Pāli Dictionary

kuru

Part of speech

noun · masculine

general

  • Kuru (Name eines alten Landes/Volkes, wo der Buddha lehrte, z. B. in Kammāsadhamma)

  • Kuru, name of an ancient country/people (in whose territory the Buddha taught, e.g. at Kammāsadhamma)

  • MN 82

    taṃ kiṃ maññasi, mahārāja, phītaṃ kuruṃ ajjhāvasasī'ti? evaṃ, bho raṭṭhapāla, phītaṃ kuruṃ ajjhāvasāmī'ti.

kurū

approximate

Part of speech

noun · masculine

cosmology

  • die Kurus; die Bewohner des Landes Kuru

  • the Kurus; the people of the Kuru country

  • MN 75

    evaṃ me sutaṃ, ekaṃ samayaṃ bhagavā kurūsu viharati kammāsadhammaṃ nāma kurūnaṃ nigamo, bhāradvājagottassa brāhmaṇassa agy'āgāre tiṇasanthārake.

Encyclopedia

Kuru
Place

  • Eines der sechzehn großen Staaten des alten Indien, dessen Hauptstadt Indapatta von einer Dynastie regiert wurde, die ihre Abstammung auf die Linie des Bodhisatta Sutasoma zurückführte.

  • One of the sixteen great countries of ancient India, whose capital Indapatta was ruled by a dynasty tracing descent from the Bodhisatta Sutasoma’s line.

DN 15DN 22MN 82MN 106AN 3.70AN 10.20

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