parikamma: 'preparatory-moment': s. javana.

Buddhist Dictionary, Manual of Buddhist Terms and Doctrines, by NYANATILOKA MAHATHERA

Parikamma (nt.) [pari+kamma] "doing round," i. e. doing up, viz 1. arrangement, getting up, preparation Vin ii.106 (˚ŋ kārāpeti), 117 (geruka˚ plastering with red chalk) 151 (id.). parikammaŋ karoti to make (the necessary) preparation, to set to work Vism 395 and passim (with ref. to iddhi). Usually in formparikammakata arranged, prepared Vin ii.175 (bhūmi), as -- ˚ "with," viz. geruka˚ plastered with red chalk Vin i.48; ii.209; lākhā˚ J iii.183; iv.256; su˚beautifully arranged or prepared, fitful, well worked Miln 62 (dāru), 282 (maṇiratana); VvA 188. In special sense used with ref. to jhāna, as kasiṇa˚processes whereby jhāna is introduced, preparations for meditation J i.141; iv.306; v.162, 193; DhsA 168; cp. Cpd. 54; DhA i.105. -- 2. service, attention, attending Vin i.47; ii.106, 220; S i.76; Th 2, 376 (=veyyāvacca ThA 253); Pug 56; DhA i.96, 333, chiefly by way of administering ointments etc. to a person, cp. J v.89; DhA i.250. sarīra˚ attending the body DA i.45, 186; SnA 52.
   -- kāraka one who ministers to or looks after a person, attendant; one who makes preparations Th 2, 411 (f. -- ikā=paricārikā ThA 267); J i.232.

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