Pāli Dictionary

lakkhaṇa

lakkhrootanasuffix

Part of speech

noun

Root

lakkh8mark

Synonyms

guṇa

general

  • a sign; mark; characteristic; distinguishing feature; a prognosticative mark; a quality

  • Thig 14.1

    muttā ca tato sā bhikkhunī, agamī buddhavarassa santikaṃ, passiya varapuññalakkhaṇaṃ, cakkhu āsi yathā purāṇakan'ti.

  • MN 91

    dvīsu mahāpurisalakkhaṇesu kaṅkhati vicikicchati n'ādhimuccati na sampasīdati, kos'ohite ca vatthaguyhe, pahūtajivhatāya ca.

lakkha

approximate

lakkhrootasuffix

via inflected form lakkhāna · genitive plural

Part of speech

noun · neuter

Root

lakkh8mark

Synonyms

akkhaṇa

general

  • a mark; a target (for shooting)

  • a stake at gambling

  • a price-tag; mark of value used in reckoning accounts

  • a hundred thousand (a high numeral)

  • Pv 38

    vassāni satasahassāni, ghoso suyyati tāva'd'e, lakkho eso mahārāja, satabhāgavassakoṭiyo.

Encyclopedia

4 entries

Lakkhaṇa
Person

  • A son of King Dasaratha and brother of Rāma, Sītā, and Bharata in the Dasaratha Jātaka, identified as a past life of Sāriputta.

Lakkhaṇa2
Person

  • One of the eight brahmins who recognized the auspicious marks at the Buddha’s birth, and, according to the Milindapañha, also one of his earliest teachers.

Lakkhaṇa3
Person

  • A monk who lived with Mahā-Moggallāna on Gijjhakūṭa and, on noticing his companion smile mysteriously while going for alms, later learned from the Buddha that Moggallāna had been seeing hungry ghosts invisible to himself.

Lakkhaṇa4
Person

  • A deer, son of the Bodhisatta, identified as a past life of Sāriputta, whose story is told in the Lakkhaṇa Jātaka.

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