Pāli Dictionary

eṇi

approximate

Part of speech

noun · feminine

Synonyms

eṇeyya

general

  • schwarze Antilope, eine Antilopenart

  • 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
Place

  • Ein Fluss, an dessen Ufern der Asket Kesava, eine frühere Geburt des Brahmā Baka, die Bewohner eines überfallenen Dorfes befreite — eine der guten Taten, die ihm die Wiedergeburt in der Brahma-Welt einbrachten, wie im Bakabrahma-Jātaka erzählt.

  • 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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