Pāli Dictionary

aciravatī

approximate

aprefixcirastemvantsuffixīsuffix

Part of speech

noun · feminine

cosmology

  • la rivière Aciravatī; l’un des cinq grands fleuves de l’Inde ancienne

  • the Aciravatī, name of a river; one of the five great rivers of ancient India

  • Ud 5.5

    puna caparaṃ, bhikkhave, yā kāci mahānadiyo, seyyath'idaṃ gaṅgā yamunā aciravatī sarabhū mahī, tā mahāsamuddaṃ patvā jahanti purimāni nāmagottāni, mahāsamuddo'tv'eva saṅkhaṃ gacchanti

  • DN 13

    taṃ kiṃ maññasi, vāseṭṭha, api nu tassa purisassa avhāyanahetu vā āyācanahetu vā patthanahetu vā abhinandanahetu vā aciravatiyā nadiyā pārimaṃ tīraṃ orimaṃ tīraṃ āgaccheyyā'ti? no h'idaṃ, bho gotama.

approximate

Compound structure

analyses: 1

nacīravatī
  1. na

    ne … pas; non; ni … ni (particule négative)

  2. cīra

    fibre d’écorce; vêtement fait d’écorce

  3. vatīvati

    clôture; enceinte

Encyclopedia

2 entries

Aciravati
Place

  • Un canal à Sri Lanka coulant vers l’ouest depuis la Mahāvālukagaṅgā, d’où quatre autres canaux — la Sataruddhā, la Nibbindā, la Dhavalā et la Sīdā — se déversaient vers l’est

  • A canal in Sri Lanka running westward from the Mahāvālukagaṅgā, from which four other canals — the Sataruddhā, Nibbindā, Dhavalā, and Sīdā — flowed eastward.

Aciravatī
Placeapproximate

  • Une rivière de Kosala, l’un des cinq grands fleuves de l’Inde ancienne et l’actuelle Rāpti, qui coulait près de Sāvatthi et fut le cadre du Tevijja Sutta du Bouddha

  • A river of Kosala, one of the five great rivers of ancient India and the modern Rāpti, which flowed past Sāvatthi and was the setting for the Buddha’s Tevijja Sutta.

AN 10.15Ud 5.5

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