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TIL

Pali Dictionary

by U Kyaw Tun, et. al.

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kā-la-da

kāla-dāna

{ka-la. da-na.} 
Ref: kāla

UMK-USL p15
n. timely charity expressed through five modes:
1. āgantuka-dāna -- charitable acts toward guests
2. gamika-dāna -- acts of charity toward intinerants
3. gilāna-dāna -- charity for the ill or injured
4. dubbhikha-dāna -- charity for the famine striken
5. sīlavantana-vaphala-dāna -- partaking of the first crops from one's fields or orchards only after offering the first crops to virtuous persons.

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