Pāli Dictionary

bahuputta1

bahuprefixputtaroot

Part of speech

noun · masculine

cosmology

  • Bahuputta, name of a shrine (a many-branched banyan tree) near Vesāli, where people prayed for sons

  • DN 16

    tatiyam'pi kho bhagavā āyasmantaṃ ānandaṃ āmantesi, ramaṇīyā, ānanda, vesālī, ramaṇīyaṃ udenaṃ cetiyaṃ, ramaṇīyaṃ gotamakaṃ cetiyaṃ, ramaṇīyaṃ satt'ambaṃ cetiyaṃ, ramaṇīyaṃ bahuputtaṃ cetiyaṃ, ramaṇīyaṃ sāran'dadaṃ cetiyaṃ, ramaṇīyaṃ cāpālaṃ cetiyaṃ.

bahuputta2

bahuprefixputtaroot

Part of speech

adjective

general

  • having many children; having many sons

Encyclopedia

Bahuputta
Place

  • A pre-Buddhist shrine north of Vesāli, originally a many-branched banyan tree where people prayed to its resident deity for sons, and later a site visited by the Buddha.

DN 16

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