Pāli Dictionary

eṇi

approximate

Part of speech

noun · feminine

Synonyms

eṇeyya

general

  • 一種黑羚羊（伊尼鹿）；佛教三十二相之一「伊尼鹿腨相」（腿如羚羊）的典故用詞

  • 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

  • 一條河流，梵天婆迦的前生、苦行者雞舍婆曾在其岸邊解救一座遭劫掠村莊的居民，此善行是他轉生梵天界的原因之一，事見《婆迦梵天本生》。

  • 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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