Pāli Dictionary

girimānanda

giriṃstemānandastem

Part of speech

noun · masculine


general

  • ギリマーナンダ;阿羅漢長老(ギリマーナンダ経の主人公)

  • Girimānanda, an arahant elder monk (subject of the Girimānanda Sutta, AN 10.60)

  • AN 10.60

    ekaṃ samayaṃ bhagavā sāvatthiyaṃ viharati jetavane anāthapiṇḍikassa ārāme. tena kho pana samayena āyasmā girimānando ābādhiko hoti dukkhito bāḷhagilāno.

Encyclopedia

  • 王に忘れ去られ、王が庵室を建ててくれるまで野外で暮らしていたビンビサーラ王の祭司の息子で、後に阿羅漢果を得たが、病に伏した際にブッダはアーナンダに無常の十の想いと関連する観想を彼のために誦えさせた。

  • The son of King Bimbisāra’s chaplain who, after being forgotten and left to live in the open until the king built him a hermitage, became an Arahant, and for whom, when later ill, the Buddha had Ānanda recite the ten perceptions of impermanence and related contemplations.

AN 10.60

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