भिक्षित भिक्षुक

भिक्षु

भिक्षु [भिक्ष्-उन्]
1 A beggar, mendicant in general; भिक्षां च भि- क्षवे दद्यात् Ms. 3. 94.
2 A religious mendicant, a Brāhmaṇa in the fourth order of his religious life (when he quits his house and family and lives only on alms), a Saṃ- nyāsin.
3 The fourth order or stage in the religious life of a Brāhmaṇa (संन्यास).
4 A Buddhist mendicant.
−Comp.
−चर्या begging, a mendicant's life.
−संघः a society of Buddhist mendicants.
−संघाती old or tattered clothes (ची- वर).
−सूत्रं a collection of rules for mendicants.

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