Pāli Dictionary
Part of speech
noun · neuter
cosmology
Chaddanta, name of a great lake in the Himalayan region
Part of speech
noun · masculine
general
Chaddanta, name of a legendary tribe of six-tusked elephants; also the Bodhisatta elephant-king of the Chaddanta Jātaka
Encyclopedia
4 entries
Chaddanta
PlaceA forest in the Himavā containing Lake Mandākinī, where the elder Aññāta-Koṇḍañña lived in retirement for twelve years, attended by elephants.
Chaddanta2
PlaceOne of the seven great lakes of the Himavā, famed for its jewel-like clear centre ringed by seven bands of lilies and seven mountain ranges.
Chaddanta3
PersonThe highest-ranked clan of elephants, into which the Bodhisatta was once born as king, said to possess the strength of ten thousand million men each.
Chaddanta4
PersonThe Bodhisatta born as the pure white king of a clan of eight thousand elephants, whose tusks were cut off at the instigation of a jealous former queen reborn as a human consort.
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