kāyaṁ

purchase, buying AN.iii.226 (+ vi˚).

-(a)kkaya, buying & selling Pv.i.5#6 (see also Kp.vii.6 and note). -vikkaya (kraya vikraya) buying selling, trade in ˚paṭivirata DN.i.5 = AN.ii.209 = AN.v.205 Pp.58; DN.i.64; SN.v.473; Snp.929; Ja.v.243; Khus.114; Dhp-a.i.78; Pv-a.29 (= Kp-a.212).

fr. kri

group, heap, collection, aggregate, body

Definitions and synonyms

Snp-a.31 gives the foll. synonyms and similes of kāya: kuṭī, guhā (Snp.772), deha, sandeha (Dhp.148 = Thag.20), nāvā (Dhp.369), ratha (SN.iv.292) dhaja, vammīka (MN.i.144), kuṭikā (Thag.1); and at Kp-a.38 the foll. def.: kāye ti sarīre, sarīraṃ hi asucisañcayato kucchitānaṃ vā kesādīnaṃ āyabhūtato kāyo ti vuccati.… It is equivalent to deha: SN.i.27; Pv-a.10; to sarīra Kp-a.38; Pv-a.63, to nikāya (deva˚ DN.iii.264; and cp. formula of jāti: sattānaṃ tamhi tamhi sattanikāye jāti… Cnd.257.

Literal meaning.

1. mahājana-kāya a collection of people, a crowd SN.iv.191; SN.v.170; Vv-a.78
   ■ bala˚ a great crowd Snp.p.105; Dhp-a.i.193, Dhp-a.i.398.
2. group or division: satta kāyā akaṭā, etc. (seven eternal groups or principles) DN.i.56 = MN.i.517 = SN.iii.211 (in Pakudha Kaccāyana’s theory); with reference to groups of sensations or sense-organs, as vedanā-kāya, saññā˚, viññāṇa˚ phassa˚, etc. SN.iii.60, SN.iii.61; DN.iii.243, DN.iii.244; taṇhā DN.iii.244; appl. to hatthi˚, ratha˚, patti˚, groups of elephants, carriages or soldiers SN.i.72

■ A good idea of the extensive meaning of kāya may be gathered from the classification of the 7 kāyas at Ja.ii.91, viz. camma˚ dāru˚, loha˚, ayo˚, vāluka˚, udaka˚, phalaka˚, or “bodies” (great masses, substances) of skin, wood copper, iron, sand, water, and planks
■ Var. other combinations: Asura˚ AN.i.143; DN.iii.7; Ābhassara˚ (“world of radiance”) DN.i.17 = DN.iii.29, DN.iii.84; Deva˚ SN.i.27, SN.i.30; DN.iii.264 (˚nikāya); dibbā kāyā AN.i.143; Tāvatiṃsa DN.iii.15.

Applied meaning

Kāya under the physical aspect is an aggregate of a multiplicity of elements which finally can be reduced to the four “great elements, viz. earth, water, fire, and air (DN.i.55). This “heap,” in the valuation of the Wise (muni), shares with all other objects the qualities of such elements and is therefore regarded as contemptible, as something which one has to get rid of, as a source of impurity. It is subject to time and change, it is built up and kept alive by cravings, and with death it is disintegrated into the elements. But the kamma which determined the appearance of this physical body has naturally been renewed and assumes a new form. II. Kāya under the psychological aspect is the seat of sensation (Dhs §§ 613 16), and represents the fundamental organ of touch which underlies all other sensation. Developed only in later thought Dhs-a. 311 cf. Mrs. Rhys Davids, Bud. Psy Ethics lvi. ff.; Bud. Psy. 143, 185 f.

I. (Physical)

1. Unders