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Definition^[1]

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kumbha : [m.] water-pot.

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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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Kumbha [for etym. s. kūpa and cp. Low Ger. kump or kumme, a round pot] 1. a round jar, waterpot (=kulālabhājana earthenware DhA i.317), frequent in similes, either as illustrating fragility or emptiness and fullness: A i.130, 131=Pug 32; A v.337; S ii.83; Miln 414. As uda˚ waterpot Dh 121; J i.20; Pv i.129. -- 2. one of the frontal globes of an elephant Vin ii.195 (hatthissa); VvA 182 (˚ālankārā ornaments for these).
-- ûpama resembling a jar, of kāya Dh 40 (=DhA i.317); of var. kinds of puggalā A ii.104=Pug 45. -- kāra 1. a potter; enumerated with other occupations and trades at D i.51=Miln 331. Vin iv.7. In similes, generally referring to his skill D i.78=M ii.18; Vism 142, 376; Sn 577; DhA i.39 (˚sālā). rāja˚ the king's potter J i.121. -- 2. a bird (Phasianus gallus? Hardy) VvA 163. -- Cpds.: ˚antevāsin the potter's apprentice D i.78=M ii.18; -- ˚nivesana the dwelling of a potter Vin i.342, 344; S iii.119; ˚pāka the potter's oven S ii.83; A iv.102; ˚ -- putta son of a potter (cp. Dial. i.100), a potter Vin iii.41 sq.; -- kārikā a large earthen vessel (used as a hut to live in, Bdhgh) Vin ii.143, cp. Vin. Texts iii.156; -- ṭṭhānakathā gossip at the well D i.8=D iii.36=A v.128= S v.419, expld. at DAi.90 by udaka -- ṭṭhānakathā, with variant udakatittha -- kathā ti pi vuccati kumbha -- dāsikathā vā; -- thūṇa a sort of drum D i.6 (expl. at DA i.84: caturassara -- ammaṇakatāḷaŋ kumbhasaddan ti pi eke); D iii.183; J v.506 (pāṇissaraŋ+). -- ˚ika one who plays that kind of drum Vin iv.285=302; -- tthenaka of cora, a thief, "who steals by means of a pot" (i. e. lights his candle under a pot (?) Bdhgh on Vin ii.256, cp. Vin. Texts iii.325 "robber burglars") only in simile Vin ii.256=Sii.264=A iv.278; -- dāsī a slave girl who brings the water from the well D i.168; Miln 331; DhA i.401 (udakatitthato k˚ viya ānītā). -- dūhana milking into the pitchers, giving a pail of milk (of gāvo, cows) Sn 309. Cp. kuṇḍi. -- bhāramatta as much as a pot can hold J v.46; -- matta of the size of a pot, in kumbhamattarahassangā mahodarā yakkhā, expln. of kumbhaṇḍā J iii.147.