Pāli Dictionary

eṇi

approximate

Part of speech

noun · feminine

Synonyms

eṇeyya

general

  • 검은 영양의 일종

  • 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

  • 고행자 케사바(범천 바카의 전생)가 그 강변에서 습격당한 마을 주민들을 구해준 강. 『바카브라흐마 본생담』에 전하는 대로, 그가 범천계에 태어나게 한 선행 중 하나였다.

  • 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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