Pāli Dictionary

mahādhana

mahāstemdhanastem

Part of speech

noun · neuter


general

  • great wealth; vast fortune

Encyclopedia

5 entries

  • A wealthy young man of Bārāṇasī who squandered his inheritance through drink and was reduced to begging, cited by the Buddha as a lost opportunity for greatness.

  • A merchant of Sāvatthi who avoided an ambush by five hundred thieves by delaying his journey after taking monks along for protection and guidance.

  • A merchant of Bārāṇasī who, warned by the Buddha that he had only seven days left to live, became a Stream-winner before his death and was reborn in the Tusita heaven.

  • A wealthy man of Rājagaha whose spoiled, uneducated son squandered the family fortune, turned to thievery, and was executed, a story later connected with the courtesan Sulasā and Mahā-Moggallāna.

  • The name shared by four kings, sixty-five world-cycles ago, who were past lives of the monk Tiṇasantharadāyaka.

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