Pāli Dictionary

īsa

īsrootasuffix

via inflected form īsāna · genitive plural

Part of speech

noun · masculine

Root

īs3具力；主宰

Synonyms

rāja, rājā, vasī, bhattar, pati, adhipati, issara, inda,

general

  • 主；统治者；主人

  • a lord; ruler; master

Encyclopedia

Īsāna
Person

  • 婆罗门与因陀罗、缚楼那、梵天并列祈请的一位天神，被认为是楼陀罗神的古老化身，在佛教宇宙观中位居帝释之下。

  • A chief deva invoked by brahmins alongside Indra, Varuṇa, and Brahmā, later identified with an older form of the god Rudra and ranked below Sakka in Buddhist cosmology.

SN 11.3

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