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Searching Old Khmer for "śil" (as ""(?:[^"]*(?:-| ))*()*śil\d?(?:(?:-| )[^"]*)*"")
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śīla ~ śila ~ śil /siːl/
A3875
†[Mod. Khmer សីល sīl /sɤl ~ sɤyˈlaʔ/;1 Sanskrit śīla `morality, piety, virtue, moral conduct; moral precept', < √śīl `to practice, exercise, cultivate'].
definitions
1 n. Moral precept(s) or principle(s).
2 n. Moral conduct: morality, virtue.
distinguish: śilā
references
śil: K.413B:12 (A.D. 1361, RS I, № IV:94, JSS, 61.1:133, BEFEO, LXV:343);2
śila: K.444A:26 (A.D. 974, C II:62); K.868A:16 (A.D. 974, C VI:170); K.175S:1 (A.D. 979/87, C VI:173); K.397:8 (A.D. 1109, RS III, № 61:131); K.413A:26, B:39, 44 (A.D. 1361, RS I, № IV:91);
śīla: K.91B:19 (A.D. 1078-1177, C II:126).
citations
... śrī kavīśvarapaṇḍita ʼji mātṛpākṣa yeṅ mān śīla pañcarātra ghṛ[t]āhāra jā guru tapovana pvan ʼanle ... (K.91B:18-9), `... Śrī Kavīśvarapaṇḍita, our maternal ancestor, observed the precepts of the Pañcarātra order, subsisted on clarified butter, [and] served as spiritual preceptor of four tapovana ... '.
notes
1 See Headley, 1294a.
2 BEFEO, XVII.2:11 reads çilā.