Takka. A city in India twelve leagues from Kāvīrapattana. It was the residence of monks. Ras.ii.108.
takka : [m.] thought; reasoning; logic. (nt.), butter-milk.
Takka1 [Sk. tarka doubt; science of logic (lit. "turning & twisting") *treik, cp. Lat. tricae, intricare (to "trick," puzzle), & also Sk. tarku bobbin, spindle, Lat. torqueo (torture, turn)] doubt; a doubtful view (often= diṭṭhi, appl. like sammā˚, micchā -- diṭṭhi), hair -- splitting reasoning, sophistry (=itihītihaŋ Nd2 151). Opp. to takka (=micchā -- sankappo Vbh 86, 356) is dhammatakka right thought (:vuccati sammā -- sankappo Nd2 318; cp. Dhs 7, 298), D i.16 (˚pariyāhata); M i.68 (id.); Sn 209 (˚ŋ pahāya na upeti sankhaŋ) 885 (doubt), 886; Dhs 7, 21, 298 (+vitakka, trsl. as "ratiocination" by Mrs. Rh. D.); Vbh 86, 237 (sammā˚) 356; Vism 189. See also vitakka.
-- āgama the way of (right) thought, the discipline of correct reasoning Dāvs v.22; -- âvacara as neg. atakkâvacarâ in phrase dhammā gambhīrā duddasā a˚ nipuṇā (views, etc.) deep, difficult to know, beyond logic (or sophistry: i. e. not accessible to doubt?), profound Vin i.4=D i.12=S i.136=M i.487. Gogerley trsl. "unattainable by reasoning," Andersen "being beyond the sphere of thought"; -- āsaya room for doubt Sn 972; -- gahaṇa the thicket of doubt or sophistry J i.97; -- vaḍḍhana increasing, furthering doubt or wrong ideas Sn 1084 (see Nd2 269); -- hetu ground for doubt (or reasoning?) A ii.193=Nd2 151.
Takka2 (nt.) [Should it not belong to the same root as takka1?] buttermilk (with 1/4 water), included in the five products from a cow (pañca gorasā) at Vin i.244; made by churning dadhi Miln 173; J i.340; ii.363; DhA ii.68 (takkâdi -- ambila).
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