင်ကိုယ်သဘော၊ ရာဂစရိုက်။
(Auto-Translation): The essence of desire is attachment.

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.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Raga, Carita.
Starts with: Ragacaritasatta.
Full-text: Ragacaritasatta, Carita, Greedy Natured, Moha Carita, Sammaparibbajaniya Sutta, Puggala.
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