Samudda
Samudda,[cp.Vedic samudra,fr.saṁ+udra,water] a (large) quantity of water,e.g.the Gaṅges; the sea,the ocean D.I,222; M.I,493; A.I,243; II,48 sq.; III,240; D.III,196,198; S.I,6,32,67; J.I,230; IV,167,172; Dh.127; Nd1 353; SnA 30; PvA.47,104,133,271; explained by adding sāgara,S.II,32; four oceans S.II,180,187; ThA.111.Often characterized as mahā° the great ocean,e.g.Vin.II,237; A.I,227; II,55; III,52; IV,101; SnA 371; DhA.III,44.Eight qualities:A.IV,198,206; popular etymology Miln.85 sq.(viz.“yattakaṁ udakaṁ tattakaṁ loṇaṁ,” and vice versa); the eye etc.(the senses),an ocean which engulfs all beings S.IV,157 (samudda=mahā udakarāsi).-- Cp.sāmuddika.
--akkhāyikā (f.) tales about the origin of the sea,cosmogony Vin.I,188; M.I,513 sq.; D.I,8; DA.I,91.--ṭṭhaka situated in the ocean J.VI,158.--vīci a wave of the ocean Vism.63.(Page 688)