Pāli Dictionary

Jambuka2

Person

Un perroquet, le Bodhisatta dans une vie antérieure, qui, en tant que fils adoptif du roi Brahmadatta de Bārāṇasī, lui enseigna les cinq sortes de pouvoir et fut nommé commandant en chef

A parrot, an incarnation of the Bodhisatta, adopted as his son by Brahmadatta, king of Bārāṇasī. He taught the king on the fivefold power — of limbs, of wealth, of counsel, of caste and of wisdom — the last being the best. The king thereupon appointed him commander-in-chief. J.v.111, 120, 125.

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