Pāli Dictionary

bahuputta1

bahuprefixputtaroot

Part of speech

noun · masculine

cosmology

  • 婆呼富多，毗舍離城附近一處樹廟（多枝榕樹）之名，人們於此祈求得子

  • 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，兒女眾多的

  • having many children; having many sons

Encyclopedia

Bahuputta
Place

  • 毘舍離城北的一處前佛教聖地，原是一棵枝葉繁茂的榕樹，人們向樹神祈求得子，後佛陀亦曾到訪此地。

  • 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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