bhāṇaka (Sanskrit; Pāli). One who commits to memory and recites or preaches the scriptures, usually those of the Sūtra Piṭaka. In India, such individuals often preached to lay-people and are thought to have been associated with stūpas and other places of pilgrimage.

A Dictionary of Buddhism, Oxford University Press, 2003, 2004 (which is available in electronic version from answer.com)

Bhāṇaka1 (adj. -- n.) [fr. bhaṇati] speaking; (n.) a reciter, repeater, preacher (of sections of the Scriptures), like Anguttara˚ Vism 74 sq.; Dīgha˚ DA i.15, 131; J i.59; Vism 36, 266; Jātaka˚ etc. Miln 341 sq.; Majjhima˚ Vism 95 (Revatthera), 275, 286, 431; Saŋyutta˚ Vism 313 (Cūḷa -- Sivatthera). Unspecified at SnA 70 (Kalyāṇavihāravāsi -- bhāṇaka -- dahara -- bhikkhu; reading doubtful). -- f. bhāṇikā Vin iv.285 (Thullanandā bahussutā bhāṇikā); also in cpd. mañju -- bhāṇikā sweet -- voiced, uttering sweet words J vi.422.

Pali-English Dictionary, TW Rhys Davids, William Stede,

Bhāṇaka2 [cp. Sk. bhāṇḍaka a small box: Kathāsarits. 24, 163; & see Müller, P.Gr. p. 48] a jar Vin ii.170 (loha˚); iii.90.

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