Paccaya
					
					Paccaya,[fr.paṭi+i,cp.Ved.pratyaya & P.pacceti,paṭicca] lit.resting on,falling back on,foundation; cause,motive etc.See on term as t.t.of philosophy Tikapaṭṭhāna I,foreword; J.P.T.S.1916,21 f.; Cpd.42 sq.& esp.259 sq.-- 1.(lit.) support,requisite,means,stay.Usually with ref.to the 4 necessaries of the bhikkhu’s daily life,viz.cīvara,piṇḍapāta,senāsana,(gilānapaccaya-) bhesajja,i.e.clothing,food as alms,a dwelling-place,medicine:see under cīvara.Sn.339 (paccaya=gilāna-paccaya SnA 342); Miln.336; Mhvs 3,15.-- 2.(appld) reason,cause,ground,motive,means,condition M.I,259 (yaṁ yad eva paccayaṁ paṭicca by whatever cause or by whichever means); S.II,65; Nett 78 sq.; DA.I,125; PvA.104.The fourfold cause (catubbidho paccayo) of rūpa (material form) consists of kamma,citta,utu,āhāra:Vism.600.Var.paccayas discussed at VbhA.166 sq.(twofold,with ref.to paṭisandhi),183 (eightfold),202,205 sq.254 (4).sappaccaya founded,having a reason or cause S.V,213 sq.; A.I,82; Nd2 mūla; Dhs.1084,1437.-- yathā paccayaṁ karoti do as he likes Nd2 p.280=S.III,33.Often coupled with hetu,e.g.at S.IV,68 sq.; A.I.66; IV,151 sq.; D.III,284; Nd2 under mūla; Ps.II,116 sq.,paccaya came to be distinguished from hetu as the genus of which hetu was the typical,chief species.I.e.paccaya became synonymous with our “relation,” understood in a causal sense,hetu meaning condition,causal antecedent,and 23 other relations being added as special modes of causality.Later still these 24 were held reducible to 4 Tikp 1 f.(and foreword); Cpd.197.Cp.Paṭṭhāna.-- Abl.paccayā as adv.by means of,through,by reason of,caused by D.I,45 (vedanā °taṇhā etc.,see paṭicca-samuppāda); M.I,261 (jātippaccayā jarāmaraṇaṁ); Pv.I,52 (kamma°); IV,150 (tap°); PvA.147 (kamma°).-- 3.ground for,belief,confidence,trust,reliance J.I,118,169; apara° without relying on anyone else S.III,83,135; A.IV,186,210; PvA.226.
  --ākāra the mode of causes,i.e.the Paṭiccasamuppāda DhsA.2,3; VbhA.130 sq.(cp.Vism.522 sq.).(Page 384)