Pāli Dictionary

kisāgotamī

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Part of speech

noun · feminine

monastic

  • キサーゴータミー、阿羅漢比丘尼、仏陀の大弟子。粗末な衣を着ることにおいて第一とされた。芥子種の物語で知られる

  • Kisāgotamī, an arahant nun, great disciple of the Buddha, declared foremost among nuns in wearing coarse robes; known for the story of the mustard seed

  • SN 5.3

    atha kho kisāgotamiyā bhikkhuniyā etadahosi, ko nu khv'āyaṃ manusso vā amanusso vā gāthaṃ bhāsatī'ti? atha kho kisāgotamiyā bhikkhuniyā etadahosi, māro kho ayaṃ pāpimā mama bhayaṃ chambhitattaṃ lomahaṃsaṃ uppādetu'kāmo samādhimhā cāvetu'kāmo gāthaṃ bhāsatī'ti.

  • AN 1.246

    etadaggaṃ, bhikkhave, mama sāvikānaṃ bhikkhunīnaṃ lūkhacīvaradharānaṃ yadidaṃ kisāgotamī.

Encyclopedia

4 entries

Kisāgotamī
Person

  • 粗末な衣を着ることにおいて比丘たちの中で第一と称された阿羅漢で、死んだ我が子への悲嘆に応え、仏陀が死者を出したことのない家からケシの種を探させた物語で有名

  • An Arahant declared foremost among monks in the wearing of coarse robes, famous for the story in which the Buddha, in response to her grief over her dead child, sent her to find a mustard seed from a house untouched by death.

SN 5.3Thig 10
Kisāgotamī2
Place

  • 王子シッダッタが息子の誕生後に車で戻るのを見て、その光景がもたらした安らぎを讃える偈を口にしたカピラヴァットゥのシャーキヤ族の乙女で、彼女の「ニッブタ」という言葉に心を打たれた王子は感謝のしるしに真珠の首飾りを贈った

  • A Sakyan maiden of Kapilavatthu who, seeing Prince Siddhattha return in his chariot after his son’s birth, exclaimed a verse praising the peace such a sight brought her, prompting the prince, struck by her word ‘nibbuta,’ to send her a pearl necklace in gratitude.

Kisāgotamī3
Person

  • プッサ仏が最後の在家生活を送っていた時の妻で、その息子アーナンダの母

  • The wife of Phussa Buddha during his last life as a layman, and mother of his son Ānanda.

Kisāgotamī4
Person

  • ティッサ仏の主要な在家女性支援者の一人

  • One of the chief women lay supporters of Tissa Buddha.

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