Pāli Dictionary

kumuda1

Part of speech

noun · masculine

cosmology

  • a very high numeral (traditionally 10^105, or twenty ahaha)

  • (commentarial) a division of the Avīci hell, named for the duration (a ‘kumuda’) one must remain there

  • SN 6.10

    seyyathā'pi, bhikkhu, vīsati ababā nirayā, evam'eko aṭaṭo nirayo. seyyathā'pi, bhikkhu, vīsati aṭaṭā nirayā, evam'eko ahaho nirayo. seyyathā'pi, bhikkhu, vīsati ahahā nirayā, evam'eko kumudo nirayo.

kumuda2

Part of speech

noun · neuter

general

  • white water-lily (Nymphaea nouchali); the lotus plant

  • Dhp 285

    ucchinda sineham'attano, kumudaṃ sāradikaṃ'va, santimaggam'eva brūhaya, nibbānaṃ sugatena desitaṃ.

Encyclopedia

3 entries

Kumuda
Person

  • A hell, or more precisely a vast span of suffering equal to twelve Padumas, into which the monk Kokālika was reborn.

Kumuda2
Person

  • One of the three palaces occupied by the Buddha Sobhita during his final life as a layman.

Kumuda3
Place

  • A city where Soṇa, an enemy of the Buddha Piyadassī, made an unsuccessful attempt on his life using the elephant Doṇamukha.

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