Pāli Dictionary

kumuda1

Part of speech

noun · masculine

cosmology

  • 非常に大きな数の名（10の105乗）

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

  • （注釈）クムダの期間だけ留まる無間地獄の一区分

  • (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

  • 白睡蓮

  • 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

  • 地獄の一つ、より正確には十二のパドゥマ地獄に相当する長大な苦しみの期間であり、コーカーリカ比丘がそこに転生した

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

Kumuda2
Person

  • ソービタ仏が在家者としての最後の生涯を送った三つの宮殿のうちの一つ

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

Kumuda3
Place

  • ピヤダッシー仏の敵であったソーナが、象ドーナムカを使って命を狙ったが失敗に終わった都市

  • 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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