Pāli Dictionary

Compound structure

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dhanaṃjaya
  1. dhanaṃdhana

    wealth; riches; money; treasure; property

  2. jaya

    victory; conquest; winning

Encyclopedia

8 entries

  • A king of Bārāṇasī whose story is told in the Kālabāhu Jātaka.

  • A king of Indapatta in the Kuru country, father of Dhanañjaya Koravya.

  • The Koravya king of the Kurus at Indapatta, whose story appears in the Sambhava Jātaka and who is identified with a past life of Ānanda.

  • Another Koravya king of the Kurus at Indapatta, whose minister was Vidhurapaṇḍita and who lost him in a game of dice to Puṇṇaka, as told in the Vidhurapaṇḍita Jātaka; also identified with a past life of Ānanda.

  • A wealthy merchant of Bhaddiyanagara, son of Meṇḍaka and father of Visākhā, counted among the five most meritorious lay contemporaries of the Buddha and founder of the city of Sāketa.

  • One of the chief lay supporters of Phussa Buddha.

  • A pleasure garden near Dhaññavatī where Paduma Buddha delivered his first sermon and where Nārada Buddha was later born.

  • A city in the time of Sikhī Buddha, where the Buddha converted the householder Dhanapālaka.

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