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bhojana : [nt.] food; meal.

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A.P. Buddhadatta Mahathera, Concise Pali-English and English-Pali Dictionary [available as digital version from Metta Net, Sri Lanka]

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Bhojana (nt.) [fr. bhuñjati] food, meal, nourishment in general J ii.218; iv.103, 173; J i.178; iv.223; Sn 102, 128, 242, 366, 667; Dh 7, 70; Pug 21, 55; Miln 370; Vism 69, 106; Sdhp 52, 388, 407. Some similes with bhojana see J.P.T.S. 1907, 119. -- tika˚ food allowed for a triad (of reasons) Vin ii.196. dub˚ having little or bad food J ii.368; DhA iv.8. paṇīta˚ choice & plentiful meals Vin iv.88. sabhojane kule in the family in which a bhikkhu has received food Vin iv.94. -- bhojane mattaññu(tā) knowing proper measure in eating (& abstr.); eating within bounds, one of the 4 restricttions of moral life S ii.218; Ai.113 sq.; Nd1 483. <-> 5 bhojanāni or meals are given at Vin iv.75, viz. niccabhatta˚, salākabhatta˚, pakkhikaŋ, uposathikaŋ, pāṭipadikaŋ. -- As part of the regulations concerning food, hours of eating etc. in the Sangha there is a distinction ascribed to the Buddha between gaṇabhojanaŋ, parampara -- bhojanaŋ, atirittabhojanaŋ, anatirittabhojanaŋ mentioned at Kvu ii.552; see Vin iv.71, 77. All these ways of taking food are forbidden under ordinary circumstances, but allowed in the case of illness (gilāna -- samaye), when robes are given to the Bhikkhus (cīvarasamaye) and several other occasions, as enumd at Vin iv.74. -- The distinction is made as follows: gaṇabhojanaŋ said when 4 bhikkhus are invited to partake together of one of the five foods; or food prepared as a joint meal Vin iv.74; cp. ii.196; v.128, 135; paramparabhojanaŋ said when a bhikkhu, invited to partake of one of the 5 foods, first takes one and then another Vin iv.78; atirittabhojanaŋ is food left over from that provided for a sick person, or too great a quantity offered on one occasion to bhikkhus (in this case permitted to be eaten) Vin iv.82; anatirittabhojanaŋ is food that is not left over & is accepted & eaten by a bhikkhu without inquiry Vin iv.84.
-- aggadāna gift of the best of food SnA 270. -- atthika in need of food, hungry Pv ii.929. -- pariyantika restricting one's feeding Vism 69. -- vikati at Jv.292 is to be read as bhājana˚ (q. v.).