Pāli Dictionary
approximate

Compound structure

analyses: 2

devadutasautta
  1. deva

    a deity; a god; a celestial being

  2. du

    (prefix) bad, difficult, wrong, ill

  3. tasa

    trembling, frightened; moving, mobile; (fig.) craving, unsettled beings

  4. utta

    said; spoken; uttered (= vutta)

devadutoasiutta
  1. deva

    a deity; a god; a celestial being

  2. dutodū

    one who harms; one who injures; one who is treacherous

  3. asi

    sword; knife; weapon; scimitar

  4. utta

    said; spoken; uttered (= vutta)

Encyclopedia

Devadūta Sutta
Sutta

  • A discourse on the three, or in a longer version five, divine messengers, signs of old age, illness, and death, warning that those who ignore them face torment in the great hells, later used by missionary elders to teach in Sri Lanka.

AN 3.36MN 130

Found an error in the dictionary?