Pāli Dictionary

khemā

khemastemāsuffix

Part of speech

noun · feminine

Root

khi1live; abide peacefully

Synonyms


general

  • name of several women, most notably Khemā Therī, the Buddha’s foremost female disciple in great wisdom; also name of various queens and laywomen

  • Thig 6.3

    daharā tvaṃ rūpavatī, aham'pi daharo yuvā, pañc'aṅgikena turiyena, ehi kheme ramāmase.

  • AN 1.236

    etadaggaṃ, bhikkhave, mama sāvikānaṃ bhikkhunīnaṃ mahāpaññānaṃ yadidaṃ khemā.

cosmology

  • name of a river flowing from the Himavā

khema

approximate

khiroot*masuffix

Part of speech

adjective

Root

khi1live; abide peacefully

Synonyms

Antonyms


general

  • safe; secure; tranquil; at peace; free from danger

  • Thag 3.3

    susukhaṃ vata nibbānaṃ, sammāsambuddhadesitaṃ, asokaṃ virajaṃ khemaṃ, yattha dukkhaṃ nirujjhatī'ti.

  • MN 22

    seyyathā'pi, bhikkhave, puriso addhānamaggappaṭipanno. so passeyya mahantaṃ udak'aṇṇavaṃ, orimaṃ tīraṃ sāsaṅkaṃ sappaṭibhayaṃ, pārimaṃ tīraṃ khemaṃ appaṭibhayaṃ.

doctrine

  • (as noun) safety; security; peace; sanctuary; (epithet of Nibbāna) the Serene; final liberation

Encyclopedia

24 entries

Khemā
Person
  • An Arahant declared foremost in wisdom among the Buddha’s women disciples, who as chief consort of King Bimbisāra was led to renounce her vanity over her beauty after seeing an illusory nymph age and die before the Buddha.

SN 44.1
Khemā2
Person
  • One of the two chief women disciples of Dhammadassī Buddha.

  • A lay woman disciple named in a commentarial list, most likely the same person as the chief Arahant disciple of that name.

Khemā4
Person
  • A queen of King Brahmadatta of Bārāṇasī who dreamed of a golden peacock teaching the Dhamma, a wish that in this version of the story was never fulfilled, as told in the Mora Jātaka.

Khemā5
Person
  • The chief queen of King Brahmadatta of Bārāṇasī who dreamed of a golden deer teaching the Dhamma, a wish that was fulfilled, as told in the Rurumigarāja Jātaka.

Khemā6
Person
  • A chief queen of King Brahmadatta of Bārāṇasī whose story parallels that of another queen of the same name, told in another version of the Mora Jātaka.

Khemā7
Person
  • A queen consort of King Brahmadatta of Bārāṇasī whose story parallels that of another queen of the same name, identified with the Therī Khemā, as told in the Rohaṇamiga Jātaka.

Khemā8
Person
  • A queen consort of King Seyya of Bārāṇasī who dreamed of a golden swan, identified with the Therī Khemā, as told in the Mahāhaṃsa Jātaka.

Khemā9
Place
  • A river flowing from the Himavā mountains.

Khema
Placeapproximate
  • The city in which Sumana Buddha was born.

Khema2
Placeapproximate
  • The city in which Tissa Buddha was born.

Khema3
Placeapproximate
  • The city in which Kakusandha Buddha was born, and the capital of King Khemaṅkara.

Khema4
Personapproximate
  • A warrior who was the Bodhisatta in the time of Kakusandha Buddha, giving alms to him and his monks and later helping bring a branch of his bodhi-tree to Sri Lanka.

Khema5
Personapproximate
  • The deer-park near Bandhumatī where Vipassī Buddha was born and gave his first teachings, identified with the present-day Isipatana.

Khema6
Personapproximate
  • The pleasance near Khemavatī where Kakusandha Buddha died, also his birthplace.

Khema7
Personapproximate
  • A pleasance near Usabhavatī where Vessabhū Buddha died.

Khema8
Placeapproximate
  • A lake north of Bārāṇasī built by King Seyya, featured in the Mahāhaṃsa Jātaka.

Khema9
Personapproximate
  • A handsome nephew of Anāthapiṇḍika repeatedly accused of adultery, whom the Buddha, at his uncle’s request, taught to abandon his ways.

Khema10
Personapproximate
  • A devaputta who visited the Buddha at Jetavana and spoke verses on the value of the good life.

Khema11
Personapproximate
  • An Arahant referred to in connection with a discourse called the Khema Sutta.

AN 6.49
Khema12
Personapproximate
  • A monk of Sri Lanka, pupil of Dhammapālita of Rohaṇa, versed in the Tipiṭaka and named among those who transmitted the Buddha’s teaching there.

AN 6.49
Khema13
Personapproximate
  • A teacher, probably of Sri Lanka, author of the grammatical treatise Khemappakaraṇa.

Khema14
Otherapproximate
  • An alternate name referring to Khemaka (3).

Khemaka3
Personapproximatematched via “Khema”
  • A fowler, identified with Channa, who caught a golden swan from Cittakūṭa at the request of King Seyya, as told in the Mahāhaṃsa Jātaka.

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