Pāli Dictionary

eṇi

approximate

Part of speech

noun · feminine

Synonyms

eṇeyya

general

  • कृष्णमृग (काला मृग), एक प्रकार का हिरण

  • 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

  • एक नदी, जिसके तट पर तपस्वी केसव, ब्रह्मा बक के पूर्वजन्म, ने लूटे गए एक गाँव के निवासियों को मुक्त कराया — यह उन सत्कर्मों में से एक था जिसने उसे ब्रह्मलोक में जन्म दिलाया, जैसा कि बकब्रह्म जातक में वर्णित है।

  • 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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