cakkaṁ

neuter

I. Crude meaning

1. a wheel (of a carriage) Dhp.1; Pv-a.65 (ratha˚); Mil.27.
2. a discus used as a missile weapon Ja.i.74; Pgdp.36; cp khura˚ a razor as an instr. of torture.
3. a disc, a circle: heṭṭhāpādatalesu cakkāni jātāni, forming the 2^nd characteristic mark of a Mahāpurisa DN.ii.17 DN.iii.143; DN.iii.149
   ■ Ja.ii.331; Mil.51.
4. an array of troops (under tayo vyūhā: paduma˚ cakka˚ sakaṭa˚ Ja.ii.404 = Ja.iv.343

II. Applied meaning

1. (a wheel as component part of a carriage, or one of a duad or tetrad =) collection, set, part; succession; sphere region, cycle Vin.i.330 (cp. vin. texts ii.281); Vin.iii.96 iriyāpatha˚ the 4 ways of behaviour, the various positions (standing, walking, sitting, lying down) DN-a.i.249 Sdhp.604. sā˚, miga˚ the sphere or region of dogs wild animals Mil.178; cakkena (instr.) in succession Pv-a iii. cakkaṃ kātabbaṃ, or bandhitabbaṃ freq. in Yam. and Paṭṭh, “The cycle of formulated words is to be here repeated.”
2. (like the four wheels constituting the moving power of a carriage =) a vehicle, instrument, means & ways; attribute, quality state, condition, esp. good condition (fit instrumentality) catucakka an instr. of four, a lucky tetrad, a fourwheeler of the body as expressing itself in the four kinds of deportment, iriyāpathas AN.ii.32; SN.i.16, SN.i.63 (catucakkaṃ). In this sense generalized as a happy state consisting of “4 blessings”: paṭirūpadesa-vāsa, sappurisûpassaya atta-sammāpaṇidhi, pubbe-kata-puññatā AN.ii.32; Ja.v.114; mentioned at Pts.i.84. Cp. also Snp.554 sq.; Snp.684. Esp. pronounced in the two phrases dhamma-cakka (the wheel of the Doctrine, i.e. the symbol of conquering efficacy, or happiness implicated in the D.) and brahma-c˚ the best wheel, the supreme instrument, the noblest quality. Both with pavatteti to start & kcep up (like starting & guiding a carriage), to set rolling, to originate, to make universally known.; dhamma˚; e.g. SN.i.191; AN.i.23, AN.i.101; AN.ii.34, AN.ii.120 AN.iii.151; AN.iv.313; Snp.556 sq.; Snp.693; Ja.iii.412; Pts.ii.159 sq.; Pv-a.67 (see dhamma). brahma˚; MN.i.71; SN.ii.27; AN.ii.9, AN.ii.24; AN.iii.9, AN.iii.417; AN.v.33; Vb.317 sq.; Vb.344 (see brahma). Cp. cakkavattin (below)
   ■ Cp. vi˚.

-chinna (udaka) (water of a well) the wheel of which is broken Ud.83; -

Attestations

• cakkaṁ Sutta Nipata 3.7 (snp3.7:19.4)
• Cakkaṁ Sutta Nipata 3.7 (snp3.7:19.5)
• cakkaṁ Sutta Nipata 3.7 (snp3.7:20.4)
• cakkaṁ Sutta Nipata 3.7 (snp3.7:22.1)
• cakkaṁ Digha Nikaya 16 (dn16:2.16.1)
• cakkaṁ Digha Nikaya 16 (dn16:2.16.3)

6 of 8 attestations shown.