Pāli Dictionary

janavasabha

janastemvasabhasuffix

Part of speech

noun · masculine

cosmology

  • Janavasabha: nom d’un yakkha (une renaissance du roi Bimbisāra) qui se présente devant le Bouddha en tant que messager du roi-deva Vessavaṇa; personnage principal du Janavasabha-sutta (DN 18).

  • 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

  • Un yakkha, une renaissance ultérieure du roi Bimbisāra, qui apparut devant le Bouddha en tant que messager pour relater une assemblée des dieux dont il avait entendu parler par Vessavaṇa, dans le discours qui porte son nom.

  • 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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