Pāli Dictionary

deva

divrootasuffix

Part of speech

noun · masculine

Root

div3照;耀

Synonyms


cosmology

  • 天;天神;天人

  • a deity; a god; a celestial being

  • Dhp 224

    saccaṃ bhaṇe na kujjheyya, dajjā appam'pi yācito, etehi tīhi ṭhānehi, gacche devāna santike.

  • SN 42.3

    yo so yodh'ājīvo saṅgāme ussahati vāyamati, tam'enaṃ ussahantaṃ vāyamantaṃ pare hananti pariyāpādenti, so kāyassa bhedā paraṃ maraṇā parajitānaṃ devānaṃ sahabyataṃ upapajjatī'ti.

general

  • (尊稱)陛下;大王;天(對國王的敬稱)

  • (as a title) Your/His Majesty; my lord (address to a king)

  • SN 2.23

    devassa kho dānaṃ dīyati, amhākaṃ dānaṃ na dīyati. sādhu mayam'pi devaṃ nissāya dānāni dadeyyāma, puññāni kareyyāmā'ti.

  • 天;天空;(擬人)雨神;雨

  • the sky; the heavens; (personified) the rain-god, the rain

  • Thag 1.51

    vassati devo yathā sugītaṃ

  • Thag 2.35

    devo ca vassati devo ca gaḷagaḷāyati, ekako c'āhaṃ bherave bile viharāmi, tassa mayhaṃ ekakassa bherave bile viharato, n'atthi bhayaṃ vā chambhitattaṃ vā lomahaṃso vā.

  • AN 10.15

    seyyathā'pi, bhikkhave, saradasamaye viddhe vigatavalāhake deve ādicco nabhaṃ abbhussakkamāno sabbaṃ ākāsagataṃ tamagataṃ abhivihacca bhāsate ca tapate ca virocati ca

Encyclopedia

16 entries

Deva
Person
  • 過去善生佛(Sujāta)的上首弟子,為一位祭司之子,與其友善見(Sudassana)共同聆聽該佛的首次說法。

  • The leading disciple of the past Buddha Sujāta, a chaplain’s son who received the Buddha’s first discourse together with his friend Sudassana.

Deva2
Person
  • 毗樓博叉(Virūpakkha)之子、迦羅建尼(Kāḷakaṇṇi)之兄的一位年少天神。

  • A young deity, son of Virūpakkha and brother of Kāḷakaṇṇi.

Deva3
Person
  • 居於伽波伽村的一位比丘,其教說令沃哈利迦帝須王大為歡喜,因而為他修復了五座建築。

  • A monk resident at Kappakagāma whose teaching so pleased King Vohārikatissa that the king restored five buildings for him.

Deva4
Person
  • 斯里蘭卡的一位長老,優波犀那(Upasena)應其請求而撰寫《大義釋》註釋。

  • A Sri Lankan elder at whose request the monk Upasena composed the commentary on the Mahā Niddesa.

Deva5
Person
  • 斯里蘭卡的一位長老,《教法源流》將《須彌山頂注》歸於其名下,但此作一般仍歸於韋提訶(Vedeha)所著。

  • A Sri Lankan elder to whom the Gandhavaṃsa attributes authorship of the Sumanakūṭa-vaṇṇanā, though the work is generally ascribed instead to Vedeha.

Deva6
Person
  • 吉帝斯里梅伽王的一位將軍,駐守巴達羅塔利,曾隨拉那瓦利(Ratnāvalī)一同將年幼的波羅迦羅摩巴忽帶至王前。

  • A general of King Kittisirimegha, stationed at Badalatthalī, who accompanied Ratnāvalī when the young Parakkamabāhu was brought to the king.

Deva7
Person
  • 伽闍婆睺二世麾下一位號為楞伽主(Laṅkādhināyaka)的將軍。

  • A general, titled Laṅkādhināyaka, who served King Gajabāhu II.

Deva8
Person
  • 波羅迦羅摩巴忽一世的一位將軍,曾參與對伽闍婆睺的戰役,一度被囚後獲救,繼而擊敗摩那跋羅那與摩醯陀,最終落入敵手,國王未能將其救回。

  • A general of Parakkamabāhu I who campaigned against Gajabāhu, was imprisoned and later freed, then won victories against Mānābharana and Mahinda before falling into enemy hands, from which the king was unable to rescue him.

Deva9
Person
  • 號為楞伽補羅(Laṅkāpura)的將軍,可能與先前被俘的同名將領是同一人,曾參與僧伽羅遠征南印度的戰役,攻下羅賈那城。

  • A general known as Laṅkāpura, probably the same person as the general Deva captured in an earlier campaign, who fought in the Sinhalese expedition to South India, capturing the city of Rājinā.

Deva10
Person
  • 阿耶斯曼多(Āyasmanta)的一位大臣,奉命前往瓦利伽摩建造一座寺院。

  • A minister of Āyasmanta who was sent to build a monastery at Valligāma.

Deva11
Person
  • 毗提沙山(Vedisagiri)的一位富商,其女提維(Devī)在阿育王赴優禪尼途中借宿其家後,成為阿育王之妻。

  • A millionaire of Vedisagiri whose daughter Devī became the wife of Asoka after he stayed at her father’s house en route to Ujjeni.

Deva12
Person
  • 提婆村的一位大臣,曾施食予一隻飢餓的狗,因此福報轉生於同村,後出家,於饑荒中因福報倖免於難,證得阿羅漢果,並受一位樹神照顧。

  • A minister of Devagāma who once fed a starving dog, was reborn in the same village as a result, later entered the Order, survived a famine through good fortune, and became an Arahant looked after by a tree deity.

Devā
Personapproximate
  • 泛指被視為神聖的眾生,上至佛陀與阿羅漢,下至被尊為神的國王,並依此分為居於諸天界的種種天眾。

  • A general term for beings regarded as divine, ranging from kings honoured as gods to Buddhas and Arahants, and further classified into the various orders of celestial beings inhabiting the heavenly worlds.

Devā2
Personapproximate
  • 斯里蘭卡國王優陀耶一世(Udaya I)之女,嫁與 Ādipāda Dāṭhāsiva 之子摩哂陀(Mahinda)。

  • A daughter of King Udaya I of Sri Lanka who married Mahinda, son of the Ādipāda Dāṭhāsiva.

Devā3
Personapproximate
  • 斯里蘭卡國王 Dappula 二世之女,嫁與 Kittaggabodhi。

  • A daughter of King Dappula II of Sri Lanka who married Kittaggabodhi.

Devā4
Personapproximate
  • 斯里蘭卡國王迦葉五世(Kassapa V)之妻、大將 Sakka 之母,曾為林居僧建以己名命名的精舍,並莊嚴 Maricavaṭṭi 的佛像。

  • The wife of King Kassapa V of Sri Lanka and mother of the general Sakka, who built a forest-monk monastery named after herself and adorned the Buddha image at Maricavaṭṭi.

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