Pāli Dictionary

bahuputta1

bahuprefixputtaroot

Part of speech

noun · masculine

cosmology

  • 婆呼富多，毗舍离城附近一处树庙（多枝榕树）之名，人们于此祈求得子

  • 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

  • 多子的，儿女众多的

  • having many children; having many sons

Encyclopedia

Bahuputta
Place

  • 毘舍离城北的一处前佛教圣地，原是一棵枝叶繁茂的榕树，人们向树神祈求得子，后佛陀亦曾到访此地。

  • 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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