Pāli Dictionary

chaddanta1

chaḷprefixdantastem

Part of speech

adjective


general

  • (of an elephant) having six tusks

chaddanta2

chaḷprefixdantastem

Part of speech

noun · neuter


cosmology

  • Chaddanta, name of a great lake in the Himalayan region

chaddanta3

chaḷprefixdantastem

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

  • A forest in the Himavā containing Lake Mandākinī, where the elder Aññāta-Koṇḍañña lived in retirement for twelve years, attended by elephants.

  • One 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.

  • The 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.

  • The 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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