Pāli Dictionary

janavasabha

janastemvasabhasuffix

Part of speech

noun · masculine

cosmology

  • Janavasabha: name of a yakkha (a rebirth of King Bimbisāra) who visits the Buddha as a messenger of the deva-king Vessavaṇa; subject of the Janavasabha Sutta (DN 18).

  • DN 18

    atha kho, ānanda, antarahito yakkho saddam'anussāvesi, janavasabho ahaṃ bhagavā, janavasabho ahaṃ sugatā'ti. abhijānāsi no tvaṃ, ānanda, ito pubbe evarūpaṃ nāmadheyyaṃ sutaṃ yadidaṃ janavasabho'ti?

Encyclopedia

Janavasabha
Person

  • A yakkha, a later rebirth of King Bimbisāra, who appeared before the Buddha as a messenger to relate an assembly of the gods he had heard about from Vessavaṇa, in the discourse named for him.

DN 18

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