Pāli Dictionary

kosiya1

kosiyastem

Part of speech

noun · masculine

Root

kus1call; insult

cosmology

  • Kosiya — the clan-name of Sakka, king of the devas; an epithet used to address him

  • MN 37

    yathā kathaṃ pana kho, kosiya, bhagavā saṃkhittena taṇhāsaṅkhayavimuttiṃ abhāsi? sādhu mayam'pi etissā kathāya bhāgino assāma savanāyā'ti.

  • DN 21

    atha kho bhagavā sakkaṃ devānam'indaṃ etadavoca, acchariyamidaṃ āyasmato kosiyassa, abbhutamidaṃ āyasmato kosiyassa tāva bahukiccassa bahukaraṇīyassa yadidaṃ idh'āgamanan'ti.

kosiya2

kosarootiyasuffix

Part of speech

noun · neuter

general

  • silk; silk cloth

kosi

approximate

kusrootisuffix

via inflected form kosiyā · instrumental singular / dative singular / ablative singular / genitive singular / locative singular

Part of speech

noun · feminine

general

  • sheath; scabbard (of a sword or dagger)

  • MN 77

    seyyathā vā pan'udāyi, puriso asiṃ kosiyā pabbāheyya, tassa evam'assa, ayaṃ asi, ayaṃ kosi, añño asi aññā kosi, kosiyātv'eva asi pabbāḷho'ti.

Encyclopedia

6 entries

Kosiya
Person

  • The name of a brahmin clan, counted among the lower clans in the Vinaya yet also regarded as high status since it was Sakka’s own clan-name.

Ja 226
Kosiya2
Other

  • See Macchari-Kosiya.

Kosiya3
Person

  • An Arahant of a brahmin family in Magadha who, as a gate-keeper of Bandhumatī in the time of Vipassī Buddha, once gave him a piece of sugar-cane, and who later attained Arahantship after listening to Sāriputta.

Kosiya4
Other

  • See Kosika (1).

Kosiya5
Other

  • See Nanda Māṇava.

Kosika
Placematched via “Kosiya”

  • A rock near the Himalayas where the ascetic Nārada Kassapa had his hermitage.

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