Pāli Dictionary

kesava

kesastemvantsuffix

Part of speech

noun · masculine

general

  • name of a man in a Petavatthu story; also (lit. ‘of beautiful hair’) an epithet of the god Vāsudeva/Viṣṇu

  • Pv 18

    tassa taṃ vacanaṃ sutvā, rohiṇeyyassa kesavo, taramānarūpo vuṭṭhāsi, bhātusokena aṭṭito.

Encyclopedia

3 entries

Kesava
Person

  • An ascetic in the Himālayas whose story is told in the Kesava Jātaka and who is identified with Baka Brahmā, sometimes addressed as Kesi.

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Kesava2
Person

  • An ascetic also called Nārada who paid homage to the Buddha Atthadassī and was a previous birth of the elder Paviṭṭha, likely identical with Ekadaṃsanīya Thera.

Kesava3
Other

  • Another name for Vāsudeva, said to be so called for his beautiful hair.

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