Pāli Dictionary

ajjuna

Part of speech

noun · masculine

Synonyms


general

  • the arjuna tree (Terminalia arjuna)

Encyclopedia

6 entries

Ajjuna
Person
  • A councillor’s son of Sāvatthi who, dissatisfied after first joining the Nigaṇṭhas, was won over by the Buddha’s Twin Miracle, entered the Order and attained Arahantship.

Ajjuna2
Person
  • A Pacceka Buddha of ninety-one world-cycles ago who once received a ripe jackfruit from a donor later reborn as the elder Panasaphaladāyaka.

Ajjuna3
Person
  • A Pacceka Buddha of ninety-four world-cycles ago who received an ajela-fruit from a donor later reborn as the elder Ajelaphaladāyaka.

Ajjuna4
Person
  • The seventh son of Devagabbhā and Upasāgara, one of the Andhakaveṇhu brothers.

Ajjuna5
Person
  • A mighty archer-king of the Kekakas who angered the sage Gotama and was destroyed despite his strength and his thousand arms; he is identified with the Arjuna of Sanskrit epic.

Ajjuna6
Person
  • The eldest of King Paṇḍu’s five sons, all married to the same wife Kaṇhā, who together renounced her upon discovering her betrayal and retreated to the Himalayas; a former birth of the bird-king Kuṇāla.

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