Pāli Dictionary
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Ajjuna
PersonA 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
PersonA Pacceka Buddha of ninety-one world-cycles ago who once received a ripe jackfruit from a donor later reborn as the elder Panasaphaladāyaka.
Ajjuna3
PersonA Pacceka Buddha of ninety-four world-cycles ago who received an ajela-fruit from a donor later reborn as the elder Ajelaphaladāyaka.
Ajjuna4
PersonThe seventh son of Devagabbhā and Upasāgara, one of the Andhakaveṇhu brothers.
Ajjuna5
PersonA 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
PersonThe 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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