Pāli Dictionary

eṇi

Part of speech

noun · feminine

Synonyms


general

  • antilope noire, une espèce d’antilope

  • a kind of black antelope; a species noted for its graceful legs, as in the epithet ‘eṇi-jaṅgha’ (one of the 32 marks of a great being)

  • MN 91

    eṇijaṅgho kho pana so bhavaṃ gotamo, idam'pi tassa bhoto gotamassa mahāpurisassa mahāpurisalakkhaṇaṃ bhavati.

  • SN 1.30

    eṇijaṅghaṃ kisaṃ vīraṃ, app'āhāraṃ alolupaṃ, sīhaṃ'v'ekacaraṃ nāgaṃ, kāmesu anapekkhinaṃ, upasaṅkamma pucchāma, kathaṃ dukkhā pamuccatī'ti

Encyclopedia

Enī
Placeapproximate
  • Une rivière sur les rives de laquelle l’ascète Kesava, une existence antérieure du Brahmā Baka, libéra les habitants d’un village pillé — l’une des bonnes actions qui lui valut de renaître dans le monde de Brahma, comme raconté dans le Bakabrahma Jātaka.

  • A river on whose banks the ascetic Kesava, a former birth of the Brahmā Baka, freed the inhabitants of a raided village — one of the good deeds that earned him rebirth in the Brahma-world, as told in the Bakabrahma Jātaka.

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