Pāli Dictionary

devaputta

Part of speech

noun · masculine

cosmology

  • 天子；天界的男性众生；（字面义）天之子

  • 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

  • 印度的一座城市，距波吒厘子城十五由旬，狮子瓮寺即位于此，也是茹波提毘与建左那提毘的出生地；佛钵舍利曾一度供奉于此并举行庆典，阿育王时代此城的国王与城名相同。

  • 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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