Pāli Dictionary

devaputta

Part of speech

noun · masculine

cosmology

  • männliche Gottheit; Göttersohn

  • male deity; a male divinity; (literally) son of a god

  • DN 21

    idhā'pi maṃ evaṃ jānanti gopako devaputto gopako devaputto'ti.

  • AN 4.45

    atha kho rohitasso devaputto abhikkantāya rattiyā abhikkantavaṇṇo kevalakappaṃ jetavanaṃ obhāsetvā yena bhagavā ten'upasaṅkami, upasaṅkamitvā bhagavantaṃ abhivādetvā ekam'antaṃ aṭṭhāsi.

Encyclopedia

Devaputta
Place

  • Eine Stadt in Indien, fünfzehn Meilen von Pāṭaliputta entfernt, Standort des Klosters Sīhakumbha und Geburtsort von Rūpadevī und Kañcanadevī, wo einst die Almosenschalen-Reliquie des Buddha aufbewahrt und gefeiert wurde und deren König zur Zeit Asokas denselben Namen wie die Stadt trug

  • A city in India, fifteen leagues from Pāṭaliputta, site of the Sīhakumbha monastery and the birthplace of Rūpadevī and Kañcanadevī, where the Buddha’s Bowl Relic was once kept and celebrated, and whose king in the time of Asoka bore the same name as the city.

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