Pāli Dictionary

brahmadatta

brahmastemdattasuffix

Part of speech

noun · masculine


general

  • 梵授(意為「天神所賜」,為巴利文獻中常見的人名,曾用於多位國王、一位阿羅漢比丘、一位遊行者以及迦葉佛之父)

  • Brahmadatta, ‘given by god’ — a common personal name in Pali literature, borne by several kings, an arahant monk, an ascetic and Kassapa Buddha’s father

  • DN 14

    kassapassa, bhikkhave, bhagavato arahato sammāsambuddhassa brahmadatto nāma brāhmaṇo pitā ahosi. dhanavatī nāma brāhmaṇī mātā ahosi janetti.

  • DN 19

    sattabhū brahmadatto ca, vessabhū bharato saha, reṇu dve dhataraṭṭhā ca, tadāsuṃ satta bhāradhā'ti.

Encyclopedia

10 entries

  • 迦屍國王,曾攻滅憍薩羅並殺死其王提健地及王后,後與提健地之子提健覺修好,歸還其父的王國並將女兒嫁給他。

  • A king of Kāsi who conquered Kosala and killed its king Dīghīti and his queen, but later made peace with their son Dīghāvu, restoring his father’s kingdom and giving him his own daughter in marriage.

Kd 10.2.3.2
  • 阿說迦人的國王,勒紐的好友,摩訶勾頻陀分割閻浮提予七位友人時,他獲得以坡擔那為都城的阿說迦國。

  • A king of the Assakas and friend of Reṇu, who received the Assaka kingdom with its capital at Potana when Mahāgovinda divided Jambudīpa among the seven friends.

  • 《本生經》註疏中波羅奈歷代諸王的傳統王朝稱號,有時也用作個人名,其中包括賓祇耶尼之夫,後被認定即古納拉。

  • The traditional dynastic name given in the Jātaka commentary to numerous kings of Bārāṇasī, and also used at times as a personal name, including for the husband of Piṅgiyānī who was later identified with Kuṇāla.

  • 憍薩羅國王之子,因目睹佛陀威儀而出家證得阿羅漢果,以忍受一婆羅門屢次辱罵而聞名,最終感化對方出家。

  • A son of the king of Kosala who entered the Order after witnessing the Buddha’s majesty and became an Arahant renowned for enduring a brahmin’s repeated abuse with patience, eventually converting him.

Thag 6.12
  • 統治哈提普拉的三十六代王朝的開創者,其祖先此前統治迦毘羅那伽拉。

  • The founder of a dynasty of thirty-six kings who ruled at Hatthipura, whose ancestors had earlier ruled at Kapilanagara.

  • 波羅奈國王,迦葉佛時代曾為林居比丘,其不貞王后的情夫興兵來襲,他在戰場上修慈心而成為辟支佛。

  • A king of Bārāṇasī, formerly a forest monk in Kassapa Buddha’s time, who developed loving-kindness on the battlefield after his unfaithful wife’s lover attacked his kingdom, and thereby became a Pacceka Buddha.

  • 婆羅門,迦葉佛之父。

  • A brahmin who was the father of Kassapa Buddha.

  • 遊方者蘇毗耶的弟子,他與老師的一段對話促成佛陀宣說《梵網經》。

  • A pupil of the wanderer Suppiya whose conversation with his teacher occasioned the Buddha’s teaching known as the Brahmajāla Sutta.

  • 一位比丘,有時被認為是迦旃延巴利語法諸經的例句提供者。

  • A monk sometimes credited with supplying the illustrative examples to the aphorisms of Kaccāyana’s Pāli grammar.

  • 一條參見條目,指向同名的其他諸王,如 Ekaputtika、Catumāsika、Cūḷani 及 Sāgara 各條,以及 Brahmadatta-kumāra 條。

  • A cross-reference entry pointing to other bearers of this name, such as Ekaputtika, Catumāsika, Cūḷani, and Sāgara, and to the entry Brahmadatta-kumāra.

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