A Pali term for a way of expressing or naming something. Its sense in the Cullavagga phrase sakaya niruttiya is disputed: it may mean each learner's own dialect, or the Buddha's own idiom, and scholars remain divided.

Where this term appears

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  The phrase is sakaya niruttiya , and the weight falls on nirutti , a way of expressing or naming something.

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