Kiriya, Kiriyā & Kriyā [abstr. fr. karoti] 1. (n.) -- (a) ( -- ˚) action, performance, deed; the doing=fulfilment; cp. ˚karaṇa, anta˚, making an end of, putting a stop to (dukkhassa) S iii.149; iv.93; Sn 454, 725; -- kāla˚ "fulfilment of one's time" i. e. death S iii.122; Pv i.1012; Sn 694; Pug 17; kusala˚ performance of good actions S i.101; v.456; dāna˚ the bestowing of gifts PvA 123; pāpa˚ commission of sin Pug 19=23; puñña˚ the performance of good works S i.87=89=A iii.48; a˚ PvA 54 mangala˚ celebration of a festival PvA 86; massu -- kiriyā the dressing of the beard J iii.314 (cp. m -- karaṇa and kappanā); sacchi˚ realization, see s. v. -- akiriyā the non -- performance of, omission, abstaining from (a˚ akaraṇa=veramaṇī) J iii.530; Vbh 285. <-> (b) an act in a special sense=promise, vow, dedication, intention, pledge: PvA 18; justice: Miln 171; kiriyaŋ bhindati to break one's vow Miln 206. -- (c) philosophically: action ineffective as to result, non -- causative, an action which ends in itself (Mrs. Rh. D. in Dhs. trsl. xciii.), inoperative (see Cpd. 19). In this sense it is grouped with kamma (cp. for relation kamma: kiriyā= Ger. sache: ursache). Thus is the theory of Makkhali: n'atthi kammaŋ, n'atthi kiriyaŋ n'atthi viriyan ti= there is no karma, no after -- effect and no vigour in this world A i.286 (different at D i.53); n'atthi kiriyā it does not matter M i.405. -- 2. (adj.) (a) making no difference, indefinite; of no result, as def. of avyākatā dhammā Vbh 106, 182=302=Dhs 566 and 989 (manodhātu kiriyā neva kusalā nâkusalā na ca kammavipākā: indifferent, neither good nor bad and having no fruit of kamma), same of jhāna Vbh 268=281; DhsA 388. -- (b) indecisive, in akiriyaŋ vyākaroti to give an indecisive answer, to reply evasively D i.53 and≈
-- pada (ttg.) the verb (i. e. that which supplies the action) VvA 315; -- vāda (adj.) promulgating the (view of a) consequence of action, believing in merit and demerit, usually combd with kammavāda (q. v.) also ˚vādin: D i.115 (of Gotama) A i.62; Vin i.71; a˚<-> denying the difference between merit & demerit A iv.174=Vin i.234; 242, Vin iii.2; A iv.180 sq.; S iii.73. (+natthikavāda); -- vādin adj. to prec. A i.62; -- hetu being a cause of discrimination Dhs 1424 sq.
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